She’s Like Heroin Lyrics

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Genius Annotation

“She’s Like Heroin” makes a comparative of prostitution and drug addiction and, if you want to consider, talks about love too. The music is one of the poppiest songs on Hypnotize.

System of a Down as a band never played this live, but Malakian played in one solo live show:

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What have the artists said about the song?
Genius Answer

In the early ‘80s, all you’d see on Sunset Boulevard were prostitutes. That was before it got cleaned up. So that’s how I think of Hollywood. People who don’t live here see it as a fantasy land. But I see people giving up their morals, giving up their lives, giving up everything for this town. All the girls who came here to be actresses and ended up as porn stars; all the girls who came here to be models and ended up strippers… You talk to six or seven out of ten porn stars and they’d probably rather be doing something else. Strippers, too. […] They can end up on the street selling their asses too. It doesn’t have to be in a physical way, either; you can actually feel like you made it and still be selling your ass. I sold my ass before.

Daron Malakian, Guitar World

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