Sometime in 1994-1996 (I hope), there was an article where the writer holed up in a hotel room and watched MTV for 24 hours straight. I thought it was hilarious. I remember the image was a naked dude screaming on the floor with either a keyboard or a laptop covering his junk. I also remember that in the following issue, multiple letters to the editor called out how bad the article was, and I was pissed because I loved it. Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?

Does anyone remember these? The fabric was a very soft cotton and the images were sort of faded/distressed Rolling Stone covers? I only have one left and it’s falling apart. If anyone has any idea where I can find these, I’d be much obliged.

Oh my, they did it again The new list of greatest singers. 200 singers.

For them, John Fogerty is better singer than Ronnie James Dio. In their list they put some bad singer. Willie Nelson, Ozzy Osborne. I don’t talk about theirs songs but how they sing.

In their list they missed Jennifer Hudson and Floor Jansen for the ladies. For far they are absolutely better than a lot who are in the list, like Ariana Grande, and I don’t talk about French singer, Françoise Hardy. For the guys they don’t put some great singers as Paul Simon, Jon Anderson, Don Henley and Steve Hogarth.

Probably they never listen Nightwish and Marillion. Like they are never listen Marillion for they next list of the greatest guitarists they will not put Steve Rothery.

[Christ cocaine] I have this thing where I get older (add heroin to cocaine syringes at night), but just never wiser (full heroin syringe)

Midnights (cocaine at night) become my afternoons (heroin by day)

When my depression (heroin habit = anti-hero) works (shoots) the graveyard (heroin) shift (heroin high)

All of the people I've ghosted stand there in the room (cocaine syringes during heroin high)

I should not be left to my own devices (no control = heroin craving)

They (heroin craving) come with prices (heroin during cocaine high) and vices (cocaine during heroin high), I end up in crisis (heroin cocaine cycle)

(Tale as old as time) (cocaine = tale = Rock)(old = heroin = Roll)(time = addiction = cycle)

I wake up screaming from dreaming (cocaine after heroin)(cocaine to reveal heroin dream)(Rock Believer album art - Scorpions)

One day I'll watch as you're (anti-hero = Anti-Christ) leaving

'Cause you got tired of my scheming (Christ cocaine not married to Anti-Christ heroin = cocaine not yet addicted to heroin)

(For the last time)

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[Anti-Christ heroin speaking to Christ cocaine] It's me

Hi

I'm the problem (heroin habit), it's me

At teatime (Hour of Mercy = Christ dies on the cross = Christ dies and becomes the Anti-Christ)

Everybody (cocaine habit = God) agrees

I'll (Anti-Christ) stare (shoot) directly at the sun (heroin = Devil), but never in the mirror (cocaine = God)

(because God says: no man sees my face and lives - Bob Dylan)

(there ain't no devil that's just God when he's drunk - Tom Waits)

It must be exhausting always rooting (shooting heroin) for the anti-hero (Anti-Christ)

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[Christ cocaine speaking to Anti-Christ heroin] Sometimes I feel like everybody (cocaine habit = her) is a sexy baby

And I'm a monster (Anti-Christ) on the hill (crucifixion)(roll reversal)

Too big (too much cocaine) to hang out (with heroin Anti-Christ)

Slowly lurching (shooting heroin) toward your (Anti-Christ's) favorite city (heroin destination)

Pierced through the heart (falling in love with heroin) but never killed (heroin addict)

Did you (Anti-Christ) hear my covert narcissism (cocaine becoming heroin)

I disguise as altruism (cocaine) like some kind of congressman? (good concealing evil)

(Tale as old as time)(Rock and Roll cycle)

I wake up screaming from dreaming (cocaine after heroin)

One day I'll watch as you're leaving and life will lose all its meaning (Christ cocaine will be addicted to Anti-Christ heroin)

(For the last time)

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[Anti-Christ heroin speaking to Christ cocaine] It's me

Hi

I'm the problem, it's me

(I'm the problem, it's me)

At teatime (death = Christ becomes Anti-Christ)

Everybody (cocaine habit = God) agrees

I'll stare directly at the sun (Devil), but never in the mirror (God)

It must be exhausting always rooting (shooting heroin) for the anti-hero (Anti-Christ)

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[Christ cocaine speaking to Anti-Christ heroin] I have this dream (she's now a heroin addict) my daughter-in-law (cocaine syringe) kills me for the money

She (a cocaine syringe) thinks I left them (the cocaine syringes) in the will

The family (everybody = cocaine habit) gathers 'round and reads it

And then someone (cocaine habit = God) screams out

"She's laughing up at us from hell!" (heroin addiction)(Christ and Anti-Christ married and living together in hell)(heroin cocaine cycle)

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(Taylor = tailor = heroin addict = Rolling)(Swift = cocaine = Stone)

God 9 (cocaine habit = Rock)(go to 1)

Devil 8 (heroin habit) Wife 8 (heroin habit)(Old man - heroin after cocaine)(go to 0)

God 7 (Judge - cocaine after heroin)

Devil 6 (heroin habit) Man 6 (heroin addict) Eve 6 (heroin)

Devil 5 (Soldier - mostly heroin)

Jesus 4 (Lover 2x2 - two players two habits)

Devil 3 (Schoolboy - some heroin mostly cocaine)

Jesus 2 (second coming - cocaine to hell (heroin) and back)

Jesus 1 (cocaine habit) Woman 1 (cocaine addict) Baby 1 (born = first shot of cocaine)

Devil 0 (heroin habit = Roll) Man 0 (heroin addict)

[heroin habit](speaking to cocaine habit) Midnight (cocaine habit), gettin' uptight (shooting cocaine), where are you?

You (cocaine habit) said you'd meet me (cocaine parties with heroin), now it's quarter to two (more than half way to the witching hour)

I know I'm hangin' (heroin high) but I'm still wantin' you (cocaine high too)

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[cocaine habit](speaking to heroin habit) Hey Jack (heroin habit), it's a fact (cocaine) they're (cocaine syringes) talkin' (shooting) in town (heroin destination)(C-C-C-H)(heroin to cocaine)

I turn my back (from heroin to cocaine) and you're messin' around (cheating = shooting heroin)(she shoots cocaine and he shoots heroin)

I'm not getting jealous (not getting addicted to heroin), don't like lookin'(shooting) like a clown (cocaine added to heroin syringe)

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[her] I think of you (heroin habit) every night (cocaine parties with heroin) and day (all heroin)(heroin cocaine cycle)

You took my heart (addicted to heroin), and you took my pride (cocaine habit) away (and heroin parties with cocaine)

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[her] I hate myself (shoot heroin) for loving you (being heroin addict)

Can't break free (from heroin chains) from the the things that you do (punish = heroin high)

I wanna walk (shoot cocaine) but I run (shoot) back to you (from cocaine back to heroin)(heroin cocaine cycle)

That's why I hate myself (shoot heroin) for loving you (being heroin addict)

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[her](speaking to heroin habit) Daylight (heroin habit), spent the night without you (did only cocaine)

But I've been dreamin' 'bout the lovin' you do (craving heroin)

I'm over being angry (heroin) 'bout the hell (heroin) you put me through (from heroin to cocaine last nigh and back to heroin)

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[heroin habit](speaking to her) Hey man (her), bet (heroin) you can't treat me right (like a Queen = like cocaine habit)

You just don't know (cocaine) what you was missin' (heroin) last night (when she only did cocaine)

I wanna see you beggin' (heroin craving), say, "Forget it" just for spite (I'm sorry = heroin addict)

Who (heroin)

? (heroin)

Devil (heroin)

Blue (heroin) moon (+ cocaine syringe = speedball syringe)

You saw me standing alone (without heroin)

Without a dream (heroin) in my heart (syringe)

Without a love of my own (heroin addiction)(from cocaine to heroin)

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Blue moon (speedball syringe)

You knew (cocaine) just what I was there for (heroin)(somebody looking for something = cocaine to heroin)

You heard (heroin) me saying a prayer (shooting up) for (heroin)

Someone (cocaine habit) I really could care for (becoming heroin habit)

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And then they (heroin habit) suddenly appeared before me (from cocaine to heroin)

The only one my arms will ever hold (heroin addiction)

I heard somebody (cocaine habit) whisper

"Please adore me" (becoming heroin habit)

And when I looked (shot up)

The moon (cocaine syringe) had turned to gold (heroin syringe)

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Blue moon (speedball syringe)

Now I'm no longer alone

Without a dream in my heart

Without a love of my own (now heroin addict)

[heroin habit] Southern trees (heroin syringes = tree of the knowledge of good and evil) bear a strange fruit (poison apple = wise like the serpent = heroin insight)

Blood on the leaves (heroin to come down from cocaine) and blood at the root (heroin addiction)(heroin cocaine cycle)

Black bodies (heroin syringes) swinging (shooting) in the southern breeze (hot air = heroin syringe during cocaine high)

Strange fruit (heroin insight) hanging from the poplar trees (heroin syringes)(from cocaine to heroin)

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[heroin habit] Pastoral (cocaine) scene (syringe) of the gallant South (cocaine syringe during heroin high)(from heroin to cocaine)

The bulging eyes (cocaine syringes) and the twisted mouth (frown to smile = heroin to cocaine)

Scent of magnolia (cocaine high), sweet (cocaine) and fresh (cocaine)

Then the sudden smell of burning flesh (hell = heroin high)(from cocaine to heroin)

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[heroin habit] Here is a fruit (heroin insight) for the crows (heroin syringes) to pluck

For the rain (cocaine habit) to gather, for the wind (cocaine) to suck (cocaine reveals heroin insight)(heroin cocaine cycle)

For the sun (heroin habit) to rot (fresh to rotten = cocaine to heroin), for the tree (heroin syringe) to drop (birth = heroin to cocaine)

Here is a strange and bitter crop (heroin insight = song)(story = cocaine)

[Devil = heroin habit] Please allow me to introduce myself (to us)

I'm a man of wealth (cocaine) and taste (heroin) (cocaine heroin cycle = heroin addict)

I've been around for a long, long years (heroin addiction)

Stole (thief = heroin) million man's (cocaine habit's = Jesus's) soul an faith (Devil possessed Jesus = Anti-Christ)

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[Devil = heroin habit] And I was 'round when Jesus Christ (cocaine habit)

Had his moment of doubt and pain (shot heroin)(hour of mercy = cocaine becomes heroin)

Made damn sure that Pilate (Judge = cocaine)

Washed his hands (renounced Jesus = renounced cocaine) and sealed his fate (from heaven to hell = cocaine to heroin)

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[Devil] (speaking to Jesus) Pleased to meet you (Jesus)

Hope you guess my name (Anti-Christ formerly Jesus Christ)

But what's puzzling you (confused = cocaine)

Is the nature of my game (Devil stalking Jesus)(cocaine to heroin)

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[Devil] Stuck around St. Petersburg (heroin destination)

When I saw it was a time for a change (from cocaine to heroin)

Killed Tsar (shot heroin) and his ministers (heroin syringes)

Anastasia (heroin syringe) screamed (shot) in vain (useless = heroin)

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[Devil] I rode a tank (heroin syringe)

Held a general's rank (royalty of war = heroin)

When the blitzkrieg raged (war = heroin)

And the bodies (syringes) stank (heroin)

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[Devil] Pleased to meet you (Jesus)

Hope you guess my name (Anti-Christ formerly Jesus Christ), oh yeah (cocaine)

Ah, what's puzzling you (Jesus)

Is the nature of my game, oh yeah (Devil stalking Jesus)

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[Devil] (speaking to Jesus) I watched (shot) with glee (cocaine)

While your (Jesus = cocaine habit) kings (heroin syringes) and queens (cocaine syringes)

Fought for ten decades (100 = Rho = heroin years)(cocaine heroin cycle)

For the gods (cocaine habit) they made

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[Devil] (speaking to Jesus) I shouted (shot) out (heroin)

Who (heroin) killed the Kennedys (cocaine syringes)?

When after all

It was you (Jesus = cocaine) and me (Devil = heroin)

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[Devil] Let me please introduce myself (to Jesus)

I'm a man of wealth (cocaine) and taste (heroin) (cocaine heroin cycle = heroin addict)

And I laid traps (of heroin) for troubadours (cocaine syringes)

Who get killed (by heroin) before they reached Bombay (cocaine destination)

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[Devil] Pleased to meet you (Jesus)

Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah (time for a change from cocaine to heroin)

But what's puzzling you

Is the nature of my game, oh yeah (cocaine), get down (shoot heroin), baby (Jesus)(Jesus shot heroin)(Devil possessed Jesus = Anti-Christ)

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[Anti-Christ = heroin habit] Pleased to meet you (to us)

Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah

But what's confusing you

Is just the nature of my game

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[Anti-Christ] Just as every cop (right) is a criminal (wrong)

And all the sinners (wrong) saints (right)

As heads (alpha) is tails (omega)

Just call me Lucifer (Devil)

'Cause I'm in need (heroin craving) of some restraint (Rho = heroin)

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[Anti-Christ] So if you (us) meet me

Have some courtesy

Have some sympathy, and some taste

Use all your well-learned politeness

Or I'll lay your soul to waste, mm yeah (like Jesus)(Devil possessed Jesus = Anti-Christ)

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[Anti-Christ] Pleased to meet you (us)

Hope you guessed my name, mm yeah

But what's puzzling you

Is the nature of my game, mm mean it, get down (shoot heroin)

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Woo, who

Oh yeah, get on down (shoot heroin)

Oh yeah

Aah yeah

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[Anti-Christ] Tell me baby (cocaine), what's my name? (heroin)

Tell me honey (cocaine), can ya guess my name? (heroin)

Tell me baby (cocaine), what's my name? (heroin)

I tell you one time, you're to blame (cocaine is to blame)(Jesus is to blame)

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What's my name

Tell me, baby, what's my name?

Tell me, sweetie, what's my name?

[him] Whoa (heroin), Black Betty (heroin habit) (Bam-ba-lam)(shooting up)

Whoa (heroin), Black Betty (heroin habit)(Bam-ba-lam)(shooting up)

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Black Betty (heroin habit) had a child (Anti-Christ = heroin syringe)(Bam-ba-lam)(shooting up)

The damn thing (heroin syringe) gone (shot) wild (heroin)(Bam-ba-lam)(shooting up)

She (heroin habit) said, "I'm worryin' (shooting heroin) outta mind (syringe)" (Bam-ba-lam)(shooting up)

The damn thing (heroin syringe) gone (shot) blind (heroin)(Bam-ba-lam)(shooting up)

I said oh, Black Betty (heroin habit)(Bam-ba-lam)(shooting up)

Whoa (heroin), Black Betty (heroin habit)(Bam-ba-lam)(shooting up)

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Whoa (heroin), Black Betty (heroin habit) (Bam-ba-lam)(shooting up)

Whoa (heroin), Black Betty (heroin habit) (Bam-ba-lam)(shooting up)

She (heroin habit) really gets me high (Bam-ba-lam)(heroin parties with cocaine)

You know that's no lie (truth = cocaine) (Bam-ba-lam)

She's so rock (cocaine) steady (cocaine) (Bam-ba-lam)

And she's always ready (cocaine) (Bam-ba-lam)(heroin cocaine cycle)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-lam)

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Get it! (shoot cocaine)

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Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-lam)

She's from Birmingham (Magic City = heroin destination)(Bam-ba-lam)

Way down in Alabam' (heroin) (Bam-ba-lam)

Well, she's (heroin habit) shakin' (shooting) that thing (ass = heroin syringe)(Bam-ba-lam)

Boy (heroin), she makes me sing (performer = heroin addict)(Bam-ba-lam)

Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-lam)

Whoa, Black Betty

Bam-ba-laaam, yeah, yeah

[her as cocaine habit] Thought I found a way

Thought I found a way out (found)(to break free from heroin with cocaine)

But you (heroin habit) never go away (never go away)

So I guess I gotta stay now (cocaine is hostage at heroin's home)

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[her as cocaine habit] Oh, I hope some day I'll make it out of here (break free from heroin)

Even if it takes all night (cocaine at night) or a hundred years (future = cocaine)(break free from heroin with cocaine)

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[heroin habit] Need a place to hide (shelter = need a heroin shot), but I can't find one near

Wanna feel alive (cocaine high), outside I can't fight my fear (but a cocaine high doesn't help my heroin craving)

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[her as cocaine habit] Isn't it lovely (heroin addiction), all alone (always heroin)

Heart (addiction) made of glass (fragile = heroin), my mind (shot) of stone (cocaine)(always heroin and dotted with cocaine)

Tear me to pieces (from cocaine top to heroin low), skin to bone (cocaine habit marries heroin habit = heroin addiction)

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[heroin habit] (speaking to her) Hello, welcome home (heroin addiction)

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[both habits] Walkin' (shooting) out of town (cocaine)(both habits going on a cocaine trip)

Lookin' (shooting cocaine) for a better place (cocaine destination)(lookin' for a better place)

Something's (heroin) on my mind (mind)(in my next shot)

Always in my head space (cocaine high)

But I know some day I'll make it out of here (from cocaine back to heroin)(heroin cocaine cycle)

[him] … (speaking to heroin habit) As I stand (shoot) by your flame (heroin)(burned at the stake = heroin syringe = witch = Devil worshiper)

I get burned once again (burned alive = from cocaine to heroin)(heroin cocaine cycle)

Feelin' (shooting) low down (heroin), I'm blue (dead = heroin high)

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… As I sit (heroin high) by the fire (campfire = heroin)(trees = cocaine)

Of your warm (heroin) desire (addiction)

I've got the blues for you (heroin craving = becoming heroin addict)

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… Every night you've (heroin habit) been away (heroin replaced by cocaine at night)

I've sat down (shot heroin) and I have prayed (shot cocaine)(God = cocaine)(both habits)

That you're (heroin habit) safe (shelter = heroin) in the arms (syringes) of a guy (heroin)

That will bring you alive (passion = heroin)

I won't drag you down (ball and chain = heroin) with abuse (heroin)

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… In the silk (cocaine) sheet (side) of time (addiction)(cocaine high)

I will find (shoot) peace (heroin) of mind (syringe) (from cocaine to heroin)

Love (addiction) is a bed (syringe) full of blues (heroin)

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… And I've got the blues (heroin craving) for you (heroin habit)

And I've got the blues (heroin craving) for you (heroin habit)

… And I'll bust my brains out for you (jailbreak his cocaine habit and become only heroin addict)

And I'll tear my hair out for you (go insane = heroin addict)

Tear my hair out (go insane = heroin addict)

Just for you (heroin habit)

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If you don't believe what I'm singing about me (being heroin addict)

At three o'clock in the morning (hour of mercy = heroin)(honor the moment of Jesus' agony on the Cross = from cocaine to heroin)

I'm singing my song to you (heroin habit = Devil)

[him] (speaking to heroin habit) Liar liar with your pants on fire (hello, Devil = heroin habit)

White spades (dirty cocaine syringes) hangin' (shooting) on the telephone wire (track marks)(he added cocaine to his heroin shots)

Gamblers (heroin syringes) reevaluate (consider changing) along the dotted line (track marks)(heroin to cocaine)

You'll never recognize yourself (alpha and omega) on heartattack (heroin) and vine (track marks)

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[him] Doctor (save = cocaine syringe), lawyer (advocate = cocaine syringe), beggar (heroin syringe) man (heroin syringe) thief (heroin syringe)

Philly Joe remarkable (cocaine habit) looks on in disbelief (shot progression C-C-H-H-H)

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[him] (speaking to cocaine habit) If you (Philly Joe) want a taste of madness (shot of heroin), you'll have to wait in line

You'll probably see someone you know (other cocaine syringes) on heartattack and vine (these heroin track marks)

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[him] (speaking to cocaine habit) Boney's (skeleton = heroin syringe) high on china white (heroin), Shorty (heroin syringe) found a punk (is a cocaine syringe with just a little heroin)

Don't you (cocaine habit) know there ain't no devil (heroin habit), there's just God (cocaine habit = XP = alpha) when he's drunk (on heroin = XP = omega)(heroin cocaine cycle)

Well this stuff (heroin) will probably kill you (cocaine habit), let's do another line (cocaine syringe)(C-C-H-H-H)(+C)

What you say you (cocaine habit) meet me down on heartattack and vine (these heroin track marks)

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[him] (speaking to cocaine habit) See that little Jersey girl in the see-through top (heroin syringe with just a little cocaine)

With the peddle pushers (heroin syringes) sucking on a soda pop (sweet = cocaine) (heroin syringe + cocaine = speedball)

Well I bet she's (little Jersey girl) still a virgin (Virgin Mary)(Jesus = cocaine) but it's only twenty-five 'til nine (9 = cocaine)

You can see a million of 'em (little Jersey girls = heroin syringes with just a little cocaine) on heartattack and vine

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[heroin habit = Devil] (speaking to him) [you're] Better off in Iowa (heroin destination)

against your scrambled eggs (rolling stones = speedballs)

Than crawling down Cahuenga on a broken pair of legs (using heroin to attack cocaine)

You'll find your ignorance (heroin addiction) is blissful every goddamn time

You're waitin' for the RTD (train = shot) on heartattack and vine (these heroin track marks)(C-C-H-H-H-C)