Poison is an American United States glam metal band that achieved success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. To date, the band has sold 14.5 million records in the United States alone. The band has also charted 10 singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, including six Top 10 singles and one #1. After 25 years, the band is still recording music and performing. [read more] - Lay Your Body Down
I've spent my life waitingFor that famous final sceneI believe you know the one--When she falls in love with meAs for you, you've been fakin' your smileFillin' your time on small talkAnd cheap wineKnowing in your...
- Let Me Be The One
So you want to talk about the painTalk to me, please explainMaybe I know what your going throughYou got so much pain to hideYou keep it locked up deep insideIn a room no one gets toI can't feel the way you feelMaybe...
- ***ual Thing
(Laughing)Jam Blues ManThere you layAll by yourselfSo please allow meto introduce myselfI welcome youTo the house of sinOpen your mindAnd let the games beginI'm your lustand I'm your greedI'm every sick thoughtthat...
- Set You Free
When you was a child life's a gameBut you got all the rules all changedPray to a spiritual God for material thingsThen wait by the phone but it don't ringSo if you feel like you fell behindThat mountain's got too big...
- The Best Thing You Ever Had
(Yeah, Blues!)I won't ask where you're goingIf you don't ask where I've been'Cause if you're looking for an answer, babeI wouldn't know where to begin.I don't know what I want sometimesBut I sure know what I...
- Best Thing You Ever Had
(yeah, blues!)I won't ask where you're goingIf you don't ask where I've been'cause if you're looking for an answer, babeI wouldn't know where to begin.I don't know what I want sometimesBut I sure know what I...
- Doin' As I See On My TV
When I was a child staring at the tubeI saw ***, violence and death on the newsOne day I saw the Duke kill someoneDaddy said don't worry boy, they're just acting sonAll I want is attention from somebodySomebody pay...
- Be The One
So you want to talk about the painTalk to me, please explainMaybe I know what your going throughYou got so much pain to hideYou keep it locked up deep insideIn a room no one gets toI can't feel the way you feelMaybe...
- I Want More
Well she stepped into the roomRight then she got my eyesShe had an***like a truckand two amazing thumping thighsShe's been like no otherJust one big fat mother freakSo ????She likes whips and chains and thingsShe...
- Face The Hangman
Looking for what I needI heard a tale that somewhereThat a dude had a real go at meSo like a rat race cowboyI slipped into the human zooHeaded down some troubleGot myself a drink or twoWell I took to the streetsAnd I...
- No Ring, No Gets
Lately boy, your head ain't rightAnd nothing seems to thrill youWord on the streets is No *** no more 'cause, it'll kill youYou touch, she bites,You push, she shovesThen she yells in your earNo glove, no loveOh, it...
- Mr. Smiley
I heard a funny thing about meLately I've been living on the edgeI won't say that ain't true, But who the hell are youI don't recognize my own face or my friends.Chorus:Hey, Mr. SmileyRead the writingon the wallWake...
- That's The Way I Like It
When it's boy meets girl and it starts a fireTwo hearts burn with your desireA candle burns a midnight oilLoves the love and raise the spoilChorus:When the girl goes downThat's the way I like it, like it, like it,...
- Baby Gets Around
I can't say I ain't been aroundThat I ain't done my timeSeems like this big old worldHas been one big shoe to shineBut I never ever took a dimeFor what comes naturallyAnd if I never knew the truthWell she'd be fine...
- Cover Of The Rolling Stone
Coughing, Blues?: "Gol, Bret--don't touch me there!"Bret: I'm gonna tell you who we are.Well we're big rock singerswe got golden fingersAnd we're loved everywhere we go(That sounds like us)We sing about beautyand we...
- Shut Up And Make Love
Drop the bass!(Do you like that?)Shipped out on of kneesHer old man thinks you're a social diseaseDog pissed on the floor left a stainYour old lady's daddy driving you insaneShe stopped taking the pillThen left you...
- Crack A Smile Unfinished Demo
Uh. Here it comes. Well, funky monkey's in the jungle tonight. They got two by two. Didn't get me right. They playing loudest baby. Gone as the day when the days are gone. I said, "gone." When the money money gone And...
- One More For The Bone
Well she stepped into the roomRight then she got my eyesShe had an***like a truckand two amazing thumping thighsShe's built like no otherJust one big fat mother brick houseSo impressed to find those breastsA little,...
- Tragically Unhip
I'm uneducatedMy clothes outdatedI'm not politically correctI still hate small talkAnd fast cars and hard rockStill adds up my?I should be expressing All my inner repressionI guess depression's now a cultural thingMy...
- Something To Believe In
Well I see him on the TVPreachin' 'bout the promised landHe tells me to believe in JesusAnd steals the money from my handSome say he was a good manBut Lord I think he sinned, yeahTwenty-two years of mental tearsCries...
- Nothin But A Good Time
Now listenNot a dime I can't pay my rentI can barely make it through the weekSaturday night I'd like to make my girl But right now I can't make my ends meetI'm always workin', slavin' every dayGotta get a break from...
- I Wont Forget You
Late at night I close my eyesAnd think how things coulda beenAnd when I look backI remember some words you had said to meIt's better to have lost at loveThen never to have loved at all*I won't forget you baby, (I...
- Talk Dirty To Me
You know I never, I've never seen you look so goodYou never act the way you shouldBut I like itAnd I know you like it tooThe way that I want youI've gotta have youOh yes I doI never, I never ever stay out lateYou know...
- Unskinny Bop
What's got you so jumpy?Why can't you sit still, yeah?Like gasoline you wanna pump meAnd leave me when you get your fill, yeahEvery time I touch you honey you get hotI want to make love you never stopCome up for air...
- Your Mama Dont Dance
Your mama don't dance and your daddy don't Rock and rollYour mama don't dance and your daddy don'tRock and rollBut when evening comes around and it's time toHit the townWhere do you go - You gotta rock itThe old folks...
- Fallen Angel
She stepped off the bus out into the city streetsJust a small town girl with her whole lifePacked in a suitcase by her feetBut somehow the lights didn't shine as Bright as they didOn her mama's TV screenAnd the work...
- Every Rose Has Its Thorn
We both lie silently still in the dead of the nightAlthough we both lie close togetherWe feel miles apart insideWas it somethin' I said or somethin' I didDid my words not come out rightTho' I tried not to hurt...
- Can't Bring Me Down
My chick is driving me crazyShe thinks that I'm lazyJust because I'm good at nothing all dayMy baby don't get itSo my job, I quit itBust my ass,Hell I barely get paidPeople like to put me downAnd just because I hang...
- Strange
I was heading down the highwayShe's going my wayShe climbed in, the next thing I knewWe started laughing and smoking,We got to talkingYeah, we'd both been hurt a time or twoI knew she didn't love meBut I didn't think...
- Power To The People
Good evening people, Welcome to my partyBring on the night, let's get it startedYou want blood on the stage, well baby you've got itI welcome all the people who have truly been my friendsFck all the bitches who broke...
- I Hate Every Bone In Your Body But Mine
In one ear and out the otherTold myself this girl is trouble, yeahEveryone that looks at herIs tragically struck in loveBridgeWait a minute...This chick's got me addictedI hate her so even though I wish she was my...
- The Last Song
When I lost my wayYou were my lightWhen the others wronged meYou did me rightWhen I look in your eyesDon't tell me liesYou tell me the truthYour words, they get me throughThis is all I've gotThis is all I'd sayIf this...
- I Want Action
I want action tonightSatisfaction all nightI grab my hat and I grab my shoesTonight I'm gonna hit the streets and cruiseDown the main strip and check it outWith those schoolgirls a hangin' aroundNow I'm a sucker for a...
- Stand
We all carry the cross and speak what we're taughtLies and money become the white man's godWe've burned all our bridges one too many timesThe time has come now to draw the lineChorus:You know you've got toStand,...
- Your Mama Don't Dance
Loggins-MessinaChorus:Your Mama don't dance and your Daddy don't rock and rollYour Mama don't dance and your Daddy don't rock and rollBut when evening comes around and it's time to hit the townWhere do you go--You...
- I Won't Forget You
Late at night I close my eyesAnd think of how things could have beenAnd when I look backI remember some words you had said to meIt's better to have lost at love Then never to have loved at allChorusI won't forget you...
- Look What The Cat Dragged In
I went to bed too late and got up too soonMy poor head still spinnin' from too much boozeI got a foot in the gutterA foot in the graveI ain't seen homeIn the last three daysChorus:Oh my god look what the cat dragged...
- Cry Tough
Remember the nights we satand talked about all our dreamsWell little did we know thenthey were more distant than they seemedWell I knew ityou knew it tooThe things we'd go throughWe knew the things we had to doto make...
- Nothin' But A Good Time
Now ListenNot a dime, I can't pay my rentI can barely make it through the weekSaturday night I'd like to make my girlBut right now I can't make ends meetI'm always workin' slavin' every dayGotta get away from that...
- So Tell Me Why
I'd like to put to rest the rumoursI'd like to put to rest the liesI'd like to throw away the pastAnd show you how I feel insideI'll be your taxi and your driverI'll be your road if you needI'd like to push and push...
- Devil Woman
Mr. Rockett, give me some drums!!She'll slide you in, you taste the sinShe slowly gets inside your headYou feel her take control and she'll steal your soulShe's the devil lying in your bedShe's the lord of your thighs...
- Wasteland
Alone on my steel horse I rideThe engine echoes in the nightThrough a concrete jungle a wasteland i call homeNo fears and no regretsNo apologies for the things I've saidAnd believe me child it's the life I've...
- Home (Bret's Story)
*chorus*I want to goI want to go home nowI want to goI want to go home now(Let's go)Saturday night Rainbow bar and grillWhere there's Cocaine lines and a little white pillA beer and a gin, now I can't see straightSlip...
- Wishful Thinkin'
Came to HollywoodGonna be a movie starShe got off the busBut she didn't get farNow she can act as good as Meryl StreepDreams of stardom when she sleepsThe casting couch just makes her screamWasn't like this in her...
- Shooting Star
A small town girl with big time dreamsBut nothing's ever as it seemsA mother waves her girl goodbyeThen slowly hangs her head and criesHollywood hills and the big city lightsOutside her window they burn brightSomeday...
- Stupid, Stoned And Dumb
My baby said she don't want to see my faceShe kicked me right on out of her placeNow I'm back with the band and my girl is long goneShe broke my heart bad so I wrote down this songI'm about as sad as they comeYea, I'm...
- Rock Star
(Who the hell you guys think you are Rock Stars or sumthin')Oh yeah!Limousines, champagneGet my clothes custom madeI take handfuls of pillsTrash my house in the hillsSmash up my carsJust to get me my thrillsI'm...
- Emperor's New Clothes
Now that you've been bought and soldYou don't have time to fix the mess you're inAnd if I may be so bold I bet you couldn't even do it again*pre-chorus*Lying like yesterday's paper just outside the door*chorus*Now you...
- Home (C.C.'s Story)
*chorus*I want to goI want to go home nowI want to goI want to go home nowYou know I never ever thought I would say just how much I love L.A.Until we got aboard a plane and toured around the worldWe went to London,...
- Squeeze Box
Mama's got a squeeze boxShe wears on her chestAnd when daddy comes homeHe never get no rest*chorus*Cause she's playing all nightAnd the music's all rightMama's got a squeeze boxDaddy never sleeps at nightThe kid won't...
- Hollyweird
Welcome to my cityThe girls are so damn prettySuch a pity, they don't come for freeJust call me pimp daddyI'll roll ya one big fattyI think you're gonna like a hangin' with me*chorus*Welcome to my city of sinI believe...
- Get 'Ya Some
Good God what do I seePretty little thing justLooking at meOhhhh, ohhhh ***y thingI say walk that thingRight over hereJust one thing I've got to make clearOhhhh, ohhhh ***y thing*pre-chorus*The way you move your...
- Livin' In The Now
Got no time to think about good intentionsGot no time to think about indiscretionsDon't want to think about past reflectionsDon't want to think about tomorrow*chorus*Cuz I'm living in the now, yeaHold tight, it'll be...
- Bad To Be Good
There's an alley cat slowly walkin' down a dirty streetWatching a cop on the take marching to his city beatYou got five fingers Johnny stealing everything in sightYou gotta be bad to be good in the dead of the...
- Good Love
Well, I calls my baby on the telephoneShe says hurry home Bret cause I'm all aloneOh now giddyap, hurry, and don't be lateCause a b-b-b-b-baby I just can't waitShe starts talkin' dirty right in my earMaking herself so...
- Look But You Can't Touch
Good girls go to heavenbad girls go to hellThe rest of them get richAnd do just what they feelWell rich boys live in housesAnd poor boys live in sinThe rest of them get marriedAnd are never seen againWell let me tell...
- Back To The Rocking Horse
Like thisAll the king's horsesAnd all the king's menAin't got a hope in hellOf puttin' my pieces back together againI've seen things in my life that should never be seenI'm talkin' things that'd make your skin crawlI...
- Love On The Rocks
She goes down slow like a shot of ginShe's got an angel's face and a devil's grinShe kinda stared me down as I looked her upShe said "I'm your poison, now you drink a cup."In the heat of the night is when she comes...
- Tearin' Down The Walls
You're my fatal attractionOh, no, I can't stopYou're my midnight fantasyYou're my cream of the cropI'm comin' home girlI'm comin' homeYou're my soaking wet ecstasyLike *** on the beachI wanna take you home now...
- Swampjuice (Soul-O)
(Instrumental)
- Life Loves A Tragedy
Of all the words that I've spokenAnd lies that I've toldOf all the hearts left brokenBegged for, bought, and soldLord I'm feeling lonelyFeel like I can't go onThe streets have all grown cold nowThe mysteries all...
- Life Goes On
I felt this beforeNow I feel it againNo matter how hard I tryThis feeling won't endSo I pretend you're here by my sideTonight on this lonely rideI keep telling myself thatChorus:Life goes on while you're miles awayAnd...
- Poor Boy Blues
My daddy said"Son, don't you come to me cryin'Cause money don't make you a happy man"He said the grass is always greenerAny place except where you standHe said some are born to winAnd some born to loseAnd sing them...
- Valley Of Lost Souls
I hit the highwayTouch life barely sixteenNo angel of mercyComing down to save the soul of meI took a Greyhound limousineStraight to grand central NYCIt was ass, gas, or grass, living fastNobody rides for...
- (Flesh & Blood) Sacrifice
Like animalsTonight we make itYou give me an inch,I'm gonna take itI'll steal your love Like a thiefTo be as one is my beliefDon't look back and have no regretsLike beasts of prey we must feed on itI'll be your one,...
- Ball And Chain
Come on, come onGet on your dress and put on a smileLets lose this place and get out awhile, awhile, awhileYou don't need nothin' fancyJust a whole lot of attitudeI'll be your man now babyIf you're doing what I want...
- Ride The Wind
Hearts of fireStreets of stoneModern warriorsSaddle iron horses of chromeTaste the wildLick the windLike something they never saw beforeTheir jaws dropping to the floorSteel made of soul and sinRebels born without a...
- Let It Play
Did you ever get up on the wrong side of bedWith an achin' head and just fall apart?You're running late, the boss is bitchin', It's cold outside, and the car won't startWell I don't mean to bitch I swearCause we all...
- Don't Give Up An Inch
Chorus:Don't give up an inch girlIf you won't take me for the mileDon't give up an inch girlIf you won't take me for a mileMiles from home and I'm all aloneAnd looking for a first timeWe took a long rideAnd there by...
- Strange Days Of Uncle Jack
(Instrumental)
- Come Hell Or High Water
I've got no worriesI've got no regretsWho they think they're kiddingThey ain't seen nothing yetYou point my finger try to tell me I'm wrongThat never stopped me from singin' my songI got the last laugh at the things...
- 7 Days Over You
Well it's Friday night and I'm waitingOn your call girl, like I doAm I wasting my time by this telephone lineWaiting on your call to come throughChorus:I should be already over youTell me Mama, what can I doIt's been...
- Ain't That The Truth
Now pardon my personal demons, child but if you do insistSit down and listen to me story awhile, cause it goes something like thisThe joint was small but we were having a ballAt a place called the Blue Duck InnWhen I...
- Richie's Acoustic Thang
Instrumental
- The Scream
A verdict heard by the jury's word...they're lyingI watch as the victims of the slave ships battle with the demons insideBut no wrong ever righted or proved by the innocent dyingI pray from the ashes of the ruins, the...
- Native Tongue
Instrumental
- Strike Up The Band
Living off the friends we madeNever ever getting paidKicking***and paying duesLose our mind in self abuseLoving ladies by the scoreWaking up and wanting moreI hope my Mama understandsWhen I strike up the bandWell I...
- Until You Suffer Some (Fire And Ice)
Lately I can tell that something ain't rightI don't see the fire when I look in your eyesOne time up, and the next time downThis may be the last time that you see me around, saidWell it sure seems to me nothing...
- Bring It Home
Stand and rise and before your eyes the lions will appearAnd when they do they'll be filling you with all the lies you will need to hearMr. Politician, just keep on dishin' your shit for the TV screenTurn off his...
- Bastard Son Of A Thousand Blues
Well it's four o'clock in the morningand I'm knocking on your doorShe says she's tired of meDon't want me here no moreShe said stop your pissin' and moanin' and groanin'go sleep outside with them dogsNow honey let me...
- Ride Child Ride
Well I'm sitting here this eveningI've got some old friends on my mind, yeah I doYeah, me and Slick and Davy saluting Mr. DanielsFor the very first timeWe was jamming to old Jimi, singing Purple Haze, no doubt, no,...
- Stay Alive
Listen up, child, there's one thing I've got to make clearYeah, I doYou don't see it cominghear it coming Acting like you know nothingAbout that strange rumor going on around hereTake me back to the land of the...
- Blind Faith
In a smoky roomCould have been a devil's tomb90 miles east of LAFeeling desperate and coldBarely 19 years oldSearching for the light in the pouring rainI visualize the cold realityIf I don't try, the answer dies...
- Theatre Of The Soul
On a cold night in a hotel in New Orleanscame the final blowAnd somehow somewhere we lost sight in our search for that pot of goldAnd all that happened I don't understandCould somebody here, somebody please explain to...
- Body Talk
Like this....I've never seen a woman babyThat looks quite the way you doThe way you shake that thing now honey,Can't take my eyes off youThe way you work it honeyIt brings me to my kneesYou give me what I'm looking...
- Blame It On You
She's got pizzazzlike a razzmatazzI'd like to slide it inbut where do I beginWastes all my moneyspends all my timeI ain't got no luckcan't change her mindChorus:Blame it on youI can't stand upBlame it on youI'm...
- Want Some Need Some
All my friends have someoneI need someone tooSomeone to hold the whole night throughI need a loversomeone like youSomeone to make my dreams come trueMaybe if I close my eyesEverything will be alrightCause I don't...
- Play Dirty
The boys in the back roomBilly shooting poolTrading dirty glanceswith pretty boys playing coolThey're putting down their whiskeyGetting loaded tonightIt's gettin' kind of riskyThey're lookin' to fightIf you want...
- #1 Bad Boy
What you heard about meWas probably rightI'm the boy next doorThe one you were warned aboutOh yes, indeedWell, I'm no upstanding citizenbut I'm standing up just the sameChorus:Number one bad boywho's to blameNumber...
- Let Me Go To The Show
Mama, please let me go to the showI dig those bad boys playing that rock and rollNo way, son, you can't go out tonightSo I got real upset, put up the biggest fightChorus:Mama, let me go to the showI dig those bad boys...
- Drum Solo
Rikki Rockett solo; no lyrics
- Only Time Will Tell
I just needed someone to holdWhen the bottle was emptyand the nights grew coldIn my hour of darknessIn my time of needYou were my angel of mercyAnd helped me to believeYou touched my soul When I was lonelyYou held me...
- No More Lookin' Back (Poison Jazz)
My friend called just the other dayPacked it up he won't be back this wayIt's not your heart but the spirit they breakThere's only so much a small town boy can takeSee the eyes of the countless massesDrinking life...
- Souls On Fire
It takes two to tangoIn the heat of the nightYou're gonna give it inNo matter how you fightHot nights, pretty womenand a bottle of ginFine floozy sitting prettyin the city of sinI'm knocking on your back doorbaby let...
- Guitar Solo
CC DeVille solo, no lyrics
- Intro
(To the music of Strange Days of Uncle Jack)Southern California, are you ready?From the gutters of Hollywood, CaliforniaWill you welcomeThe glamslamkings of noise....POISON!!!!
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