Lou Reed, John Cale & Nico Heroin

[Le Bataclan '72 Version]

Reed [spoken]: Ok, this song didn't get a span.

I don't know just where I'm goin'
But I'm going to 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,
Oh, I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same
When I'm rushin' 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

I don't know
I've decided a couple of things

But I know that I'm
Gon' try to kick my life
'cause when the blood begins to flow,
when it shuts up the blooded neck
when I'm closing in on death
And you can't help me not,
you guys and all you sweet pretty girls with all your sweet pretty 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 years ago
And I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas on a great big clipper ship, goin' from this land here to that, put on a sailor's suit and cap

Oh way from the big city where a man cannot be free of all of the evils of this town and of himself, and those around. Oh, and I guess 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, oh then I really don't care anymore about all your Jim-Jim's in this town and everybody putting everybody else down
And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds.
And all the politicians making crazy clowns.

Ah, while the heroin is in my blood and that blood is in my head, woh then thank God that I'm as good as dead
And thank 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 that I just don't know.