I know just where I'm going
I'm gonna try for the kingdom if I can
'Cause it makes me feel that I'm a man
When I put the spike into my vein
Then I'll tell 'ya things aren't quite the same
When I'm rushing for my run
And I feel like Jesus' son
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know

I have made a big decision
I'm gonna nullify my life
When the blood begins to flow
When it squirts up the dropper's neck
When the smack goes and hits my blood
When I'm closing in on death
And my head begins to whirl
And you can't help me, not you girls
All you guys with all your talk
You can all go take a walk
Take me where the river flows
Off the buildings around the floors
And the buildings for the sign
Linking all from the mother's time
And I guess that I just don't know
Oh, I guess that I just don't know
I wish that I lived a hundred 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
From the evils of this town
And of himself, and those around
I wish I'd traveled all around
And I guess I just don't know
Oh babe, I guess I just don't know

Heroin's gonna be the death of me
Heroin, it's my life and it's my wife
Because the mainline to my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then I'm better off than dead

With that smack then starting to flow
Then I really don't care no more
About the Jim-Jim's in this town
And the animals making sounds
And people selling people by p-p-pound
And the politicians and the clowns
And the do-gooders with their frowns
And the dead bodies all piled in mounds

While that heroin's in my blood
And that blood is in my head
Then thank God I'm as good as dead
And thank God that I'm not aware
And thank God that I don't well care
And I guess that I just don't know
Whoa, I guess that I just don't know