PJ Harvey, December 1999, Music Of The Millennium Awards, Channel 4. Polly chose Bob Dylan as her Musician of the Millennium and performed this tribute.
Lyrics:
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
Doctor, can you hear me? I need some Medicaid
I seen the kingdoms of the world and it's making me afraid
What I got ain't painful, it's just bound to kill me dead
Like the men that followed Jesus when they put a price upon His head
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 I know you heard em too
Don't show me no picture show and don't give me no book to read
It don't satisfy the hurt inside, the habit that it feeds
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?
