Heroin [1969 The Velvet Underground Live]

[Verse 1]

I don't know just where I'm going

And 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

[Verse 2]

I have made a very big decision

I'm going to 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

You can't help me, not you guys

Or all you girls with all your sweet pretty talk

Ah you can all go take a walk

And I guess I just don't know

And I guess that I just don't know

[Verse 3]

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 and that

Away from the big cities

Where a man cannot be free

Of all the evil in this town

And of himself and those around

And I guess that I just don't know

And I guess that I just don't know

[Verse 4]

Heroin will be the death of me

Heroin, now 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

When the smack begins to flow

I really don't care anymore

About all you Jim-Jims in this town

And everybody putting everybody else down

And all the politicians making crazy sounds

You know the dead bodies piled up in mounds

For while that heroin is in my blood

And that blood is in my head

Oh thank God I'm good as dead

And thank God that I'm not aware

And I guess I just don't know

And I guess that I just don't know