I came to this country without a passport.
Ever since then I've been hunted and sought.
My little white grains are nothing but waste,
soft and deadly and bitter to taste
But I'm a world of power, 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-pound bag.

Some think my adventures of joyin' are thrilling
But I'll put a gun in your hand and make you kill'em.
In cellophane bags I've found my way
to heads of state, and to 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 them steal, borrow and beg
Then search for a vein in an arm or a leg.
So, be you Italian, Jewish, black or Mex
I make the most virile of men forget their sex.

So now my man, you listen, you'll 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 will identify me, I who an King?
Now you must lie in that filthy jail
Where I can't get to you by visit or mail.

So seek one with this comfort: we're gonna cough
Six days of madness, you might throw me off.
Curse me in name, defy me in speech -
But you'd use me right now, were I in your reach.

Throughout your sentence, reserved to your fate.
Fear not young man or woman. I'll be waiting at the gate.

And don't be afraid, don't run - I'm not chaste.
Sure, My name is Heroin, you'll come for a taste
Behold, you're hooked
Your foot's in the stirrup and you're making haste
Mount the steed and ride him well
For the White Horse of Heroin will ride you to Hell.