Title: Heroin
Subtitle:
Artist: Velvet Underground (The)
Album: The Velvet Underground & Nico
Author: Lou Reed
Copyright: Polygram Records
Tabled by: Jonathan Tranter
Instructions: Great song, release in March 1967.
Notices: Tuned Standard, I think the tempo is right.
Tab features all instruments and track 5 is added at the
beginning for the full effect.

Tempo: 50 BPM
Tracks: 5
Instruments:
Bars: 37

Lyric

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 not, you guys

And all you sweet girls
With all your sweet silly talk
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