YouLyric
Sign in
Sign up for free
King Heroin (Single Version)
Share
James Brown
What's this song about?
Generate meaning
1
Ladies and gentlemen, fellow Americans, lady Americans
2
This is James Brown
3
I wanna talk to you about one of our most deadly killers in the country today
4
I had a dream the other night
5
And I was sittin' in my living room
6
Just dozed off to sleep so I started dreamin'
7
I dreamed, I walked in a place
8
And I saw a real strange, weird object
9
Standin' up talkin' to the people
10
And I found out that it was Heroin
11
That deadly drug that go in your vein
12
He said, "I came to this country without a passport
13
Ever since then, I've been hunted and sought
14
My little white grains are nothin' but waste
15
Soft and deadly and bitter to taste
16
I'm a world of power and all know it's true
17
Use me once and you'll know it, too"
18
"I can make a mere schoolboy forget his books
19
I can make a world-famous beauty neglect her looks
20
I can make a good man forsake his wife
21
Send a greedy man to prison for the rest of his life"
22
"I can make a man forsake his country and flag
23
Make a girl sell her body for a five-dollar bag
24
Some think my adventure's a joy and a thrill
25
But I'll put a gun in your hand and make you kill"
26
"In cellophane bags I've found my way
27
To heads of state to children at play
28
I'm financed in China, ran in Japan
29
I'm respected in Turkey and I'm legal in Siam"
30
"I take my addicts and make them steal, borrow, beg
31
Then they search for a vein in their arm or their leg
32
So, be you Italian, Jewish, Black or Mex
33
I can make the most virile of men forget their sex"
34
"So now, so now my man, you must, you know, you do your best
35
To keep up your habit until your arrest
36
Now the police have taken you from under my wing
37
Do you think they dare defy me, I, who am king?"
38
"Now, you must lie in that county jail
39
Where I can't get to you by a visit or mail
40
So squirm with discomfort, wiggle and cough
41
Six days of madness and you might throw me off"
42
"Curse me in name, defy me in speech
43
But you'd pick me up right now if I were in your reach
44
All through your sentence you've become resolved to your fate
45
Hear now, young man and woman, I'll be waitin' at the gate"
46
"And don't be afraid, don't run, I'm not chased
47
Sure my name is Heroin, you'll be back for a taste"
48
Behold, you're hooked
49
Your foot is in the stirrup
50
And make haste, mount the steed
51
And ride him well
52
For the white horse of heroin
53
Will ride you to hell, to hell
54
Will ride you to hell, until you are dead
55
Dead, brother, dead
56
This is a revolution of the mind
57
Get your mind together
58
And get away from drugs
59
That's the man!
8 views
0 meanings
Go Pro
Unlimited meanings ยท Priority generation
Upgrade