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 through..' '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. 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. Can't you see, Sister Morphine, I'm just trying to score. 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. Sweet Cousin Cocaine, lay your cool hands on my head. Hey, Sister Morphine, you'd better make up my bed For you know and I know in the morning I'll be dead, And you can sit around and you can watch the clean white sheets stained red.
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RIP Marianne Faithfull. Tough as nails and eternally cool. Singular singer and underrated interpreter. Also co-wrote possibly the bleakest Rolling Stones song, and maximized that bleakness on her own version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8oW...
have seen a few references to this being a "cover": fuck that, she wrote a lot of it, which even Jagger admitted to at some point. It's his grandiose version on Sticky Fingers that's the interpretation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8oW...
Marianne Faithfull ~ Sister Morphine (Decca 45, 1969) #NowPlaying #MarianneFaithfull #MusicSky youtu.be/p8oWXbGB-7o via @YouTube
RIP Marianne Faithfull youtu.be/p8oWXbGB-7o?...
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"Sister Morphine" - song by Marianne Faithfull, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Faithfull released the original version of the song in 1969. A different version was released two years later by the Rolling Stones for their 1971 album Sticky Fingers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8oW...
RIP Marianne Faithfull #MusicSky #MarianneFaithfull youtu.be/p8oWXbGB-7o?...
So long, Marianne.
"As Tears Go By" is the chamber-pop classic, but this is the Jagger/Richards classic (which she also co-wrote) that that feels most appropriate to return to today youtu.be/p8oWXbGB-7o
Well said. Broken English was almost perfect. She was so absolutely of her time and an extraordinary singer and human being. And as for her cover of Sister Morphine…: youtube.com/watch?v=p8oW...
En pleine soirée Tramadol pour affronter la journée de cours de demain, je découvre la disparition de Marianne Faithfull. Sister Morphine est ma préférée et en adéquation avec l'état de mes lombaires destroy www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8oW...
infidels, tell it, Sister Morphine! The ghostly original version with Ry Cooder, Mick Jagger and Jack Nitzsche cut way back in 1969. Still outstanding decades later – heil to Marianne Faithfull ps – Ry totally gold on sixstring!
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Marianne Faithfull - Sister Morphine RIP #nowplaying #musicsky youtu.be/p8oWXbGB-7o?...
Yeah it's lovely, just been watching a German live TV version. She's great, writer of Sister Morphine which I was today years old when I found out, which makes the Stones version a pretty decent cover. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8oW...
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