Alice Cooper: Poison Meaning
Poison Lyrics
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...
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#1 top rated interpretation:On the surface, this song is about a man who is in love with (or has a crush on) a woman. The woman is sexy and attractive ("your mouth, so hot" "i wanna kiss you" "i wanna touch you") etc, but cruel. She's the kind of person who gets a kick from men falling for her. ("your cruel device" "my pain - your thrill"). Maybe the woman will even let him... do all the things he wants to do ;-) but he knows that will make the problem worse ("i better not touch") She is already "under [his] skin". If he gives into his desire, he may lose himself.
(To those who suggested the woman in the song may be too young, or under age... you are welcome to read the song that way, but I can see no specific evidence in the song to back up your claim. Would you care to elaborate?)
On a deeper level, the woman may certainly be a symbol for heroin, as others have suggested. (he "better not touch", he "wants it too much"), and heroin is, actually, poison. It's already "running through [his] veins" and because it's so addictive, even if he had come off it when he (with Desmond Childs and John McCurry) wrote this song, he would still have been prone to cravings. So he is still addicted, and a part of him doesn't want to "break these chains".
As for being about AIDS? That metaphor doesn't work at all. Why would a person be simultaneously attracted to, and disgusted by AIDS? Why would a person say "I don't want to break these chains"? AIDS is not "hot", and it doesn't call you ("i hear you calling") like a woman might, or like you might imagine heroin does, if you were an addict.
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#2 top rated interpretation:He says on a recent interview that this song is about his alcohol and drug addictions, if you piece it together this was his first sober album and he would have written it whilst in rehab, so it makes sense that he wrote this realising that alcohol and drugs are not good for him and are his Poison.
However it is clear in the film clip that they tried to make it about love and sex with the gorgeous but naked woman in it. Come on though, who would wanna watch a man injecting himself and being locked up in a mental institution, this was way better.
I personally take this song as a love song, cos it's so vivid and dark and I'm rather kinky so it suits me perfectly, I feel love run through my veins and burn deep inside me so yeah. This is the most beautiful song of all time, I love you so much Alice Cooper -
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#3 top rated interpretation:The song is in general about loving someone you shouldn't. My interpretation is that it's about being in love with someone who doesn't love you in return but still wants to be your friend, and how her presence in your life is "poison running through your veins", because you want to move on really bad, but you're stuck loving this girl you can't love (I wanna love ya, butI better not touch), but she still wants to be in your life (I hear you calling and its needles and pins) and the pain that comes with the girl still being in your life (My pain, your thrill).
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What if it's about loving a family member, cousin, sister etc. "Poison running through my veins" (the same/similar blood). Rest of the lyrics seem to fit too...
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Alice Cooper is christian and the song is about the devil and how we always are attracted to sin and evil even tho we know that it is wrong.
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I like to think it BDSM. My pain your thrill. Being in chains.
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It could be about drugs but I found that poison is a women who is very beautifull, more then his wife. Her wife is a chain which he musnt break if he wants a normal life. When he says "poison" he expres hate because he blames geogeus woman for taking his minds away from the right direction. So the best thing is to sing a song about her and to make it count by becaming better artist.
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I think that this song brilliantly expresses the angst and internal conflict of being addicted to something really bad for you.
It could be a co-dependant relationship with someone, or a sustance or even a behaviour or habit that is really destructive for us, but that we are so 'hooked' on you cannot tear yourself away.
The songs genius in my opinion is in the strength of it's musical marriage between epic rock riffs, and crystal clear, superb word pictures; expressing that central theme. -
Heroin and pussy. The end
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Hey, I heard that ever since the trail blazer Alice Cooper was a child having a baby snake as his pet that he found in his backyard and named it ''Alice'' after a joyful little girl that he liked in Sunday school, he became in love with snakes to even performe with on his stage shows and sometimes used them symbolically out of love, fear and respect for them to relate to the mysteries of a woman that he may have been in love with cautiously.
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I want to hurt you just to hear you
Screaming my name
this line is epic so don't ruin it's epicness
I think a woman and maybe drugs are combined in this song, maybe he can't have the girl of his dreeams because of drugs or something as much as he wants the girl he has to fight his deamons within. so he is having a hard time fighting his one self. -
He's so deepily in lust with a woman that he thinks it's love and she uses this to her advantage despite it hurting him.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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That alice cooper may have a few to many problems for anyone to figure out
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SImple meaning:
It's about loving someone but you can't express this love too you can't just run up to this person and kiss them and tell them this.
this could put on many meanings: while the song was written Alice was probably thinking about love with one who is HIV+.
yet the song could apply with loving them yet they do not love you back and you could interpret that how you wish. -
He loves an under aged girl and knows he can't have her.
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