Heroin
The Velvet Underground
Letra

Tabbed by: Ian C.
E-mail: [email protected]

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Riff 1:          Riff 2:          Riff 3:
e|------1---1-|  e|------------|  e|----2--1---1-|
B|----2---2---|  B|------4---4-|  B|--2------2---|
G|--3---------|  G|-0--3---3---|  G|-------------|
D|------------|  D|------------|  D|-------------|
A|------------|  A|------------|  A|-------------|
E|------------|  E|------------|  E|-------------|

(Order: 1-2-3-2)

(This song is based on the chords Db and Bb, which are played as follows)
         
e|--1------1---|
B|--2------3---|
G|--1------3---|
D|--3------3---|
A|--x------x---|
E|--x------x---|

[Verse 1]
                                    
   I   don t know    just where I m going
                                  
But I m    gonna try for the kingdom if I can
                                
Cuz it makes me feel like I m a man
                            
When I put a spike into my vein
                                           
Then, I tell ya , things aren t quite the same
                       
When I m rushin  on my run
                            
And I feel just like Jesus  son

[Chorus]
                              
And I guess that I just don t know
                               
And I guess that I just don t know

[Verse 2]
                            
I     have made     big decisions
                            
I m   gonna try     to nullify my life 
                              
Cuz when the blood begins to flow
                                
When it shoots up the dropper s neck
                         
When I m closing in on death

(After this line, Morrison interjects with a riff B, which is to be repeated as necessary)

e|-----7---7---9---7--------|
B|-----8---8---10--8--------|
G|-----7---7---9---7--------|
D|--------------------------|
A|--------------------------|
E|--------------------------|
                                
And you can t help me, not you guys
                                            
Or all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk
                       
You can all go take a walk

[Chorus]
                          
And I guess I just don t know
                               
And I guess that I just don t know

[Verse 3]
                                               
   I   wish that    I was born a thousand years ago
                                        
I      wish that     I d sailed the darkened seas
                         
On a great big clipper ship
                              
Going from this land here to that
                                  
Ah, in a sailor s suit and cap
                   
   Away from the big city
                       
Where a man cannot be free
                              
Of all of the evils of this town
                            
And of himself and those around

[Chorus]
                                   
Oh, and I guess that I just don t know
                                   
Oh, and I guess that I just don t know

[Verse 4]
       
  Heeeeeroin
                       
  Be the death of me
       
  Heeeeeroin
                         
It s my wife and it s my life
                          
Because a mainline to my vein
                         
Leads to a center in my head
                            
And then I m better off as dead
                                  
Because when the smack begins to flow
                       
Ah, I really don t care anymore
                                
About all the jim-jims in this town
                                      
And all the politicians makin  busy sounds
                                      
And everybody puttin  everybody else down
                                    
And all the dead bodies piled up in Nam
Play riff B a few times
                            
Cuz when the smack begins to flow
                            
Then I really don t care anymore
                               
Ah, when that heroin is in my blood
                         
And that blood is in my head
                                 
Then thank god that I m good as dead
                                 
And thank your god that I m not aware
                                
And thank god that I just don t care

[Chorus]
                         
And I guess I just don t know
                             
Ah, and I guess I just don t know

[Outro]