Niall James Holohan
Advertising Heroin
Some skinny girl
She’s retching over a filthy cistern
She’s too thin to even bear a child
Just like her dead sister

And they’ve pouring over papers advertising heroin
Swallowing the text whole
The only thing that’s passed their lips since 1995
When one died and the other O.D.’d

Some crazy, sad and vapid pallor
My androgynous hermaphrodite
That’s the girl I’m after
There’s nothing more attractive than a woman with no appetite
I mean, talk about a cheap date

Isn’t it so cool the way they’re advertising heroin?
Heroin
Isn’t it so cool the way they’re advertising heroin?
Heroin
Isn’t it so cool the way they’re advertising heroin?
Heroin
Isn’t it so cool the way they’re advertising heroin?
Heroin

Yes our drummers on the smack again
We’re real worried ‘cause he’s got a problem
Still while he’s got the shakes and going through withdrawal hell
We should put out a press release, we’ve got the sell the album

Isn’t it so cool the way they’re advertising heroin?
Heroin
Isn’t it so cool the way they’re advertising heroin?
Heroin
Isn’t it so cool the way they’re advertising heroin?
Heroin
Isn’t it so cool the way they’re advertising heroin?
Heroin

I run a cold bath for my friend
Pour a tequila
For I will not see her again
No, I never will
There’s nothing glamorous, it turns out, when all’s told
About dying face down in a pool of your own vomit, you know

Shame on muppets selling self-destruction to the college kids
Who know no better
If they had a brother doing crack just like the paper says
They’d fuck it off
They’d fuck it off
They’d fuck it off

Isn’t it so cool the way they’re advertising heroin?
Heroin
Isn’t it so cool the way they’re advertising heroin?
Heroin
Isn’t it so cool the way they’re advertising heroin?
Heroin
Isn’t it so cool the way they’re advertising, advertising
No alarms and no surprises
Heroin
Oh heroin
Oh yeah