James Brown – King Heroin

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1. Brownhan oli hyvin huumeidenvastainen kaveri uransa alkuvaiheessa. Tais erottaa bändinsä useampaankin kertaan kun soittajan käyttivät aineita. Myöhemmin sitten 80-luvulla hän taisi itsekin hankkia ongelmia PCP:n ja kokainin kanssa.

   ”Ladies and gentlemen
   Fellow Americans
   Lady Americans
   This is James Brown

   I wanna talk to you about one of our
   Most deadly, killers in the country today
   I had a dream the other night, and I
   Was sittin’ in my living room

   Dozed off to sleep
   So I start to dreamin’
   I dreamed I walked in a place and
   I saw a real strange, weird object

   Standin’ up talkin’ to the people
   And I found out it was heroin
   That deadly drug that go in your veins
   He says

   I came to this country without a passport
   Ever since then I’ve been hunted and sought
   My little white grains are nothin’ but waste
   Soft and deadly and bitter to taste

   I’m a world of power and all know it’s true
   Use me once and you’ll know it, too
   I can make a mere schoolboy forget his books
   I can make a world-famous beauty neglect her looks

   I can make a good man forsake his wife
   Send a greedy man to prison for the rest of his life
   I can make a man forsake his country and flag
   Make a girl sell her body for a five-dollar bag

   Some think my adventure’s a joy and a thrill
   But I’ll put a gun in your hand and make you kill
   In cellophane bags, I’ve found my way
   To heads of state and children at play

   I’m financed in China, ran in Japan
   I’m respected in Turkey and I’m legal in Siam
   I take my addicts and make ’em steal, borrow, beg
   Then they search for a vein in their arm or their leg

   So, be you Italian, Jewish, Black or Mex
   I can make the most virile of men forget their sex
   So now, no, my man, you must, you know, do your best
   To keep up your habit until your arrest

   Now the police have taken you from under my wing
   Do you think they dare defy me, I who am king
   Now, you must lie in that county jail
   Where I can’t get to you by visit or mail

   So squirm, with discomfort, wiggle and cough
   Six days of madness, you might throw me off
   Curse me in name, defy me in speech
   But you’d pick me up right no if I were in your reach

   All through your sentence you’ve become resolved to your fate
   Hear now young man and woman, I’ll be waitin’ at the gate
   And don’t be afraid, don’t run, I’m not chased
   Sure my name is Heroin, you’ll be back for a taste

   Behold, you’re hooked, your foot is in the stirrup
   And make, haste, mount the steed and ride him well
   For the white horse of heroin will ride you to Hell, to Hell
   Will ride you to Hell until you are dead
   Dead, brother, dead

   This is a revolution of the mind
   Get your mind together
   And get away from drugs
   That’s the man
   Back, back”

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