Morphine

Morphine is the 2nd track from Michael Jackson's 1997 Blood on the Dance Floor (HIStory in the Mix) album. The songs lyrics reference Jackson's 2 year drug addiction to Valium, Xanax, Ativan, Morphine and Demerol of which he subsequently overcame. Morphine was one of the better received tracks from the album and was praised for it's use of "Trent Reznor-style sturm und clang with Bacharachian orchestral pomp" and "hard-edged rock and operatic pop" Jackson was the sole writer, arranger, producer, and contributed percussion, drums and guitar to the track. Parts of the song also included guitar work from Slash, and the 18 member Andraé Crouch choir, as well as a 46 piece orchestra featuring violin, viola, bass, cello, flute and harp. And sampled a clip from the "The Elephant Man", a 1980 film about the severely facially deformed Joseph Merrick.