I caught you knockin'
at my cellar door
I love you, baby,
can I have some more
Ooh, ooh, the damage done.
I hit the city and
I lost my band
I watched the needle
take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done.
I sing the song
because I love the man
I know that some
of you don't understand
Milk blood
to keep from running out1.
I've seen the needle
and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie's
like a settin' sun.
1. "This refers to how heroin addicts will often extract some of their own blood into a needle while they are still high to save for later since it still has trace amounts of heroin." (https://spinditty.com/genres/Songs-as-Poetry-Neil-Youngs-Needle-and-the-...)