The room is so dark and dreary
My life is now just an empty shell
The road that I have each day traveled
Has forced me to live in this hell
Weed that I first smoked days past
Used to comfort me and my pain
The feeling I get from this liquid
I now can now from no longer from refrain
I have watched my life slipping away
Not able to put on the brake
Just tell me God how much longer
Before my pitiful soul you reach down and take
In trembling hands I hold the spoon
As I hold it over that hot blue flame
Watching as the liquid fills the cup
This is to what my life has became
Now I see the clear liquid in that spoon
Thoughts are flying through my mind
That rubber hose I tie around my arm
I quickly look around me and find
My vein is standing out so strong and proud
Not knowing the damage it will receive
But this trip that I am about to enter
Will make my life all right or so I believe
I have the needle in my now sweaty hands
Trembling hands now draw the fluid on in
Making sure I had enough to release my pain
On my face is an empty and hollow grin
Now to that vein I take my needle full
Against my skin I place it now this day
Knowing as I push and watch it inward slide
That soon all my troubles will be washed away
Slowly I feed that fluid into my body
Drop by drop it has now entered my blood
Soon strange thoughts and feelings released
Through my body will, for me, flood
I pull the needle from my bleeding skin
Laying the needle down on the table there
I undo the band that was so tight in deed
And leaned back to relax in my chair
Now my mind is spinning so fast
As the effects of this heroin are hitting me
Not a worry do I have now in my life
As I have undertaken and set all them free
Suddenly I see where I am now
So invincible from my mind altering state
Along the ledge of a high building I walk
Knowing nothing can hurt me on this date
Then I turn and leap out into the dark night
Yes I knew in my mind then that I could surely fly
But my body fell rapidly to the ground
This would be the night that my troubles did die
Now no more heartache and fear will I face
No more will my body I now be able to abuse
God has shown pity on my soul and gathered me
As I have succumbed to the Heroin Blues
© Tall Mountain Dreamer
