Needle and the Damage Done [German translation]

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-...)

• Artist:Neil Young
• Album:Harvest (1972)