Drive-By Truckers - The Unraveling

Heroin Again

Losing your joy
Playing with dangerous toys
Insulate yourself from life
And all of its big noise

Insinuate a fever dream
Instigate a requiem
Deafening explosion of shame
An orgasm inside your brain

Silly old men
Why you using heroin?
Thought you knew better than that
Thought you knew better than that

Beautiful lost girl
You turned your back on this mean sweet world
Taste of heaven, some part of you dies
'Til you're something you can't recognize

Race to no better thing
Dying using heroin
Just a discrepancy
Cutting life expectancy

I thought you knew better than that
Thought you knew better than that
I thought you knew better than that

Didn't '71 teach us anything?
Didn't '94 teach us anything?

It's covered me and tempted me
Never quite captured me
Always just turned away
I've lost so many friends that way

These are my friends
They're dying using heroin
I thought they knew better than that
I thought they knew better than that

I thought they knew better than that
I thought they knew better than that
I thought you knew better than that
I thought you knew better than that



Credits
Writer(s): Patterson David Hood
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Rosemary with a Bible and a Gun
  2. Armageddon's Back in Town
  3. Slow Ride Argument
  4. Thoughts and Prayers
  5. 21st Century
  6. Heroin Again
  7. Babies in Cages
  8. Grievance Merchants
  9. Awaiting Resurrection

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Altri album

  1. American Band (Deluxe Edition)
  2. Ramon Casiano (Live at 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA, 2018)
  3. Mystery Song (2024 Mix)
  4. The Complete Dirty South
  5. Goode’s Field Road
  6. Puttin’ People on the Moon
  7. Welcome 2 Club XIII
  8. The Driver
  9. Every Single Storied Flameout
  10. Welcome 2 Club XIII

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