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