King Heroin Lyrics - There It Is - James Brown

Ladies and gentlemen 

Fellow Americans, lady Americans 

This is James Brown 

I wanna talk to you about one of our 

Most deadly killers in the country today 

I had a dream the other night, and I 

Was sittin' in my living room 

Dozed off to sleep 

So I start to dreamin' 

I dreamed I walked in a place and 

I saw a real strange, weird object 

Standin' up talkin' to the people 

And I found out it was heroin 

That deadly drug that go in your veins 

He says: 

I came to this country without a passport 

Ever since then I've been hunted and sought 

My little white grains are nothin' but waste 

Soft and deadly and bitter to taste 

I'm a world of power and all know it's true 

Use me once and you'll know it, too 

I can make a mere schoolboy forget his books 

I can make a world-famous beauty neglect her looks 

I can make a good man forsake his wife 

Send a greedy man to prison for the rest of his life 

I can make a man forsake his country and flag 

Make a girl sell her body for a five-dollar bag 

Some think my adventure's a joy and a thriller 

But I'll put a gun in your hand and make you a killer 

In cellophane bags I've found my way 

To heads of state, to children at play 

I'm financed in China, ran in Japan 

I'm respected in Turkey and I'm legal in Siam 

I take my addicts and make 'em steal, borrow, beg 

Then they search for a vein in their arm or their leg 

So, be you Italian, Jewish, Black or Mex 

I can make the most virile of men forget their sex 

So now, now, my man, you must (you know) do your best 

To keep up your habit until your arrest 

Now the police have taken you from under my wing 

Do you think they dare defy me, I who am king? 

Now, you must lie in that county jail 

Where I can't get to you by visit or mail 

So squirm -- with discomfort -- wiggle and cough (hack!) 

Six days of madness, hah, and you might throw me off 

Curse me in name! Defy me in speech! 

But you'd pick me up right now if I were in your reach 

All through your sentence you've become resolved to your fate 

Hear now! Young man and woman, I'll be waitin' at the gate 

Don't be afraid, don't run! I'm not chased 

Sure my name is Heroin! You'll be back for a taste 

Behold, you're hooked! 

Your foot is in the stirrup 

And make -- haste! 

Mount the steed! 

And ride him well 

For the white horse of heroin 

Will ride you to Hell! 

To Hell! 

Will ride you to Hell! 

Until you are dead! 

Dead, brother! Dead! 

This is a revolution of the mind 

Get your mind together 

And get away from drugs! 

That's the man! 

Back! Back 

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