Sister Morphine

Track 8 on Sticky Fingers: Super Deluxe Edition

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Track 8 from “Sticky Fingers”. “Sticky Fingers” is a drug album whose songs are divided between defiant and defeated. ‘Sister Morphine’ is the darkest of them all, with the… Read More

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Sister Morphine Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Here I lie in my hospital bed
Tell me, Sister Morphine, when are you coming ‘round again?
Oh, and I don't think I can wait that long
Oh, you see that I'm not that strong

[Verse 2]
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 does the doctor have no face?
Oh, I can't crawl across the floor
Ah, can't you see, Sister Morphine, I'm trying to score?

[Instrumental Break]
Hey

[Verse 3]
Well, it just goes to show things are not what they seem
Please, Sister Morphine, turn my nightmare into dreams
Oh, can't you see I'm fading fast?
And that this shot will be my last?

[Verse 4]
Sweet Cousin Cocaine, lay your cool, cool hand on my head
Ah, come on, Sister Morphine, you better make up my bed
Because you know, and I know, in the morning I'll be dead
Yeah, and you can sit around, yeah, and you can watch
All the clean white sheets stained red

[Outro]
Hey
Yeah

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Track 8 from “Sticky Fingers”.
“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.