The Velvet Underground
Текст песни Heroin ( Live With Lou Reed 1969 )

I don't know just where I'm going
<br />But I'm gonna try for the kingdom if I can
<br />'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man
<br />When I put a spike into my vein
<br />Then I tell you things aren't quite the same
<br />When I'm rushing on my run
<br />And I feel just like Jesus' son
<br />And I guess that I just don't know
<br />And I guess that I just don't know


I have made big decision
<br />I'm gonna try to nullify my life
<br />'Cause when the blood begins to flow
<br />When it shoots up the dropper's neck
<br />When I'm closing in on death


And you can't help me, not you guys
<br />Or all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk
<br />You can all go take a walk
<br />And I guess I just don't know
<br />And I guess that I just don't know


I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
<br />I wish that I'd sailed the darkened seas
<br />On a great big clipper ship
<br />Going from this land here to that
<br />Ah, in a sailor's suit and cap


Away from the big city
<br />Where a man cannot be free
<br />Of all the evils of this town
<br />And of himself and those around
<br />Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
<br />Oh, and I guess that I just don't know


Heroin, be the death of me
<br />Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life, ha-ha
<br />Because a mainer to my vein
<br />Leads to a center in my head
<br />And then I'm better off than dead


Because when the smack begins to flow
<br />I really don't care anymore
<br />About all the Jim-Jims in this town
<br />And all the politicians making crazy sounds
<br />And everybody putting everybody else down
<br />And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds


'Cause when the smack begins to flow
<br />Then I really don't care anymore


Ah, when that heroin is in my blood, hah
<br />And that blood is in my head
<br />Man thank God that I'm good as dead
<br />And thank your God that I'm not aware
<br />And thank God that I just don't care
<br />And I guess that I just don't know
<br />Oh, and I guess that I just don't know