This song is track 9 on the 1997 album “Like Swimming” which peaked at 67 on the Billboard 200. The song is about Sandman’s experience with love, and one woman in particular who affected him in ways he can never forget.
[Verse 1]
Tore open a package it was an empty box
No meaning to me, just an empty box
Sender was a woman
Sender was a woman
[Verse 2]
She said she's sending me everything that I
I, I never gave her before
She said, "fill it up and send it back"
"Fill it up and send it back"
[Pre-Chorus]
So I sent her back an empty box
A big mistake sent back an empty box
[Chorus]
Half in the shadows, half in the husky moonlight
And half insane just a sound
[Bridge]
I crossed into a valley, a valley so dark
That when I look back I can't see where I began
I can't see my hands
I don't even know if my eyes are open
In the morning, I was by the sea
And I swam out as far as I could swim
Until I was too tired to swim anymore
And then I floated... and tried to get my strength back
[Pre-Chorus]
And then an empty box came floating by
An empty box and I crawled inside
[Chorus]
Half in the shadows half in the husky moonlight
And half insane just a sound in the night
Half in the shadows half in the husky moonlight
And half insane just a sound
Empty Box was written by Billy Conway & Dana Colley & Mark Sandman.
Empty Box was produced by Paul Q. Kolderie & Mark Sandman.