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King Heroin [Single Version]
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James Brown
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Ladies and gentlemen
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Fellow Americans
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Lady Americans
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This is James Brown
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I wanna talk to you about one of our
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Most deadly, killers in the country today
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I had a dream the other night, and I
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Was sittin' in my living room
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Dozed off to sleep
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So I start to dreamin'
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I dreamed I walked in a place and
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I saw a real strange, weird object
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Standin' up talkin' to the people
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And I found out it was heroin
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That deadly drug that go in your veins
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He says
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I came to this country without a passport
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Ever since then I've been hunted and sought
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My little white grains are nothin' but waste
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Soft and deadly and bitter to taste
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I'm a world of power and all know it's true
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Use me once and you'll know it, too
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I can make a mere schoolboy forget his books
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I can make a world-famous beauty neglect her looks
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I can make a good man forsake his wife
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Send a greedy man to prison for the rest of his life
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I can make a man forsake his country and flag
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Make a girl sell her body for a five-dollar bag
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Some think my adventure's a joy and a thrill
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But I'll put a gun in your hand and make you kill
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In cellophane bags, I've found my way
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To heads of state and children at play
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I'm financed in China, ran in Japan
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I'm respected in Turkey and I'm legal in Siam
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I take my addicts and make 'em steal, borrow, beg
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Then they search for a vein in their arm or their leg
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So, be you Italian, Jewish, Black or Mex
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I can make the most virile of men forget their sex
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So now, no, my man, you must, you know, do your best
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To keep up your habit until your arrest
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Now the police have taken you from under my wing
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Do you think they dare defy me, I who am king
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Now, you must lie in that county jail
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Where I can't get to you by visit or mail
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So squirm, with discomfort, wiggle and cough
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Six days of madness, you might throw me off
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Curse me in name, defy me in speech
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But you'd pick me up right no if I were in your reach
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All through your sentence you've become resolved to your fate
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Hear now young man and woman, I'll be waitin' at the gate
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And don't be afraid, don't run, I'm not chased
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Sure my name is Heroin, you'll be back for a taste
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Behold, you're hooked, your foot is in the stirrup
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And make, haste, mount the steed and ride him well
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For the white horse of heroin will ride you to Hell, to Hell
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Will ride you to Hell until you are dead
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Dead, brother, dead
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This is a revolution of the mind
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Get your mind together
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And get away from drugs
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That's the man
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Back, back
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