James Brown - King Heroin (Single Version) lyrics

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Ladies and gentlemen, fellow Americans, lady Americans<br />

This is James Brown<br />

I wanna talk to you about one of our most deadly killers in the country today<br />

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I had a dream the other night<br />

And I was sittin' in my living room<br />

Just dozed off to sleep so I started dreamin'<br />

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I dreamed, I walked in a place<br />

And I saw a real strange, weird object<br />

Standin' up talkin' to the people<br />

And I found out that it was Heroin<br />

That deadly drug that go in your vein<br />

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He said, "I came to this country without a passport<br />

Ever since then, I've been hunted and sought<br />

My little white grains are nothin' but waste<br />

Soft and deadly and bitter to taste<br />

I'm a world of power and all know it's true<br />

Use me once and you'll know it, too"<br />

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"I can make a mere schoolboy forget his books<br />

I can make a world-famous beauty neglect her looks<br />

I can make a good man forsake his wife<br />

Send a greedy man to prison for the rest of his life"<br />

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"I can make a man forsake his country and flag<br />

Make a girl sell her body for a five-dollar bag<br />

Some think my adventure's a joy and a thrill<br />

But I'll put a gun in your hand and make you kill"<br />

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"In cellophane bags I've found my way<br />

To heads of state to children at play<br />

I'm financed in China, ran in Japan<br />

I'm respected in Turkey and I'm legal in Siam"<br />

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"I take my addicts and make them steal, borrow, beg<br />

Then they search for a vein in their arm or their leg<br />

So, be you Italian, Jewish, Black or Mex<br />

I can make the most virile of men forget their sex"<br />

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"So now, so now my man, you must, you know, you do your best<br />

To keep up your habit until your arrest<br />

Now the police have taken you from under my wing<br />

Do you think they dare defy me, I, who am king?"<br />

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"Now, you must lie in that county jail<br />

Where I can't get to you by a visit or mail<br />

So squirm with discomfort, wiggle and cough<br />

Six days of madness and you might throw me off"<br />

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"Curse me in name, defy me in speech<br />

But you'd pick me up right now if I were in your reach<br />

All through your sentence you've become resolved to your fate<br />

Hear now, young man and woman, I'll be waitin' at the gate"<br />

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"And don't be afraid, don't run, I'm not chased<br />

Sure my name is Heroin, you'll be back for a taste"<br />

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Behold, you're hooked<br />

Your foot is in the stirrup<br />

And make haste, mount the steed<br />

And ride him well<br />

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For the white horse of heroin<br />

Will ride you to hell, to hell<br />

Will ride you to hell, until you are dead<br />

Dead, brother, dead<br />

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This is a revolution of the mind<br />

Get your mind together<br />

And get away from drugs<br />

That's the man!