SONG
TITLE:
SISTER
MORPHINE
PERFORMER:
THE
ROLLING
STONES
SONGWRITER:
MICK
JAGGER/KEITH
RICHARDS/MARIANNE
FAITHFULL
YEAR
OF
RELEASE:
1971
COMMENTS:
The
record
opens
quietly
with
just
simple
dramatically
expectant
acoustic
rhythm
guitar
that
provides
the
main
instrumental
sound
throughout.
Mick
comes
in
singing
the
hushed
but
urgent
plea
of
a
junkie
on
his
last
leg,
laid
out
in
a
hospital
bed
and
begging
for
one
last
fix,
even
knowing
that
it
will
kill
him.
The
melody
expresses
a
severely
narcotized
desperation.
"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."
The
whole
track
has
a
weird,
spooky
effect.
The
drug
fog
of
the
vocal
melody
combines
with
the
lyrical
conceit
that
the
narrator
is
talking
to
the
drug,
communicant
with
no
other
person.
Guest Ry
Cooder
gives
amazing
voice
to
the
pain
of
his
death
throes
with
his
slide
guitar.
Bill
and
Charlie
eventually
work
it
up
to
a
gallop
as
the
foreboding
echo
of
the
piano
chords
pounds
across
the
end
of
the
track
like
the
grim
reaper
come
to
keep
his
appointment.
They
end
up
with
something
that
sounds
utterly
otherworldly.
The
amazing
thing
is
that
this
song
is
totally
beautiful.
This
probably
doesn't
sound
sensible
based
on
the
description
in
the
last
two
paragraphs,
but
it's
undeniably
true.
They
are
describing
in
words
and
music
an
ugly,
pathetic
suicide.
You
can't
miss
the
point.
Yet
the
words
are
so
poetic,
and
the
dramatic
scene
so
eloquently
expressed
that
it
ends
up
sounding
somehow
alluring.
The
Stones
have
been
quite
reasonably
accused
of
glorifying
and
promoting
the
use
of
recreational
drugs,
but
please
don't
base
such
charges
on
this
track.
It
describes
drug
use,
but
it
also
describes
horrible
consequences.
If
this
song
makes
you
think
shooting
up
is
cool,
then
you
definitely
should
become
a
dead
junkie,
thereby
excusing
yourself
from
the
gene
pool.
"Sweet
Cousin
Cocaine,
lay
your
cool,
cool
hand
on
my
head."
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