The Rolling stones - Sister Morphine, remastered, Musically visualised & Lyrically A-I-llustrated

Track 8 from “Sticky Fingers”. (WARNING EXPLICIT CONTENT) “Sticky Fingers” is a drug album whose songs are divided between defiant and defeated. ‘Sister Morphine’ is the darkest of them all, with the morphine addicted narrator slipping between life and death The song was partially written and first recorded by Mick Jagger’s girlfriend Marianne Faithfull. Marianne Faithfull was a young British musician who was first introduced to drugs by the members of the Rolling Stones and would go on to battle a serious heroin addiction throughout the seventies and eighties. “Wild Horses” is also inspired in part by Marianne Faithfull and her drug addiction. Lyrics Here I lie in my hospital bed Tell me, Sister Morphine, when are you coming round again? Oh, I don’t think I can wait that long Oh, you see that I’m not that strong The scream of the ambulance is sounding in my ears Tell me, Sister Morphine, how long have I been lying here? What am I doing in this place? Why d
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