Heroin (alternate version)
By: Lou Reed
Original Performance: The Velvet Underground
Written by: Lou Reed

Version Of: Heroin

This Version:
 
Lyrics:
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 veins
And I'll tell you things aren't the same
When I'm rushing on my run
And I feel 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
And I'm gonna try to nullify my life
When the blood begins to flow
And it shoots up the dropper's neck
And I'm closing in on death
And you can't help me now
All you guys and all you sweet girls and all your sweet talk
You can all go and just take a walk
Well I guess that I just don't know
And I guess but I just don't know

And I wish that I was born a thousand years ago
And 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 cannot be free
Of all the evils of 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

Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life
Because a needle through my vein
Leads to the center in my head
And I'm better off then dead
When the smack begins to flow
I really really really don't care anymore
About all the changings in this town
And all the politicians making sounds
And everybody pushing everybody down
And all the dead bodies piling around
When the smack begins to flow
I really really don't care anymore
With the heroin in my veins
Thank God that I'm good as dead
Thank God that I'm not aware
And thank God that I just don't care
And I guess but I just don't know
And I guess but I just don't know