Heroin
By: Lou Reed
Original Performance: The Velvet Underground
Written by: Lou Reed

Version Of: Heroin

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Lyrics:
I don't know just where I'm going
But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can
Because it makes me feel like a man
When I put a spike in my vein
And I'll tell you things aren't the same
When I'm rushing on my run
And I feel like Jesus' son
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know

I have made the big decision
I'm gonna try to nullify my life
'Cause when the blood begins to flow
When I guess... upon my neck
And I'm closing in on death
And you can't help me now
All you guys and all your sweet talk
And I guess that I'll take a walk
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know

I wish...
I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
In a sailor's suit and cap
Away from the big city
Where a man cannot be free
Of the evils of this town
And of himself and all those around
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know

Heroin, heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life
Because a needle in my vein
Leads to the center in my head
And I'm better off then dead
Because when the smack begins to flow
And I don't care anymore
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And I guess that I just don't know

Because when the smack begins to flow
Then I really don't care anymore
And then the heroin is in my blood
And the blood is in my head
Then thank God that I'm as good as dead
Then thank your God that I'm not aware
And thank God that I just don't care
I just don't know
I just don't know
I just don't know
I just don't know
I just don't know

I don't know just where I'm going
But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can
Because it makes me feel like a man
When I put a spike in my vein
And I'll tell you things aren't quite the same
When I'm rushing on my run
And I feel like Jesus' son
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know