I don't know just where I'm going 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 tell you 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
I don't know I decided a couple of things But I know, but I'm going to try to give my life 'Cause when the blood begins to flow When it shoots up the dropper's neck When I'm closing in on death
You can't help me, not you guys Or 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 sailed the darkened seas On a great big clipper ship Going from this land here to that Put on a sailor's suit and cap
Away from the big city Where a man cannot be free Of all of the evils in 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 than dead
Because when the smack begins to flow Oh then I really don't care anymore About all your Jim-Jims in this town And everybody putting everybody else down And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds And all the politicians making crazy columns
Ah, while that heroin is in my blood And that blood is in my head Woh, then thank God that I'm 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