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.