Alice Cooper: Poison Meaning

Poison Lyrics

Your cruel deep eyes
Your blood, like ice
One look could kill
My pain, your thrill

I want to love you but I better not
Touch (dont touch)
I want to hold you but my senses
Tell me to stop
I want to kiss you but I want it too
Much (too...

1. anonymous

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   Sep 15th 2009 !⃝

   When I first heard this song I didn't think Drugs or a marked man or prostitutes of anything like that! I guess loving vampires and stuff It actually reminds me of twilight. Sorry for all the Twi-Haters out there but thats just what it reminds me of!

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2. Kami_vampragon

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   Sep 10th 2009 !⃝

   Well, the way I see it, its about hi mloving someone who is basically forbidden, not because of a disease or anything like that, but something else, I'm guessing that the girls is not nessesarily a minor, but just to young for him. That or No body would see their relationship as being "right" because of something from the past or something like that.
   He is probly comparing her to poison to remind himself that he shouldn't be with her, no matter how much he wants to be. "I want to love you but I better not Touch, I want to hold you but my senses tell me to stop, I want to kiss you but I want it too much, I wat to tatse you but your lips are venemous poison" He wants to be with her, but yet again, he knows he can't.
   "Your poison,running through my veins, your poison, I dont want to break these chains" He knows he wants to be with her, and she wants him to, and the fact that he is resisting her, makes her want him even more.THere is alot more of this going through the whole song, read the lyrics and you'll see.
3. Frank

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   Mar 25th 2009 !⃝

   For me it is about a maried man who is in love with another woman, but because he is maried he shouldn't touch the other woman.
4. GuitarRocker2008

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   Feb 24th 2009 !⃝

   I agree that it is about girl he loves but cant touch but not beacuse of aids of geroin or vampirism that the person is a jailbate and is basically trouble and he would get in trouble and prison beacuse of her or her family will kill him or something alon those lines.

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5. anonymous

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   Feb 12th 2009 !⃝

   It's about a man who loves a women. "My pain, your thrill" means that she get enjoyment from his pain she inflicts on him. "I wanna kiss you but I want it too much" means that he wants to kiss her so much but he doesn't want to, in the next line "I wanna taste you but your lips are venomous poison" show he doesn't want to because some say a person can become additied to poison and kissing her may hurt him in one wy or another,
6. asterodera

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   Jan 11th 2009 !⃝

   This is definately a raunchy song, be it on the kinky, "my pain your thrill" side, or the forbidden fruit " i wan to love you but i better not touch" side.
   I guess its a song you interpret how you want in the sense that some may see the kinky side, or off limit side.
   Perhaps there's an element of the man's dark fantacy of kinkyness, but the girlfriend is not into that side, or perhaps has a no sex before marriage side, and this guy is just getting really frustrated in tune to an awesome rock song!
7. ChrisMc

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   Jan 6th 2009 !⃝

   When I listen to the song believe that it's about someone who loves or want a woman that has been turned into a vampire, although he want her he can never have her unless he gives his current way of life and be changed. Well that's the way I imagine the song to be about but I guess you could replace the vampirism with an STD/STI or an drug addition and the song would always have the same meaning, To get what you want you must first give something dear up.

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8. anonymous

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   Dec 8th 2008 !⃝

   I think this song is about him falling in love with someone he shouldn't. (Drug addicted prostitute kind of girl) He wants to love her, but he knows he shouldn't. But she always finds a way to draw him back to her.
9. anonymous

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   Jun 18th 2007 !⃝

   It's totally about a woman he's in love with but he knows she's off limits. Be it a disease or drugs. He wants but can't have.
10. ._nemo_.

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    Mar 5th 2007 !⃝

    I always took it that this song was about a buy who was into really kinky stuff with his girlfriend but wasn't sure that it was right to do that stuff wiuth her cause she's a bad person for him to be with.
    But that's just me :)
11. petros06

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    Aug 16th 2006 !⃝

    Heroin :
    
    As with sex , drugs & rock n roll. The needles & pins , under his skin , 1 look could kill , pain.
    
    I interpret this song about herion usage and his struggles with the chains of addication and uses the female sex object to glorify the drug.
12. Heavy_Metal_Rules69

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    Apr 28th 2006 !⃝

    Being attracted to someone who is either HIV+ or has AIDS

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