FootOfPride on November 22, Link. Exactly right, this is clearly about a morphine or drugs-in-general addict in the hospital possibly for an overdose, or possibly trying to score some free drugs, or possibly both.
And you're right, not every classic rock song is about drugs, that's just silly, but to say that none are, especially when they are obvious as this is even worse. I think we can assume that musicians are humans, and have three-dimensional interests like the rest of us. A musician is not doomed to write only songs about one thing their whole career except maybe Christian rock groups!
That kind of thinking is reductive and usually comes from an intent to diminish the contributions of that musician for some reason or another. Memory The lyrics are just what they are. If you have ever had the fortune of unwanted visit to a class one trauma unit or trauma unit in a military hospital it is clear that these lyrics speak of death.
It also speaks of being enslaved to morphine. I had successfully escaped addiction and was living a normal life until a tree almost killed me and two other people. I remember it raining and the paramedic stabilizing for transport when he gave me something for the pain.
See my lower legbones were protruding out from my lower leg and a couple of my ribs were broken. They hit me with the morphine and the nightmare has begun General Comment Marianne Faithful had something to do with the writing of this song though she was of course not credited. This is the only song from Sticky Fingers that I don't like. JumpyJack on January 10, Link. General Comment The Stones didn't write this song for Marianne. Marianne wrote it herself, and it is simply a made-up story she thought of.
However I still believe there is a hint of Marianne in there. General Comment To those who like a happy ending: there was some sort of legal brouhaha a few years ago, the upshot of which was that Marianne Faithfull got her credit.
However, I never quite understood it, as she was already credited on my copy of the CD! I love this song. General Comment Perhaps the darkest of the Rolling Stones songs. Lyrics are obvious in meaning and were very much assisted by Marianne Faithfull's personal experience. No surprise that she had co-writing credits. General Comment this is my favorite 'drug' song. General Comment Well i have never done heroin, but a song like this makes you almost want to be adicted to the stuff.
This song is hauntingly awesome. General Comment How do you spell the sound effect when something goes right over someone's head? JumpyJack on May 28, Link. Artists - R. In any case, the person in the song is clearly no stranger to the numbness that drugs can give, but seem to be craving more than that numbness. Some lines are downright chilling and say a lot about the state of the mind of the person in the song.
And that this shot will be my last. In later years, she was able to break the habit and resume a successful career as both a singer and an actress. I liked the idea poetically. It was a really interesting vision. The writing credits for the song would be the cause of some squabble. After a legal battle Faithfull retained her rights as a co-author, acknowledged by the Virgin Records reissue of the Stones album catalogue from Sticky Fingers through Steel Wheels.
This gave Faithfull something the three other Stones had struggled to get, but probably deserved from time to time: a writing credit on a Rolling Stones song. It also shows the hoops that had to be jumped through to get this, even in a case like this which should have been relatively straightforward.
Sister Morphine highlights one of several reasons why: Jagger refused to let commercial considerations tone down his lyrics.
On this particular song, the help he had from Faithfull should not be underestimated.
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