Poison Was The Cure – English Lyrics

• By: Megadeth
• Album: Rust In Peace

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the vocabulary of raw honesty and metaphorical storytelling with Megadeth's "Poison Was The Cure." You'll learn the expressive language of addiction and regret, driven by blistering thrash metal terminology. The song is special for its technical riffing and for being a brutally direct confession from Dave Mustaine, contrasting high-speed music with deeply personal, dark subject matter.

[English]

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

...

A snake you were when we met, I loved you anyway

Pulling out your poisonous fangs, the venom never goes away

...

Serpent swims free in my blood, dragons sleeping in my veins

Jackyl speaking with my tongue, roach egg laying in my brain

Once stalked beneath your shadow

Sleepwalking to the gallows

I'm the sun that beats your brow in

'Til 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 rockstar to a desk fool was my destiny, someone said

Love's a tide pool, taste the water, life's abundant

...

Taste me!

...

Key Grammar Structures

• I miss the warm embrace I felt first time you touched me

  ➔ Past Perfect (had + past participle)

  ➔ The phrase "I felt first time" uses the past perfect to indicate an action completed before another past action (you touched me).

• Secure and safe in open arms, I should have known you'd crush me

  ➔ Modal Verb (should have + past participle)

  ➔ "I should have known" expresses regret or realization about a past situation using the modal verb construction.

• A snake you were when we met, I loved you anyway

  ➔ Inversion (A snake you were)

  ➔ The inversion "A snake you were" emphasizes the subject for poetic effect, common in literature and lyrics.

• Serpent swims free in my blood, dragons sleeping in my veins

  ➔ Present Simple in Imaginative Context

  ➔ The present simple "swims" and "sleeping" are used metaphorically to describe vivid, ongoing imagery.

• Once stalked beneath your shadow

  ➔ Past Simple in Past Perfect Context

  ➔ The past simple "stalked" is used to describe a specific past action within a larger past context.

• From a rockstar to a desk fool was my destiny, someone said

  ➔ Subject-Verb Inversion (was my destiny)

  ➔ The inversion "was my destiny" places the subject after the verb for emphasis and poetic effect.

• Love's a tide pool, taste the water, life's abundant

  ➔ Apostrophe (Love's)

  ➔ "Love's" is a contraction of "love is," using an apostrophe to show possession or omission of letters.