Megadeth - Poison Was The Cure Lyrics
I miss the warm embrace I felt
First time you touched me
Secure and safe in open arms
I should have known you'd crush me
I loved you anyway
Pulling out your poisoned fangs
The venom never goes away
Serpent swims free in my blood
Dragons sleeping in my veins
Jackyl speaking with tongue
Roach egg-laying in my brain
Stalked beneath your shadow
I'm the sun that beats your brow in
Till I finally threw the towel in
Never knowing if I'd wake up in a
Whirlpool got redundant
My brain was just some driftwood
In a cesspool I became dead
From a rock star to a desk fool
Was my destiny someone said
Life's a tide pool
Taste the waters life's abundant
Taste me
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Megadeth Poison Was The Cure Comments
This song is pure gold, if you ask me...
A wise man on a YouTube comment section once said
“Megadeth riffs are just like other bands’ solos”
who says this is the worst song on the album? have they not heard dawn patrol? this is my all-time favorite megadeth song, just edging out tornado of souls and architecture of aggression
Almost got the whole solo down
We were all retarded back then.
this is a great mosh pit song
So the song's about heroin addiction but it quite literally works for chemotherapy too; Poison in your veins is the cure for cancer. At least it was for me.
The fact that this is considered by many to be the weakest (full) song on the album is demonstrative of how impeccable it really is
ITS NEVER LOUD ENOUGH!!!!!!!
There’s no such thing as a bad song on Rust in Peace
Are there any bands that even come close to writing this caliber of music? If so please enlighten me. I've been searching for years, and have yet to find a contender.
I have found only one! MEGADETH!!!! MEGADETH RULES FOR LIFE!!!🤘🤘🤘
Why have I just heard this now
WELCOME!!! MEGADETH RULES!!!!!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
I hear Kirk is still trying to learn to play this album in 2019...I say pack it in Kirk..no chance!
This song sounds like it could have been on killing is my business and business is good.
Dude the sickest 3min eva🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
That solo....
There are no weak tracks on Rust in Peace.
This is a masterpiece. Wow!!!!!!
This feels like if somebody were hitting me with a base ball bat and it is good
Frrrriends incoming
Can hold my nut until the end solo comes
Palm mute on bass , way to gooo !!!
Fuck this has to be in the top ten tunes off Rust in Peace! TASTE ME! 🇨🇦
The solo on Poison Was The Cure is the best one after Tornado Of Souls.
Lucretia?
Hangar 18
5 magics!
Now, jeová is the cure,holy shit,jajaja
NO FUCKING WEAK TRACKS...........ONLY WEAK EARS
The solo always makes me start spurting instantly.
+10 FAVV
Who tf said that this is the weakest song on the album? All songs are masterpieces and could have been the stand-out track on any other album.. Except Dawn Patrol.. And its not even a proper song..kinda like an intro to Polaris. So we wouldn't die from excess headbanging..
Well said buds!
waking up hungover and having a drink to get out the grave
0.75 speed sounds like NWOBHM
how the FUCK do you play guitar that fast
Sounds like it belongs on Kill Em All lol!
Hit the lights
Half wrote by Dave make sens
Metallica couldn't play this
Silver Hedgehog 👎
except this is much, much harder to play than anything of kill em all, both the solos and the riff, I mean the main riff is harder than some of the solos on KEA, believe me, I'm a guitar player and I love both bands.
This version sounds so much better than the remastered version. Holy shit slaughtered that remaster.
Why? Nostalgia is very strong in you, my friend, objectively the remasters has a way better production, the original one is flat and the drums are too quiet , in the remasters drums are constantly blasting at you, its great. Also the sound quality is enhanced and guitars are wider with fuller sound
This song is about drugs use, effects and what drugs can do to you to help you to get out of the real world and take you to an amazing, two ways, wonderful, euphoric, pleasant and lovely warm dream trip. Then the shit got you by the balls in a horrible nitemare, heart destroying, paranoid and full of madness come back second trip. This is how the poison enters in your system, like an angel but then it becomes a fuckin serpent dragon leaving his eggs of the addiction in your brain. All in a poetry way.
the ultimate speed metal song.
This is thrash metal
Dragonforce : hold my beer
@Leo Dubocs Are you stupid?
That solo just knocks your senses from pillar to post...
no remastered is the cure
Remastered is fine but it would've been better had it been in it's original mix.
Somebody needs to play this on a banjo. Of course, they also need to record it and upload it to youtube and put an appropriate title on the video and tag the video with the necessary keywords in order to achieve ranking for the types of keywords that people search when they want to listen to this song. They also need to make sure their computer is turned on before they try to upload the audio video, preferably at a time when they can be reasonably sure that their electric company and their internet service provider isn't going to turn their internet or electricity off, in the event they are late paying their electric bill or their internet bill, so as not to achieve a partial upload of their audio video if their internet or electricity does, in fact, get shut off during the upload. (If you've read this far you're either bored or you are curious what else I'm going to type, so you keep reading by looking at the words I've typed, with your eyes, which are connected to your storehouse of knowledge and comprehension known as your brain. Okay, that's enough. LOL!)
hahahahaahahahaha
Why in the fuck did i read this all the way till the end when only the first sentence actually matters?! xD p.s. you're an ass haha
I liked this even though I hate it so much
There's something charming about this comment 😂
hey hello my brother! 66666
This is one of the most complicated riffs i have ever heard in my life..
live according to the creed..
Holy shit! the speed...
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Diggadiggadiggadiggadiggadiggadiggadanh!Denh!Dunh!
Fucking how good is this tune!?!?
Wtf is this supposed to mean
put speed at 0.75 = metallica - four poisons
Борис Животное 😆
Metal miltia
Table was the cure
@Nour phantom lord
Nour ha that’s what I thought too.
This is the worst song on the album? No no no no, not even close. There's no such thing as a bad song on Rust In Peace.
I think Take No Prisoners is the weakest song in the album.
@SigmaTV no you don
This is honestly my #1 favorite from this album
This whole album has a vibe that no other other thrash band can touch including Megadeth themselves. This album is amazing start to finish
Your profile picture makes me want to slap you, maybe the effect of fuckin Reddit , But you're right .
🤘🏻🤘🏻
This song shreds. My fav album of all time
Mine two..I don’t think anyone in the big four even claim close to this masterpiece.
FASTER FASTER FASTER !!!!
God have mercy
Do fans really think this is the weakest track on Rust in Peace? I actually think its one of the better ones IMHO
Depends on your point of view..lyrically ,this song is the shit.as an aspiring guitarist, rust in peace is my favorite . heavy fuckn metal.nz
Best one besy riff on the album
@chadlystrife22 Take No Prisoners is the best one on RIP
ok, my bad, take no prisoners is apparently the shit as my fellow mega fans are letting me know...I never said it was a "weak" track just that imo its lesser than some of their others on rip, I like Lucretia and ToS and PWTC holy wars hangar 18 and rust in peace Polaris, they are just stronger tracks
Dawn Patrol is the weakest.
Amazing.. genius!!!
this song is the shit man.
Outro's too short
for those who dont know, this is about using IV drugs. lol
Yes we know
For all the illiterates out there
One of my favs!
Great song.
Like a symphony! One of the greatest composed!
I can sense some punk influences in this song as well as some "Fuck you, Metallica! I'm faster than you!" feelings.
BlackHat9029 this really isnt faster, its only KEM speed on the slower fast songs, battery, Damage inc, Disposable heros, dyers eve, trapped under ice, shortest straw, fight fire with fire and blackened are all way faster
Sounds like metal bluegrass to me.
fast and hard!!! poison the cure for life
think i just found my new favourite song
And so sad Nick Menza passed recently :(
@ThePuli Hi Megadeth buddy!
AW IT'S YOU
Try Lucretia
Meet Riffletics, my Megadeth-locked ultimate metalman.
Rust In Peace Nick :-(
Has a diamond head vibe
Check out Crown of Worms for an even heavier Diamond Head vibe in a Megadeth. It was actually written for Dave by Sean Harris.
@James Tablefield Yeah it's on the Countdown to extinction remaster as a bonus track
I always thought this song encompassed parts of addiction to heroin pretty well. The first minute (bass and drum & guitar crashes) is the constant, slow, grinding, unbearable anticipation of the next dose. The second minute (verse and break) is that moment of revelation and release when the needle goes in and the plunger goes down, knowing that the third minute (solo and HOLY SHIT) of release and euphoria of what was so desperately needed is hot on its heels.
Except, you know, addiction stages don't happen in neat, little, well-timed brackets. A day of anticipation, a heartbeat of release, and what feels like eternity of release in that moment, but is gone all too soon in the real world, leaving you right back at square one, looking for another shot of that delicious, hateful, wonderful, poisonous cure.
Brokenskull666 totally agree. This song is about drugs use, effects and what drugs can do to you to help you to get out of the real world and take you to an amazing, two ways, wonderful, euphoric, pleasant and lovely warm dream trip. Then the shit got you by the balls in a horrible nitemare, heart destroying, paranoid and full of madness come back second trip. This is how the poison enters in your system like an angel but then it becomes a fuckin serpent dragon leaving his eggs of the addiction in your brain. All in a poetry way.
I read that it was the poisen(Heorin) that cured Daves Problems
Well said
I thought it was a jab at metallic..
Maybe I'm wrong
The bass really adds to the sinister name of this song, "Poison was the cure."
You can't f*ck with this! Never gets old!
Thank you.
Dave should start doing heroin again. He was way nicer when he was addicted to smack.
dave was clean when they recorded this album soooo
He isn't saying he was a better musician, he was saying he was nicer, which honestly he was. Even Kerry King said "He was a lot cooler back then" Back then being like 1987 at the peak of Dave's addictions.
Cuntorious Maximus not everyones definition of "cooler" or "nicer" is the same. I would wager King was referring to Dave not practicing any of Christs doctrines at that time and not giving a crap what anyone around him was doing as far as influencing others. Dave had no self control and often assaulted others while an addict. He still struggles with verbal self control although he doesnt resort to physical violence as easily anymore. It is a struggle many deal with
Heroine makes u act like someone ur not, obv dave is a mean jerk and that shit was making him seem nice lol, i like mean dave better he says some funny shit sometimes
Neonym nope, Dave got sober in 91, before his mom's death (so he can tell her "I'm good now" but in 1990 he was still high as fuck just look at the 90 Take no prisoners performance
FAST AS FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This song's the true definition of Fast as Fuck!!
+xsol1dsn4kex there're way faster songs. But this one is melodic in addition to being fast. Which is awesome
Hell yea it is
+Oskaro Lillo Playing this live kills you and leaves you to shit
+xsol1dsn4kex Oh boy is it ever. Playing this on guitar really gets the fingers exhausted, hard AF to play too.
There's only one problem I got with this song... why is it so fucking short!!!!????
sorry for that, but dave plays the background riff, the principle riff is just marty
'cause it's fucking fast
dave and marty are still playing the same speed so
Sooooooooooooooooooo fucking fast! It's a masterpiece that gives that need for speed.
GREAT end section !
Riff reminds me of Metal Militia by Metallica, although this song kicks more ass!
@zzzhuh i leave it like 4 months ago wtf
Sounds just like metal militia
Thrashpowerpush off course Kill Em All it was all about pure Mustaine work. Including the stolen guitar solos of Kirk bitch Hammer...
Sounds like Megadeth to me
Best song on the album
poison was the cure!!!
This song is so incredible
Phenomenal bass
Amazing riffs
Great drumms
Awesome solo
This is Thrash \,,/
riffs harder than solo
That riff at 2:06....one of the beat off Rust In Peace.
What about the main riff?
to me that solo at 2:30 is one of the better solos on this album (behind tornado of souls obviously) but there is no shortage of great solos on this album.
fuck yeah this is music
This is music ?
Fuck ya!!! MEGADETH RULES
the only riff that dave cant do live properly while singing lol
Dat basss be bumpin'
DAT RIFF is like the most owning riff I've ever heard
im a fan of anything off of this album!