King Heroin

King Heroin Lyrics

Song King Heroin
Artist James Brown
Album LateNightTales - Franz Ferdinand
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[00:02.76] Ladies and gentlemen
[00:05.02] Fellow Americans, lady Americans
[00:10.00] This is James Brown
[00:12.33] I wanna talk to you about one of our
[00:14.54] Most deadly killers in the country today
[00:21.49] I had a dream the other night, and I
[00:23.31] Was sittin' in my living room
[00:26.03] Dozed off to sleep
[00:26.96] So I start to dreamin'
[00:28.64] I dreamed I walked in a place and
[00:30.98] I saw a real strange, weird object
[00:32.95] Standin' up talkin' to the people
[00:34.32] And I found out it was heroin
[00:37.00] That deadly drug that go in your veins
[00:38.72] He says:
[00:40.64] I came to this country without a passport
[00:44.05] Ever since then I've been hunted and sought
[00:48.16] My little white grains are nothin' but waste
[00:51.46] Soft and deadly and bitter to taste
[00:55.68] I'm a world of power and all know it's true
[01:00.05] Use me once and you'll know it, too
[01:04.06] I can make a mere schoolboy forget his books
[01:07.50] I can make a world-famous beauty neglect her looks
[01:12.03] I can make a good man forsake his wife
[01:14.06] Send a greedy man to prison for the rest of his life
[01:18.42] I can make a man forsake his country and flag
[01:22.42] Make a girl sell her body for a five-dollar bag
[01:26.41] Some think my adventure's a joy and a thriller
[01:28.78] But I'll put a gun in your hand and make you a killer
[01:32.48] In cellophane bags I've found my way
[01:34.58] To heads of state, to children at play
[01:37.45] I'm financed in China, ran in Japan
[01:40.02] I'm respected in Turkey and I'm legal in Siam
[01:44.02] I take my addicts and make 'em steal, borrow, beg
[01:47.95] Then they search for a vein in their arm or their leg
[01:53.99] So, be you Italian, Jewish, Black or Mex
[02:00.44] I can make the most virile of men forget their sex
[02:05.14] So now, now, my man, you must (you know) do your best
[02:09.64] To keep up your habit until your arrest
[02:14.06] Now the police have taken you from under my wing
[02:19.99] Do you think they dare defy me, I who am king?
[02:24.50] Now, you must lie in that county jail
[02:28.56] Where I can't get to you by visit or mail
[02:32.18] So squirm -- with discomfort -- wiggle and cough (hack!)
[02:36.91] Six days of madness, hah, and you might throw me off
[02:42.70] Curse me in name! Defy me in speech!
[02:45.64] But you'd pick me up right now if I were in your reach
[02:49.39] All through your sentence you've become resolved to your fate
[02:52.91] Hear now! Young man and woman, I'll be waitin' at the gate
[02:57.43] Don't be afraid, don't run! I'm not chased
[03:00.50] Sure my name is Heroin! You'll be back for a taste
[03:04.68] Behold, you're hooked!
[03:07.65] Your foot is in the stirrup
[03:09.55] And make -- haste!
[03:12.19] Mount the steed!
[03:14.03] And ride him well
[03:17.54] For the white horse of heroin
[03:20.20] Will ride you to Hell!
[03:24.08] To Hell!
[03:26.46] Will ride you to Hell!
[03:29.80] Until you are dead!
[03:37.12] Dead, brother! Dead!
[03:40.91] This is a revolution of the mind
[03:43.82] Get your mind together
[03:45.00] And get away from drugs!
[03:48.15] That's the man!
[03:52.01] Back! Back
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