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 deathThe 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.LyricsHere I lie in my hospital bedTell me, Sister Morphine, when are you coming round again?Oh, I don't think I can wait that longOh, you see that I'm not that strongThe scream of the ambulance is sounding in my earsTell 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 floorAh, can't you see, Sister Morphine, I'm trying to scoreWell it just goes to showThings are not what they seemPlease, Sister Morphine, turn my nightmares into dreamsOh, can't you see I'm fading fast?And that this shot will be my lastSweet Cousin Cocaine, lay your cool cool hand on my headAh, come on, Sister Morphine, you better make up my bed'Cause you know and I know in the morning I'll be deadYeah, and you can sit around, yeah and you can watch all theClean white sheets stained red