Lyrics The Velvet Underground

The Velvet Underground

Heroin

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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 Then I tell you 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

I 'Cause when the blood begins to flow

When it shoots up the dropper's neck

When I'm closing in on death

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And you can't help me, not you guys

Or all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk You can all go take a walk And I guess 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 sailed the darkened seas On a great big clipper ship Going from this land here to that On a sailor's suit and cap

Away from the big city

Where a man cannot be free

Of all 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, ha-ha Because a mainer to my vein Leads to a center in my head And then I'm better off than dead

Because when the smack begins to flow

I really don't care anymore

About all the Jim-Jims in this town

And all the politicians making crazy sounds And everybody putting 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 that heroin is in my blood

And the blood is in my head

Man thank God that I'm as good as dead

And thank your God that I'm not aware

And thank God that I just don't care

And I guess that I just don't know

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