The Lyric Book

Nina On The Ground With Needles

In the style of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" by The Beatles.

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Picture yourself on a skeleton in a graveyard
With bloody apple trees and weed skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with bloodshot eyes

Cellophane packets of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with needles in her arms
And she's dead

Nina on the ground with needles
Nina on the ground with needles
Nina on the ground with needles,
Ahhh

Follow her down to the bar by the strip club
Where drunk and stoned people eat intoxicated pies
Everyone smiles as you walk past the gunmen
That are so incredibly high

Newspaper taxis wait by the shore
Waiting to kill you away
Climb in the back and watch as they point the gun to your head
And you're dead

Nina on the ground with needles
Nina on the ground with needles
Nina on the ground with needles
Ahhh

Picture yourself on a train in a station
With Nikki Sixx's girlfriend and condoms galore
Suddenly someone is there smoking weed
The girl with bloodshot eyes

Nina on the ground with needles
Nina on the ground with needles
Nina on the ground with needles
Ahhh

Nina on the ground with needles
Nina on the ground with needles
Nina on the ground with needles
Ahhh

Nina on the ground with needles
Nina on the ground with needles
Nina on the ground with needles

Written By Isla Mercury

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Story Behind The Lyrics: "We found Nina in the bathroom with needles in her arms - she was passed out and was screaming out her nightmares. I found them quite interesting and decide to write a song about her." - Isla Mercury, 1967.