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Verse 1
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Ladies and gentlemen
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Fellow Americans,
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lady Americans
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This is James Brown
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I wanna talk to you about one of our
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Most deadly killers in
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the country today
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I had a dream the other night, and I
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Was sittin' in my living room
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Dozed off to sleep
So I start to dreamin'
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I dreamed I walked in a place and
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I saw a real strange, weird object
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Standin' up talkin' to the people
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And I found out it was heroin
That deadly drug that go in your veins
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He said
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I came to this country without
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a passport
Ever since then I've been hunted
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an d sought
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My little white grains are nothin'
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but waste
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Soft and deadly and bitter to taste
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I'm a world of power
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and all know it's true
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Use me once and you'll know
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it, too
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I can make a mere schoolboy
forget his books
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I can make a world- famous beauty
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neglect her looks
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I can make a good man forsake his wife
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Send a greedy man to prison
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for the rest of his life
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I can make a man forsake his
country and flag
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Make a girl sell her body
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for a five- dollar bag
Some think my adventure's
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a joy and a thriller
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But I'll put a gun in your hand
and make you a killer
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In cellophane bags
I've found my way
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To heads of state, to children at play
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I'm financed in China, ran in Japan
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I'm respected in Turkey
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and I'm legal in Siam
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I take my addicts and make 'em steal,
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borrow, beg
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Then they search for a vein
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in their arm or their leg
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So, be you Italian,
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Jewish,
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Black or Mex
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I can make the most virile
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of men forget their sex
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So now, now, my man,
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you must (you know) do your best
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To keep up your habit
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until your arrest
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Now the police have taken you
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from under my wing
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Do you think they dare defy
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me, I who am king?
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Now, you must lie in that county jail
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Where I can't get to you
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by visit or mail
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So squirm with discomfort,
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wiggle and cough (hack!)
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Six days of madness, hah,
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and you might throw me off
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Curse me in name! Defy me in speech!
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But you'd pick me up right now
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if I were in your reach
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All through your sentence you've become
resolved to your fate
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Hear now! Young man and woman,
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I'll be waitin' at the gate
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Don't be afraid,
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don't run ! I'm not chased
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Sure my name is Heroin! You'll
be back for a taste
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Behold, you're hooked!
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Your foot is in the stirrup
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And make haste
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Mount the steed!
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And ride him well
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For the white horse of heroin
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Will ride you to Hell!
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To Hell!
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Will ride you to Hell!
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Until you are dead!
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Dead, brother! Dead!
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This is a revolution of the mind
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Get your mind together
And get away from drugs!
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That's
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the man!
Back! Back
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