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