Shot Of Love Lyrics - Polly Jean Harvey

( music of the millennium awards ) 

I need a shot of love 

I need a shot of love. 

Don't need a shot of heroin to kill my disease 

Don't need a shot of turpentine, to bring me to my knees 

Don't need a shot of codeine to help me to repent 

Don't need a shot of whiskey, help me to be president 

I need a shot of love 

I need a shot of love 

Doctor, can you hear me? I need some medicaid 

I seen the kingdoms of the world and it's making me feel afraid 

What I got ain't painful, it's just bound to kill me dead 

Like the men that followed jesus, they put a price upon his head 

I need a shot of love 

I need a shot of love 

I don't need no alibi when I'm spending time with you 

I've heard all of them rumors and you have heard em too 

Don't show me no picture show or give me no book to read 

It don't satisfy the hurt inside nor the habit that it feeds 

I need a shot of love 

I need a shot of love 

Why would I want to take your life? 

You've only murdered my father, raped his wife 

Tattooed my babies with a poison pen 

Mocked my god, humiliated my friends 

I don't wanna be with nobody tonight, veronica ain't nowhere, mavis just ain't right 

There's a man that hates me, he's swift, smooth and near 

Am I supposed to set back and wait until he's here? 

I need a shot of love 

I need a shot of love