Sister Morphine; Marianne Faithfull 1969
Sister Morphine Faithfull, Jagger, Richards Sister Morphine was an attempt. . to make art out of a pop song Peole tend to assume that Sister Morphine comes from an incident in my life, that it is a parable of a junkie s last hours. But at the time I wrote it I d only taken smack once. I was still far from becoming a junkie. Sister Morphine was in my head my feelings about what it might be like to be an addict. . By 1972, when it came out on The Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers, I was the character in the song. You have to be very careful what you write because it s a gateway, and whatever it is you ve summoned up may come Faithfull, an autobiography, 1994, Marianne Faithfull 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 I m not that strong.
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