i saw the video for poison by alice cooper the other day. it was at a pub so i couldn't really hear what he was singing and the last time i heard the song was probably sometime in the 80s when i was small and cared not for lyrics, just the rock. anyway the video was alice rocking out (he may have had a riding crop with him) and then every so often there was a cut scene with a girl either in a skimpy bikini or underwear or topless but seemingly totally random to the rest of the video. needless to say the video was pretty seedy and i reckon there was some innuendo, possibly distasteful, in there. i was at a 'posi' hardcore show at the time so there were many people making snide comments at the appropriate moments. alot of people were burying their head in their hands when the song came on too.
That song is fucking amazing. Also, Alice admits he pretty much just wrote it as a track for strippers to dance to. The lyrics:
Your cruel device
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 much)
I want to taste you but your lips
Are venomous poison
Youre poison running through my
Veins
Youre poison, I dont want to
Break these chains
Your mouth, so hot
Your web, Im caught
Your skin, so wet
Black lace on sweat
I hear you calling and its needles
And pins (and pins)
I want to hurt you just to hear you
Screaming my name
Dont want to touch you but
Youre under my skin (deep in)
I want to kiss you but your lips
Are venomous poison
Youre poison running through my veins
Youre poison, I dont wanna
Break these chains
Poison
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 much)
I want to taste you but your lips
Are venomous poison
Youre poison running through my
Veins
Youre poison, I dont wanna
Break these chains
Poison
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 much)
I want to taste you but your lips
Are venomous poison, yeah
I dont want to break these chains
Poison, oh no
Runnin deep inside my veins,
Burnin deep inside my veins
Its poison
I dont wanna break these chains
Poison