Velvet Underground Heroin Lyrics

(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