Heroin Lyrics - Reed Lou

(Reed) 

I don't know just where I'm going 

But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can 

'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man 

When I put a spike into my vein 

And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same 

When I'm rushing on my run 

And I feel just 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 it shoots up the dropper's neck 

When I'm closing in on death 

And you can't help me now, you guys 

And a 

You can all go take a walk 

And I guess that I just don't know 

And I guess that I just don't know 

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 can not be free 

Of all of the evils of this town 

And of himself, and those around 

Oh, and I guess that I just don't know 

Oh, and I guess that I just don't know 

Heroin, be the death of me 

Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life 

Because a mainer to my vein 

Leads to a center in my head 

And then I'm better off and dead 

Because when the smack begins to flow 

I really don't care anymore 

About all the Jim-Jim's in this town 

And all the politicians makin' crazy sounds 

And everybody puttin' everybody else down 

And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds 

'Cause when the smack begins to flow 

Then I really don't care anymore 

Ah, when the heroin is in my blood 

And that 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 

And I guess I just don't know 

And I guess I just don't know