Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground Heroin lyrics

I don't know just where I'm going
I'm gonna try for the kingdom, when 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, I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know

Now I have made very big decision
And 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 not, you guys
And all you sweet girls with all your sweet silly 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

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

Away from the big city

Where a man can not be free
Of all of the evils of this town
And I guess, I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know

Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, you know that 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
All I really don't care anymore
About all the jim-jim's in this town
And everybody puttin' everybody else down
And all the politicians makin' busy sounds
And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds

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