I was 17 and i was hooked..on heroine...never had that feeling before and now I am 61 and I can tell you it was the greatest feeling I ever had in my life! Kicked off when I was 20! But my life is good :) I had a very heavy life.Always looked for challenges ... I was hooked on everything you can be hooked on, and I survived everything. I'm clean now, but what an awesome life this was !!! And still is ... What a great experience, never wanted to miss it .......Now my life is quiet and good... I'm calm now...
I was 47 years old with the emotional stability of a 16 year old. That's one thing of many that 37 years of using heroin as a way of life did for me. I loved it the first time I tried it at 15 years old.....I remember that moment as vividly as anything in my life. Now, I'm 61. Been clean over a decade. Stopping was the hardest thing I ever did in my life. Nothing is even close. And to this day......I still love it. But I climbed every mountain there was in that regard. Nothing left to find there. Except perhaps more misery. But not from the heroin. More from the lack of it. If you're anything like me, don't even try it once. It will bring you to the darkest places that you can imagine. I can't believe where I've been and the things I've done. For Heroin.
Thanks for sharing that. I had many friends who were addicts, some gone and a few still around. I liked drugs yet somehow knew as you said that I should not try it. All the best to you
I used for over 30 years. You can't count 24 years in prison. What I found out was my bottom was never ending. I live in Philadelphia and there's no heroin anywhere around here. Not in NY, nowhere. The closest place would be Texas. I don't want it that bad.
Instant love for me too. First time trying, well, opioids, I knew right then and there, it was only a matter of time before I got addicted. I was right. The some what, "lighter" opioids led to stronger ones, and eventually Heroin. I used for about 10-12 years, I'm 37 now. Been clean about 5-6 months. And yes, it's the hardest thing I've done in my life so far. You can stop, the hardest part is to not pick it up again.
I want every single person who thinks the arts aren't important to sit quietly and listen to this song and tell me they don't have a physical reaction to it.
[Verse 1] I don't know just where I'm going But I'm gonna 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 And I tell you things aren't quite the same When I'm rushing 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 decision I'm gonna try to nullify 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 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 On a sailor's suit and cap Away from the big city Where a man cannot be free Of all 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] Heroin, be the death of me Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life, haha Because a mainline into my vein Leads to a center in my head And then I'm better off than dead Because when the smack begins to flow I really don't care anymore About all the Jim-Jims in this town And all the politicians making crazy sounds And everybody putting everybody else down And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds Cause when the smack begins to flow And I really don't care anymore Ah, when that heroin is in my blood Heh, and that blood is in my head Then thank God that I'm as 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 Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
Thank you for doing this ! This was amazing to see. Very well done 👍🏻. Only the people who sadly have went through this can understand the pain and suffering of this drug. Feels good yet bad
I love Lou but he should've wrote a song as eloquent about kicking heroin- its not what you would call rock and roll and it's not what you'd call romantic.
addicted for 3 years. No one even knew. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do to quit. I thought I would die. God I hated being downsick. I still dream of the feeling and it still takes willpower to not give in. But if I ever give in, it's all over and that's why I never will. I have things to live for.
I can’t quit. Opiates literally are my only solution to be alive at 25. I had an injury that caused horrible chronic pain. I want everyone to stay sober but I can’t. It’s my wife... It’s my life...
Not very many people actually walk out the other side, stay free, life is the better choice, or that’s what they say, personally I have been stuck on a methadone program for twenty odd years now but it’s better than the alternative, that’s what they say. Look after yourself my friend and keep looking forward, never back, that’s what they say
I've been clean for 29 years and was and was on needle for almost 10 years, times were different back then and there was no methadone back then. ...at some point it was too long ago........
Without a doubt, the most intense band of all time...and in 1967! They encompassed all the depravity, sexuality and bizarre alternatives of that age. And, also this age and...the next...and...
What about the Fugs who influenced and inspired them? They get forgotten when they were the first semi-popular underground band in NYC and were more depraved and sexual
I've have not done heroin to date, however my parents were both heroin addicts. So my heart goes out to anyone struggling with this addiction. My doctor did have me on heavy narcotics for 7 years that in my opinion when I chose to come off of, so i could have my first daughter. The withdrawals of coming off of as a high of a dose as I was on looks very similar to what I witnessed at times growing up. It's pure human suffering. * Sending love, light, enlightenment, positive affirmations/ prayers and hugs that heal to everyone that reads this and include everyone that doesn't get the chance too. 🦋🐝🐬🦇🐅🦄🧚🙏💁❣️💝❣️😘💁🙏🦄🧚🐅🦇🦋🐬🐝
Thank you. I am 26 I have been on opiates since I was 18 and just started doing brown heroin not even 2 months ago for the first time... I snort it no injection (yet..) It is very scary to live this way. But I chose it because it kills the EXCRUCIATING physical pain and the mental trauma... It really numbs and somewhat helps but TEMPORARILY... It always goes away and I need more... It is a vicious cycle I am not ready to break I feel... But I need to break it before it breaks me!... Thanks for your heartfelt comment. God bless you and your parents who broke the cycle from what you have stated. Please pray to God for me if you do and there is no question I will pray for you. God bless you... ❤️👍🏽🙌🏽
They should have tapered you off. There is literally no reason to make a Patient go through withdrawal. As long as the patient is able to follow the instructions, you taper them down from their full dose to 0. How long depends on the dosage, the patients health, the duration they were on the meds etc. It is far less safe for a pregnant woman to go through withdrawals than to taper down.
Excellent that you never went into H addiction, it is crap of a life, I was IVing for 2 years and consequences are unresolved even today for me, I am still on replacement therapy and my family suffered because of my addiction.
Wow. Such an important, unique and insightful comment. I have to screenshot this because there's no way I'll ever see a comment saying the Velvet Underground/this song/etc are "timeless, classic, truly great" ever again.
I think a person they interviewed for the Lou Reed Masters documentary summed this song up perfectly. It's like being on a run away train, and whether or not you have ever experienced heroin everybody knows that feeling as everyone has had their life feel like that at one point or another. I've never used heroin, don't intend to, but this song still gives me goose bumps.
The thing with it is the physiological and mental torture and pain. It’s a straight medical condition. But idiot ignorant people and doctors don’t help
Reed was actually a very innovative guitarist and perhaps nothing fancy he got sounds that had a huge influence on music. Rock and Roll Animal is probably the greatest guitar album ever mainly because of Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner a team who went on to create and work with some of the best artists in music. I think Lou is an underrated vocalist as well and songs like Perfect Day are an excellent example of nuance and emotion. Seriously Lou was one of the greatest
@@jonesy2111 Without John Cale Lou Reed would have ended up as a Bob Dylan copycat (at least in musical terms). It was mainly Cale's arrangements that would transform the original songs into new sonical dimensions, that became groundbreaking. Should have been at least co-credited for the music on TVU&N and WL/WH but Reed's ego stood in the way.
I love how this song goes from mellow to intense to mellow to intense and on and on. This, to me, is an accurate representation of being on narcotics feels like.
the song actually portrays the vvay Heroine hits you, in vvaves that subside & roll across you again & again taking avvay all your cares so that even death isnt frightening anymore & eventually becomes your pursuit .
I have done heroin for 20.years and have had a great time. Ok I'll a few times. But man what a buzz. Oh dear some die . So do drivers . More of em. Keep on keeping on.
I have it hard understanding heroin. Drugs for me is a way to live life. Makes me more aware, judgemental and experiencing. With drugs I can stay up, read books, and listen to music. The high is attached to doing stuff. Alcohol sucks, and sure milder opiates can make you more focusing, but heroin is an escape from all that is fun too.
@@psisis7423 it's the only think that works for my depression and that makes me able to feel anywhere close to a normal human being. Well, not heroin particularly, but opioids in general. I'd be a miserable suicidal wreck without my injectable morphine. Thank God for injectable maintenance - morphine, hydromorphone and diamorphine (pharmaceutical heroin) maintenance. Heroin-assisted treatment (prescription heroin) and other forms of injectable maintenance for opioid addicts is a reality in many countries (like Switzerland and the UK) and it's getting expanded more and more. It's truly the only way for opioid addicts who just won't quit no matter what, like me. I'm on 270-300mg of injectable morphine a day and live a fairly normal life with a family that I love. The majority of problems associated with opioid addiction truly are caused by the illegality of opioids. I know addicts in the UK who are on 500mg, 700mg of legal take-home pharmaceutical heroin a day, and it saved their lives really. They can work and be functional as normal. The only difference is that we come home from work and take a measured dose of our legal junk and nod off watching Netflix or whatever.
@@dboy2462 Okay. May I ask what made you start in the first place? It’s just that, I see how it has its effect, I’ve used a little kratom (legal opioid agonist) myself past year or so and inhibiting anxiety technically does help you focus. But I don’t understand how you mean it’s normal to feel like that. My own depression is rooted in the inability to experience and be productive. I don’t need opiates, but I need dopamine (like ritalin). Dopamine makes me feel alive and happy, not by killing anxiety, but by living life and being rewarded for the stuff I do. Makes me realize my personality. Do you do things when you take morphine? Does it make you feel good reading books or watching movies? Proud of who you are? Or if it just makes you nodding off, and forget about yourself and earthly matters, instead of absorbing and enjoy them, then I don’t see the function of it. And another thing: injecting? Isn’t that like hitting the borders of your high? I guess that’s how you get tolerance, that’s why most move on to harder drugs. If it’s moderate and just below perfect, you can find use in the same drug for ever. And how is it “feeling like a normal human being” with a needle to your arm? Most humans are scared af of needles. And humans supposedly eat and have sex, that’s all they do, and that’s what dopamine lets me get closer to. So in my opinion, opiates don’t seem that philanthropic, not to mention how it kills you in your sleep.
Great song about a heinous subject, I never got into it but my doctors in their infinite wisdom put me on fentanyl for 6 years and I know how goddamn awful it was getting off that stuff...
Fent sucks. No high but terrible tolerance almost immediately. That shit is garbage and should only be used my medical pros trying to knock out someone about to go under the knife.
I hope you got off and stayed off it. Unfortunately people who have never been an “addict” claim that this narrative isn’t true and that you “chose” to keep doing it despite it being a doctors prescriptions. Please keep sharing your story to continue fighting the stigma that all addicts are bad people who made a choice. Nobody chooses to slowly kill themselves. Addiction is a disease. It changes your brain chemistry therefore it is considered more than a choice or a bad decision. Addiction does not discriminate. Anyone can become an addict. Choose to educate yourselves and open yourself up to new experiences you may not understand without judgment. Sending all my light and well wishes your way friend. Stay strong!
My Dad was an attorney at law who would help his assisted ones, in case they wanted to quit. One of them,Mauro, went once so mad in a heroin crave that he wrecked Dad's office off- and then afterwards he wouldn't remember a thing. When the guy died to heroin, Dad brought us teens to his funeral- it was Rome's bright spring afternoon at the end of the Seventies- there were few people there- his devastated family, their stony faces, as if they had cried far too much before that day- indeed they had. At the end of the service, Dad goes "Running to pick the car before they tow it away, wait for me guys" and I could see that his eyes were wet. Ciao Dad. Ciao Mauro the addict guy- you two probably are keeping on fighting.
The thing i love about this song is the way that the lyrics are so applicable to modern society, "and all the politicians making busy sounds and everybody putting everybody else down"
If You were hooked on that shit you would cry when you heard it it. Horse is the most destructive drug in the world, I'v seen great people turn into the worst people you could imagine. Avoid this shit like it's the plague. If you are dying of cancer or if you are going to have a painful death and you only have a few months to live, then yeah take it, and only under those conditions. Some people are given it after a bad plane crash and never get off it just look at Howard Hughes or Hermann W Göring they both received terrible injury's as young men and they where given morphine and strong codeine as young men and they ended up taking it all their lives. H Hughes had 7 hypodermic needles broken off in his arm and it was only after he died and they x rayed him that the rumors were confirmed. So if you like the thought of hypodermics snapped off in your arm go right ahead, but bare in mind if they snap off in a vein they can travel to your heart and kill you, under the right conditions.
@@stefanyalazzanya the misery that acompanies anything one might consider good far outweighs it. It'll bring you to the depths of hell over and over and over again. Don't wonder about it, trust me.
Dear Mistress Heroin, I haven't known you in three years. But when it's quiet and I am alone, I let myself miss you, and that old familiar desire radiates from the marrow in my bones. No matter how vile you made things for me, you always had a knack for making even the most squalid conditions a warm and loving cocoon. Then, as fast as you came, your warmth starts to leave me, and I can no longer pretend that none of this is real. The whispers of my misdeeds turn to laughing, mocking shouts. And I wake up alone, only to start the day's struggle again. All in search for you. Kind regards and burn in hell, Your ex lover
But the feeling of the kick is the most lovable feeling I ever had! And that's the reason of the addiction, you want to have the kick back and back and more and more and there is no stop anymore you're in love with the kick and Lou said it :"She's my life, and she's my wife". And that's the perfect sentence to show what heroin does to you and what it means. 🤍🤍🤍
HEROIN IS ONE HELL OF A DRUG.15 years a slave to the needle.today I'm 12 years clean.Smack was my best friend and worst enemy at the same time.by the Grace of god today I am what I am.
+Kat Hamilton (Zepluv) I had NO CLUE Who This band was I can't believe what I have been deprived of all these years! SO Greatful to my amazing lovely friend Katy Rose, who has been an inspiration in my life for 13 years now! wow we're getting old man!
Nathan Brauer Sounds like you have a great friend. This is my father's generation in music. He listened to all of this. He also fought in Vietnam. My generation is the greats from the 80's-90s. Especially who came out of Seattle...
+Kat Hamilton (Zepluv) Nice song about an EVIL FUCKING DRUG. I wonder if Lou would have made this song knowing how many millions of lives have been ruined by this drug?! I would like to think that he would have used the music and done another subject but what do I know.
It stole my youth; I got my life back in my early 40s, a good life now, a blessed life. Yet, I still romanticise the lifestyle and of course the drug itself, esp when I hear this song. One forgets the misery of a blood filled spoon that you try to re-inject but it's coagulated and it's 3am and snowing. So thankyou Lou and Keith and Willy Deville and the list goes one for showing us there is life after junk!
This is the most perfect song ever written bar none . First heard it on a cassette my dad used to play in the car when I was like 10 years old and it blew my mind. 30 years later and still just as incredible. RIP
I was heavily addicted to heroin, or any opiates for over 20 years, I've been clean for over 10 years, I'm very lucky, I got away with my life, most of my childhood friends weren't as lucky as me though, only a few of us left now 🙏🏻✌🏻💙🏴 #THEDEVILSDUST
Pretty much the same story everywhere.. I don't even remember that how many friends I have lost to drugs (mainly because of heroin, benzos & alcohol, plus some to amfetamines). I am clean now (well, I mean that I don't take anything that isn't legal). The most important thing that I have learned from using heroin etc. that war against drugs doesn't work (at any level)... It only increases the problems with drugs and it costs billion of euros/dollars every year. Only countries that have solved the "drug problem" are those (Portugal, Netherlands etc.) that have made drugs legal - that's just the fact of it... Less users, no penalties, more direct help to addicts etc.
Annoyingly it is a very benign substance if prescribed. Much less damaging to the body than nicotine or alcohol. It is the illegality that is harmful....... BUT, it isn't good in that it stops one laughing and really feeling emotions. That is the worst part...especially in relationships .
I have severe chronic pain that will never go away apparently. Honestly, i do not want to give up opiates because of this reason. It’s my wife. It’s my life
and thus did it's own service to what came after... Morphine, and its derivatives, are (and always have been) put to use for medicinal services. The synthetic application to pain.
It’s sad that those things happen, mate. The war on drugs is total bullshit. It’s my choice to smoke weed and try special K one day and if it fucks me up in the long run it’s all my fault.
a work of tremendous force, and...about a lot more than heroin. ever felt estranged; like u didnt belong? like u wanna be numb and or drop out, because the world doesnt make sense? i was a sober kid and still have never done opiate drugs 44yrs on planet, and this song 100% still makes sense to me. and it always will. forever wanting to be stoned and dumbed out of the existence of this era.
Such a honest raw piece of music, rest in peace to the master himself Mr Lou Reed. This song definitely wouldn’t chart amongst the over-saturated, auto-tuned, commercial, soulless crap that charts today. I hate to be that guy, but they just don’t make em’ like this no more.
Rey Trasgo let me tell u the DAMNEST thing! the other day i went to the dentist and had 2 teeth removed. the dentist gave me a script for 20 10mg hydrocodones! well i had them filled and was telling myself that it was allright for me to take them AND I WOULD BE ALLRIGHT TAKING THEM! so i got home with them like a kid with a prize! i looked at them for awhile and decided i would wait till the weekend and take maybe 10 saturday and the same sunday. so i had them in my dresser waiting to take them. thursday before the weekend i look at my GMAIL and a guy had read my post about being 3 years clean. i dont know if he was or is and addict. but he sent me a simple messege; "Good for you man, keep it up"! now that was the damnest thing to get that AT THAT TIME. long story short i flushed the pills. so lets both hang in there man and live 0NE MORE DAY CLEAN!
That's good to hear. Thankfully where I live it's really hard to to get anything other than smoke or xannies. Not big on either of those, or drinking. Glad to know you're still clean. Anything up a vein will ruin your life. All it took was one time for me, an oxy ... I look at the scars up and down my arm everyday ... I miss that feeling, that rush. But I missed having a real life more, my kids, my family.
This song makes me want to cry. It epitomizes the suffering of the world. Of human beings. "And I guess, I just don't know." None of us really know. We are all here with no certainty. This is ultimately a song of nihilism. The singer has no choice but to give in to his base desires. He desires the high of heroin because he wants to be free of the pain of consciousness. Especially in "the big city". He has concluded that nothing can help him. Only his substance and his addiction can provide him with relief from the pain. It is so human. So sad. So real.
+Joe Bianco Darned right, the city is as far away from the human being's natural evolution as its possible to get. Artificial environments require artificial substances just to get by - or else get TF out of hell's kitchen to the sweet countryside forever.
+FirstUsedBooks dont think( jesus) whas to take at 1rst degre or god in this song! just to say is fucking hight and borred with people in the big city repeating the same old shit for so long!
I 've done heroin oh so many times, but the worst drug in my life and in the lives of many, is what comes after heroin, and it is MMT, methadone maintenance treatment. Methadone is a real devil, it lasts longer, and abstinence syndrome is much worse... But... both are shit... I 've had my first heroin shot at 17, in 2006, 13 years and a few months ago, it was spring, I just turned 17. This song is perfect, it combines a peaceful stage and stage of a rush, of heroin flash, which comes only when you shoot it into the vein, i.v. So... enjoy the song, but do not try heroin out of curiosity or whatever reason, cause there is a good chance for drugs to take your soul and most of your freedom and dignity, believe me. Just be happy naturally, cause once you get hooked, way out is almost impossible, only 2% of opiate addicts make it and stay off it for the rest of their lives, Only two percent!
METHADONE IS THE MOST EVIL THING GOING. AFTER METHADONE YOU GOT NOTHING SO SOME GO BACK TO USING. IT TOOK ME YEARS TO KICK MY HABIT. LOST TIME, NO MEMORIES, NO PRIDE, NO TRUST, NO SELF RESPECT, THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IS THAT NEXT FIX! IT TOOK 10 YEARS BEFORE I COULD EVEN WATCH A MOVIE WITH DRUGS IN IT, BECAUSE THERE IT IS AGAIN, BACK ON YOUR MIND. STILL AFTER 36 YEARS CLEAN I STILL THINK ABOUT IT WHEN I'M FEELING DOWN. AT THAT POINT I GO TO THE GYM FOR A FEW HOURS. I WILL GO TO MY GRAVE AS A RECOVERING ADDICT! BUT AT LEAST I RID MYSELF OF THAT DEMON DRUG. NOTHING GOOD OR CARING OR LOVE COMES FROM IT AND LUCKY IF YOU DON'T GET BUSTED! I RESPECT ALL RECOVERING ADDICTS! THEY'VE HAD ENOUGH TO QUIT. MAY THE HIGHER POWERS WATCH OVER OUR RECOVERIES!
@@janicemenunzio8047 Fuck, you 're right... I am still trying to get myself into even seriously thinking of quiting... it is so damn hard, that fight with my own body, and brain that is addicted... I dont know what to say, you said id all, perfectly... After all that years and effort... Well... I will maybe die as an addict, my liver and spleen are all fucked up, enlarged... Dont know what to do... How to find that motivation... Now I just wanna have all the next fixes that I can, and die... Like this world doesnt offer anything better for me... it is simply like that... not everyone will understand... It is a sickness!
Everyone- “I’ve been clean”... to those who aren’t, maybe will never be, come and go, maybe you will, maybe you will live to be old, maybe you won’t. You matter just the same. I love you. And guess we just don’t know and I guess we just won’t know 🖤
There are no better odes to substance abuse than this song and Sound of Confusion by Spacemen 3, they perfectly capture the bittersweet essence of the lifestyle.
Brilliant song! The way it plays out, becoming manic and comes to rest. I struggled with alcohol AND HAD SOME OF THE BEST TIMES OF MY LIFE...Until the excess ruined many aspects of my life and I nearly died.
for my baby girl who is also an addict...I have raised her children..she is such a little girl at age 45. addiction is a horrible illness.....I pray for all....
These guys were the greatest American rock and roll band of all time.... Absolutely nobody could reach the grounds the Velvet Underground went to... Thank you, Lou, for such a work of art as this song and group.... Cheers
My older sister was an iv heroin addict in the early 1970's. When I was only 13, someone offered to inject me ( Right around the time Elvis died, I am now 58). The only reason why I said no was that my sister was in prison and I knew exactly how heroin addiction had taken over her life. I am so sorry she had to go thru that, and so grateful that knowing what I knew at that age helped save me from my own personal hell I would surely would have went to. All these years later, I still cannot believe how close I got to ruining my own life. If not for my sister, I surely would have.
yeah...had my first o.d. on herron in 1979, before there was narcan. my bona fides. 15 years sober following a few simple steps. not so my best friend stevie. he always said, "if I just hadda briefcase of herron it would last a lifetime." yeah, i said. your lifetime would be about 15 minutes. r.i.p. stevie. poet and friend, cleveland, oh.
r wolfson I know that one...lost so many friends to the queen bitch heroin that I had to make a choice myself & I choose life. 7 years mostly clean now but she's still there on my shoulder whispering "go on,why not? What harm will it do?" but hey-Ho eh the curse of the Junky. Good luck with your battle.
Reading the comments here, makes me fucking laugh. I've been a heroin addict for 40 years, never smoked always shot. Heroin is a goddess that soon turns in to a bitch demon. Death, devastation, broken hearts and lives, she leaves in her wake. There's nothing like it, for intense pleasure, and nothing like it for intense pain. I'm now 54 years old, still here, still using. The heady days of using an eighth of an ounce a day are gone, and today its more like a gram. For all those that fought with the dragon and won their battle, I salute you, many fail. I still enjoy the effects of the drug, like nothing else. Been clean, but didn't want to stay that way. What a song this is, what a talent we lost when Lou passed.
Not knocking anything you said were treading in very similar waters. Just dont want any of the people commenting no matter if they're insightful or cliche to think they're being mocked and discouraged for doing so. Even if it's on a trivial message board for a song its probably the first time and place they've been able to open up and speak their unfiltered truth. Probably have such little experience doing so the feelings that overcome them to decide to comment and enable them to follow through are overwhelmed in unchartered territory it was monumental enough just to get some of their thoughts and feelings off and out into the world. Let alone doing so in a way in which they come off to the reader as poetic/insightful etc. It's not even clear that was your intention just halfway reads that way. I'm speaking more to anyone else that may interpret how I did more than I'm speaking to you. I like and relate to your comment going against the grain and essentially saying what I feel. I'm never going to be completely clean. I want it in my life. I want to find happiness and for better or worse this drug has its part. Its finding that happy balance. While theres genuine stories of redemption most are up down like a blue October jump rope. I think alot of people if they're honest can agree or atleast relate or understand- when you truly fall that first time..even once you pick yourself up and stay up theres so much lost during the fall that doesnt ever come back
I think what I like about this song is that it sounds like Lou Reed isn’t promoting the use of heroin but he’s also not condemning the drug either. He’s just giving a matter of fact experience of using it
Have never taken heroin, never injected any drug, never been a fan of anyone glorifying certain habits into songs, have never been an avid fan of the velvet underground either......however, have to give massive kudos to the band..... the song changes tempo so quickly, with the listener getting drawn into the intravenous experience of feeling the heroin hit the bloodstream, as the tempo increases, and then quickly decreases, as the user comes off the initial high and morphs into the haze..... Very cleverly done, and appreciated by myself, even though the thought of taking the drug sickens me.....
I always look at this and think about how lifeless Nico looks. She would later die at the age 49 on July 18 1988! Nico was a heroin addict for over 15 years.
Lifeless why? She was probably just trying to look cool for the video. 1988 minus 15 is 1973... even if she shot dope for 18 years she wouldn't have been using when this was filmed dude. Speaking of, I'm 36 and I've shot dope for 18 years now
I don't know just where I'm going, But I'm gonna 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, And I'll tell 'ya, things aren't quite the same, When I'm rushin' on my run, And I feel just like Jesus' son, And I guess that I just don't know, And I guess that I just don't know. I have made the big decision: I'm gonna try to nullify my life. 'Cause when the blood begins to flow, When it shoots up the dropper's neck, When I'm closing in on death, And you can't help me now, you guys, And all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk, You can all go take a walk. And I guess that I just don't know, And I guess that I just don't know. I wish that I was born a thousand years ago I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas, On a great big clipper ship, Going from this land here to that, In a sailor's suit and cap, Away from the big city Where a man can not be free Of all of the evils of this town, And of himself, and those around. Oh, and I guess that 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, I really don't care anymore About all the Jim-Jim's in this town, And all the politicians makin' busy sounds, And everybody puttin' everybody else down, And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds, 'Cause when the smack begins to flow, Then I really don't care anymore. Ah, when the heroin is in my blood, And that blood is in my head, Then thank God that I'm as good as dead, Then thank your 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 I just don't know
cant believe this beautiful soul is gone from the world. this song is about survival. he was 22 when he wrote this song, the same age as me. i need to do something
@WatermelonThief The song sounds like it is about giving the listener an idea what it feels like when you inject heroin and get a "rush." Why do you think it is about survival?
The way that this is written, the way it's been played, Up and down, up and down, it's exactly like that..., Heroin. Only try once, than leave life for what it is, with your new life experience.
I have decided to save opiates for when I am dying, a consolation prize to cocoon myself in, I don't want a shred of tolerance to exist when I begin that last spin down
Dies anyone else feel compelled to call the man when listening to this song? Just came from the clinic? Firm in my decision to not use today? Listen to this song and man if you don't pick up the phone tell me how :)
Was on Heroin for 3-4years and in that short time it ruined my life for years with Methadone the next crutch. But thank God 17yrs later I'm here to tell the tale. Very powerful song that will only hit the hearts of those who did it. Nico just there as a hanger on banging a tambourine. #TheChoiceForMeIsDrugsFree
"I'm gonna try/to nullify my life..." This was my theme song for so many years. 18 years past the heroin life... all y'all still in it, I pray that you find your way home soon.
L'héro the produit. Je suis une des rares survivantes. Quand j'entends cette chanson, je revois tous mes potes, je ressens tout ce qu'on ressent quand l'héro monte. Je regrette pas d'avoir connu ce prod même si j'y ai laissé des plumes. Comme dit Lou Reed c'est ma femme c'est ma vie, ouaih c'est ça, enfin moi c'était mon homme, ma vie...
