Poison

Album: Bomber (1979)
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  • Ah, watch out
    People tell me "You need to know better"
    Give me sermons 'bout the things I do
    You gotta love 'em, even wrote letters
    You know I even answered a few, I said
    I've been doing poison (poison)
    I guess I poisoned my life
    And I love poison (poison)
    It's better than marrying a wife

    On the road, the pace is getting frantic
    'Specially when your poisoned out your mind
    A flight of stairs is like swimming the Atlantic
    When you're poisoned, deaf, dumb and blind, I said
    I'll take my poison (poison)
    I guess I poisoned my life
    I wish I was poisoned (poison)
    I wish I'd poisoned my wife

    My father, he used to be a preacher
    Never taught me nothing but scorn
    If I ever catch him on the street, yeah
    I'll make him wish he'd never been born because
    He was poison (poison)
    And now he poisoned my life
    Yeah, he was poison (poison)
    I wish my mother wasn't his wife, no

    Poison Writer/s: Edward Alan Clarke, Ian Kilmister, Philip John Taylor
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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