Lyric discussion by cml5c 

Cover art for Sister Morphine lyrics by Rolling Stones, The

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......

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