walking down the streets at night
i see her stumbling through the rain
a skinny figure in the dark
her face a shade of grey

begging here and barking there
she´s swearing all the time
her fingers fumbling with her hair
a dirty mess of grime

and she starts to cry and she´s asking why
her life´s always the same
but she does not see, that unfortunately
there´s no one here to blame

"heroin" she said, "was the best i had...
no more mountains left to climb.
the world so slow... all my dreams just too high
to be fulfilled in time...!"

she grabs my arm... and i feel alarmed
her fingers gripping tight
i see her pleading eyes... so i start to diguise
and say, that everything´s alright...

and the reason why i pretended and lied
is that i don´t want to kill
the poor dream that´s left in the deepest cleft
of the thing that she calls will...!

"heroin" she said...



Lyrics submitted by XorcistVAC

Track duration: 03:49

"Heroin, She Said" as written by Peter/reinhardt Heppner

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    Memory:well, i happen to be one that can relate to this song from firsthand experience. i was this girl. a fucking junkie. only better disguised, i was a small innocent-[looking] eighteen-year-old girl from the nice suburbs.
    as soon as i tried it, within a month, i was shooting up 3 times a day, and i did for a year and a half; yet i never considered myself addicted--until now when i'm looking back. even though i overdosed about 4 times and was dead for 15 minutes once. {the only way i'm alive and living semi-normally now is because i'm on methadone.}
    i had to hustle all day to maintain my high and not be sick all night. i'd wear pretty dresses and put on makeup and go to gas stations all around town, telling people fabricated sob stories about how my car was out of gas and i needed to get back home, to the next town. i'd get money from every guy, and even a lot of girls. ((lies, lies, lies. i told more lies in the time i was using, than every lie i've ever told in my entire life.)) as soon as i got the money, within the next hour, it would all be gone, down to the single fucking cent. all shot up in to my veins.
    oh, i wasn't new to drugs, either. before, i had done every drug imaginable, but i would switch between a lot of different drugs and i never developed a single addiction problem ((i even did meth for 2 years and one day just decided i didn't like it anymore and stopped, and never did it again. it was a piece of cake to get off that!)) until i met heroin. heroin is not like any other drug. heroin can NOT be used recreationally. trust me, don't ever get caught up in that vicious never-ending cycle.
    Flag charcoalsketchon March 06, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:This really is a great song, like most i was introduced to it at the club, but after picking up Spectators and Casting Shadows i seldom find myself listening to it. I think this song was always pretty self explanatory in its meaning. Now i've never done heroin, so i can't speak from experience, but i imagine it likely is speaking from the point of "once you've spent your life high on heroin, everything else seems pointless when you're not high". But, like someone else said, in depth exam not really neccesary ;-).
    Flag kutarkon December 03, 2007   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:This really reminds me of a certain girl I know that lived from high to high, but as soon as she wasn't everything went to hell. She managed to turn her life around eventually though when she had her baby, and (thank God or whoever), her baby was normal, but whenever I hear this song I remember the days when we were all sure she might die at any time. I hope her son never sees the person that's described in the song.
    Flag LaLaLogicon June 03, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:amazing song. he gets it exactly right,
    Flag thatshot3930on February 26, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Emo's don't need reasons.
    Flag kgangon January 04, 2006   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:Agreed. The best Wolfsheim song.
    So why did she say heroin. >_>
    Flag buddha boyon December 05, 2005   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Yea..I don't think an in-depth analysis of the lyrics is required here. It's still an awesome song.
    Flag mepon June 02, 2005   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:This is a great song, the music has such a dirty sound to it and the lyrics really get the vibe accross... I really like this band.... yeah. I'm so shitfaced!
    Flag partofthiswasmineon March 07, 2005   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Good heroin song for sure.... really captures the feeling ; )
    Flag FenixDownon January 03, 2005   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:LOVE this song.
    Flag Karlon April 12, 2004   Link

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