Velvet Underground, The - Heroin lyrics

Album: The Velvet Underground & Nico (1966)

I do not know just where I am going
But I am going to try for the kingdom if I can
´Cause it makes me feel like I am a man
When I put a spike into my vein
Then I tell you things aren´t quite the same
When I am 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´ve made the big decision
I am going to try to nullify my life
´Cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the dropper´s neck
When I am closing in on death

And you can not 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 yeahrs ago
I wish that I would sailed the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
On a sailor´s suit & cap

Away from the big city
Where a man can not be free
Of all the evils of this town
And of himself & those around
Oh, & I guess that I just don´t know
Oh, & I guess that I just don´t know

Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, it is my wife & it is my life, ha-ha
Because a mainer to my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then I am 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 am as good as dead
And thank your God that I am not aware
And thank God that I just don´t care
And I guess that I just don´t know
Oh, & I guess that I just don´t know


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