System of a Down: She's Like Heroin Meaning

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She's Like Heroin Lyrics

She's like heroin
Sipping through a little glass
I'm looking for some help
I need someone to save her ass

Chinese tricks in rooms
With ghost's of hooker girly dudes

Me and heroin, maybe we can make some cash selling
ASS
Selling ass...

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   anonymous

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   Dec 22nd 2006, 00:34 report

   
   

   The last interpritation makes sense if you think about it. It is talking about how guys go out with girls, and spend all this money on them. When he says 'selling ass for heroin' he is saying that all this money that you work hard for 8 hours a day, is thrown away on her, just like a heroin addict would be throwing his money away to buy heroin. God I hope I just made sense.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Nov 29th 2006, 18:59 report

   
   

   People people... It's not about her addiction to heroin. It's about him being addicted to her.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Apr 12th, 23:48 report

   
   

   its almost as if shes saying he is using money to buy heroin which could also be linked to buying girls. the lyrics clearly indicate a behavior having to do with prostitution. its a lifestyle that's addicting "like heroin" in which he "needs someone to save my ass"

   
   
   
   

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   DamarusX

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   Dec 27th 2012, 17:14 report

   
   

   Obviously this song is related to the previous one [Vicinity of Obscenity]. SOAD are talking about the same prostitute who is figured out to sell her self to give her boyfriend some money to buy heroin. In fact she wants nothing more but to be a little whore while her boyfriend would like to save her ass selling his own body, wearing a little dress (a women dress) for chinese tricks, because his girl has became like heroin. In the end he saves her but he needs some help to stop his real addiction.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Nov 10th 2010, 12:45 report

   
   

   Basic this person is addicted to heroine so they spent a whole load of cash on it, then eventually they run out of money and then she has to take on a prostitute job to get it back.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Jan 11th 2010, 17:09 report

   
   

   well, i thought its about him making money for herion from prostution... i think "shes like herion" means other people are addicted to her... but he also says "I need someone to help make cash selling ass for heroin" so that sort of implies he's selling the prostitute for the drugs

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Oct 7th 2008, 09:31 report

   
   

   This song like many others are about Daron girlfriend and flings he's had in the past. That's why Daron sings it. All the songs that relate to Daron are sung by him. This song is about an unemployed junkie couple struggling for money with prostitution their only source of income. The boyfriend in the picture gets depressed and jealous that his girlfriend is doing this so he sells himself as well.

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   jollyroger

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   May 11th 2008, 01:45 report

   
   

   System of a down were raised in hollywood.
   in which they had deep and seeing eyes.
   but hollywood is a plastic city
   in which this song explains is like..
   heroin is a feeling of belonging and happiness..
   sad in hollywood you have to sell yourself.
   
   sellout and sell your soul for happiness that is the thinking of hollywood. and well that mindrot has spread further then just there.
   
   hollywood and babylon are one in the same.

   
   
   
   

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   rllaxpimp00

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   May 3rd 2008, 14:26 report

   
   

   From what I have been able to get from the song is that the prostitute "SHE" is as bad as heroin. Not in the form of an addiction for the customer but as in the form of a profit. You sell heroin you get cash. You sell ass you get cash.
   
   When he is talking about Chinese tricks in room he is referring to a whore house and how people that go there bring drugs to do with the women that they are having sex with. When he is talking about he wants nothing less but to were a little dress he is talking about a heroin addiction makes you really skinny and you are basically like a prostitute because you are willing to anything to get that fix that you are looking for.

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    anonymous

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    Jan 15th 2008, 06:16 report

    
    

    I've heard, I forget the name, two or three songs by them that sound in favor of socialism, or at least against capitalism. This band is composed of people from eastern Europe (from what I've read, not necessarily accurate but if we assume it's true). They lived under an iron curtain if they were around before 1990 and apparently they survived a genocide which makes it more likely to speak against of for whatever they think caused it.
    She's like Heroin= Consumers, Americans, overall America, maybe right into capitalism... meaning that capitalism is addictive, and due to the fact that she wants nothing more than to be a whore means that all she wants to do is sell herself, which the band may see capitalism as bad and thusly present this idea as bad.
    Chinese phrase= The Chinese are/were communist/socialist, like what they want, but as their trade relations increase with the US they become less of either, meaning they're the ghost of their former selves.
    The fact that the person singing ends up needing to be saved himself means that he himself becomes addicted to capitalism/her.
    
    Other supporting facts
    "I need to make some cash"- both capitalism and socialism are political and economic policy.
    "me and heroin, maybe we can make some cash"- he's tried capitalism and sees its failures
    
    Problems: He wants to sell her ass and repeatedly states it...so is he really as good as the socialist ideas he sees?
    
    Remember this could be a simple paranoid opinion.

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    anonymous

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    Jul 13th 2007, 05:40 report

    
    

    "She wants nothing more, but to be a little whore, He wants nothing less, but to wear a little dress" She and He may be the same person, considering the fact that "She" or He is not currently in a mentally stable condition. The dress refers to "His" attempt at becoming a woman, transvestite.
    
    "She's like Heroin" As if to say of course that She/he is addictive sexually or sexually addicted.
    
    "Chinese tricks in rooms with ghosts of hooker girly dudes" Would be other's who have been in the same position as her. Also provides proof of trans-sexualities being a key part of the song.
    
    The song all in all focuses on an oriental transvestite male to woman prostitude addicted to heroin and in need of saving.

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    anonymous

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    Jan 22nd 2007, 13:17 report

    
    

    I think that the "chinese tricks in rooms with ghosts of hooker girly dudes" part brings an image of an old rent-by-the-hour hotel.
    
    I am no expert on this but I think that the victorian era's sexual hang-ups were brought down in part by literature which 'imported' oriental erotiscm from the east. So I would associate "chinese tricks" i.e. chinese bedroom tricks with both the sexual revolution and sexual repression.
    
    I would say "ghosts of hooker girly dudes" is referring literally to dead transvestite prostitutes in other words people consumed by drugs and prostitution; victims of modern culture.
    
    So I think that the "chinese tricks in rooms with ghosts of hooker girly dudes" part is about how people can be consumed by modern culture.

    
    
    
    

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    ramone

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    Sep 1st 2006, 17:57 report

    
    

    I think the message of this song is clearly heroin fucks you up. The line "selling ass for heroin" could be refering to how heroin turns people into prostitutes. At the end of the song he says I'm looking for some help I need someone to save my ass. This could mean he is addicted to heroin or it could mean that he realized that he is really fucked up for writing such a strange song. All in all its a pretty sweet song. I have no idea what the fuck chinese tricks in rooms with ghosts of hooker girly dudes means... I don't think there really is a meaning

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    anonymous

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    Aug 28th 2006, 15:04 report

    
    

    Its about human trafficking. "shes like heroin" she's worth some heroin. Selling people for heroin. "he wants nothing less but to wear a little dress"- they won't turn out to anything except being whores. Lets sell them. Human trafficking

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    anonymous

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    Aug 24th 2006, 21:38 report

    
    

    I think that this song is about a guy who obviously needs to get his high from heroin so decides to sell his girlfriend's/sister's body to get it. He goes around trying to sell her to every sleaze in town trying to make a buck. In the end he ends up in deeper then he can handle and ends up worse off because of it. This song is entirely a satire song.

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    anonymous

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    Jul 9th 2006, 21:09 report

    
    

    Actually-- "he wants nothing less but to wear a little dress" sounds to me like a referance to cross dressing, but I might be wrong.

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    SOAD4lyfe234

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    Apr 4th 2006, 20:23 report

    
    

    This song makes reference to prostitution caused by the drug selling, in which, according to the songs, people go to prostitution to afford money to buy drugs, like heroin; as is said in the lyrics, "Me and heroin maybe we can make some cash / Selling ass / Selling ass for heroin".

    
    
    
    

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    CicaTriz

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    Mar 3rd 2006, 15:45 report

    
    

    I think the entire album is about a view of the U.S. from the outside. This song however, is really not directed so strongly at the U.S. This song puts me in the mind of a flop-house in the far east; an opium den or something. Nothing much to live for. Stuck in a deep rut. Relating everything in terms of familiar addiction.

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    xCharlottexShadowsx

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    Feb 24th 2006, 15:23 report

    
    

    This song is about words you can and can't say on the radio. On the radio it will let you say every word but ass. Heroin, Hooker, anything but ass.

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    anonymous

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    Dec 24th 2005, 00:34 report

    
    

    the part about "he wants nothing less, but to wear a little dress" , and "chinese tricks in rooms with ghosts of hooker girly dudes" are about transvestites...at least that's the meaning that I took from it. oh and I like how at first he's trying to save her ass but then at then end he needs to save his own ass.

    
    
    
    

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    stuartwilson

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    Dec 1st 2005, 06:12 report

    
    

    She's like heroin's meaning is pretty self explanitary once you look at the lyrics.
    
    The whole song is about a prostitute who sells her body so that she can feed her drug addiction.
    
    The other meaning of the song is that the prostitute is like heroin because once you have had sex with her you always want to come back.
    
    System Of A Down are urging you to save prostitutes like her when they say "I need someone to save her ass."
    
    If anyone can think of anything I have missed then add your own suggestions.