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Date: 10 Feb 1993 18:14:53 -0700 (MST)
From: Paul Zimmerman
Subject: TAB: Heroin - Velvet Underground
To: jamesb@animal-farm.nevada.edu
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VELVET UNDERGROUND
Heroin
riff 1:
D G D G
|-2-------2---2-|-3-------3-----|-2-----3-2---2-|-3-------3---0-|
|-3-----3---3---|-0-----0---0---|-3---------3---|-0-----0---0---|
|-2---2---------|-0---0---------|-2---2---------|-0---0---------|
|-0-------------|-0-------------|-0-------------|-0-------------|
|---------------|-2-------------|---------------|-2-------------|
|---------------|-3-------------|---------------|-3-------------|
riff 2:
|-2----7----9---7----|
|-3----8----10--8----| listen to the song to get the timing for
|-2----7----9---7----| this part - it isn't broken up into bars
|-0------------------| here.
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riff 1 2X
D G D G D G D G
I don't know just where I'm going
D G D G D
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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!Ace Rhythm Player |
#1 by !Ace Youngs at Sep 21, 1972 at 8:26 PM EST |
| Excellent song. sorry about your friend mleurck. I wonder why they didn't use this song in the movie Trainspotting? For people who don't know Trainspotting is a movie about herion and i can think of some places where this song would have fit perfectly. | |
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Ben Wanna Be |
#2 by Ben Koss at Apr 12, 1980 at 9:28 PM EST |
| ...this song has never grown old on me but it grown with me...the meaning gives me this hope of nothing (the kind you get off watching fight club)...its become a sort of a chant to get the hell up and beat what's killing you are you'll get used to it...i turn up the volume everytime and scream my guts out. especially the 'jim-jim' line through 'and all the bodies piled up in mounds'...this is one of the greatest songs ever made for one reason, the sound fits the mood...and yet you don't see it on those damn vh1 lists...wdc | |
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mike Average |
#3 by mike rojas at Jun 21, 1982 at 6:10 AM EST |
| I love Lou Reed because he doesn't say something is good or bad he just goes, hey here it is, you decide. I think he is the most truthful song writer I've ever heard | |
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adrian Average |
#4 by adrian zamora at Dec 4, 1982 at 3:56 AM EST |
| matrixmouse they talk about this song in the book. you should read it if you havent yet. its much, much better than the movie and beautifully written. | |
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Dominic Badass |
#5 by Dominic Smith at Mar 9, 1983 at 2:53 PM EST |
| This is the most truthful message I think out there about heroin use...if you choose to do it you are making the decision to "nullify" your life. This song has always been enjoyable for me to listen to until the lyrics came true for someone in my life. My friend loved this song and then it basically became his suicide note. This past weekend my friend overdosed for the 4th time on heroin, but this time no one found him in time, this time. Now he is in a complete vegetative coma on full life support and only a 4% chance of ever waking up and a 0% chance of ever being a normal human being. He is now 98% brain dead. This song was playing on the CD player when he was found by my friend Erin. This song means so much to me now. Like the line "and you can't help me now, you guys and all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk/ you all can go take a walk". This is what he said to all his closest friends and family that tried to save him but he made the big decision long ago that heroin was his life and it would be this death. He was a spoiled middle class white boy that somehow thought heroin was cool. He had everything, a loving family, friends, material crap like a car and nice clothes, a place to stay, and then heroin came into his life and ruined everything. He also had this illusion that he could control it and it was not controlling him. But, look where he ended up. I think he didn’t realize that an overdose doesn’t always mean dying…sometimes there are thing worse that death. He is 23 and now because his parents couldn’t find the strength to “pull the plug”, he will spent the rest of his “life” in a nursing home. He tried to escape the city and it's evils by moving home with his parents out in the country, but even the heroin was too strong. I can never take this song lightly ever again. And I hope everyone who hears this song understands its true meaning and realizes that this song was in no way written to make heroin sound pleasurable. All it does is lead to death and disillusion. | |
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ScumFucBondage Average |
#6 by ScumFucBondage bumsex at Sep 3, 1983 at 9:19 PM EST |
| this song makes me sad since its about drugs and all that. my cousin john used it in his profile and i spazzed out and i was like "john you dont do that do you?". the lyrics in the song are dark and gloomy but the beat is awesome and i think its a fairly good song. | |
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Guitar Man Lead Player |
#7 by Guitar Man at Nov 18, 1983 at 8:26 PM EST |
| this song is amazing, i agree with perfect whore, i dont think they used the song in trainspotting because its obvious. but they did use a different lou reed song called "perfect day." its extremely well placed. | |
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kyle Badass |
#8 by kyle .,., at May 5, 1987 at 12:40 AM EST |
| the Velvet Underground was amazing, and this is quite possibly their most amazing song. its so solid all the way through. and to comment back on someone saying that Lou doesn't like Heroin, i don't think the song reflects that. rather i think it's him telling his experience through metaphors and the works.. | |
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The Four String Lead Player |
#9 by The Four String Mother Fucker at Nov 28, 1987 at 2:34 PM EST |
| To me,the sound just sounds like it's describing heroin.You don't know,you don't care and everything is peaceful-like this song. | |
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Eric Average |
#10 by Eric Phillips at Sep 8, 1992 at 6:43 PM EST |
| Lou just told it like it was. Fuck, here's to Lou Reed and the VU. Cheers. | |
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Forrest Average |
#11 by Forrest at Dec 10, 1992 at 6:37 PM EST |
| matrix mouse I think they probably didn't use the song heroin in trainspotting cos its a bit of a junky cliche cos its just such an obvious song. I'm sure Lou Reed did enjoy heroin I think its pretty impossible not to enjoy. but I don't think he enjoyed the conflicting sides, I mean addiction is never fun mind u I guess he could afford it. I think it shows a lot about junky mentality. Junk is a painkiller. And at the centre of the song is great unhappiness. Heroin is used to fill the holes in life "it's my wife and its my life". Its used to dull confusion note the slowing and returning to calm of the music as he comes to accept the conculsion "I guess that I just don't know". It shows heroin as an escape so the character in the song wants to "Escape from the big city". And the lyrics "Thank god that I'm good as dead and thank you god that I'm not aware" Shows that this person is grateful to be half dead. The junky is searching for oblivion its a kind of alternative to suicide. He even acknowledges it int the line "be the death of me". He knows what he's doing and what he's heading for. And if it doesn't kill you physically its gonna kill u inside till all u have is a need to fulfil. And I love the way that the song mimics the rush from its slow beggininngs to the frenzied middle and the come down. | |
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#12 by at Mar 29, 2004 at 7:27 AM EST |
| bush is whore. im not american and just say this here for the humanity's sake and for those americans that come here with their head full of lies and ignorance. "the truth will free you" | |
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Jordan Lead Player |
#13 by Jordan Gadsby at Dec 17, 2006 at 6:01 AM EST |
| Most people, even some VU fans either dont know, or dont appreciate this song. This song is probably VU/Lou Reeds best song in my opinion. Truthful. Dark. Detailed. "Closing in on death" It describes Heroin as going to the brink. The structure of the song is someone coming up and down from Heroin, and it shows the dark trap the person is in. Great, great song. | |
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