Poison Heart

this song means about the having doubts on trusting the people around you.. or about the people that whom you expect to help you out if your down and out,all of a sudden turned they're backs on you...or in other words,they stabbed you in the back.. coz sometimes in life,if others see something special about you and they become jealous of it.. they'll do anything to bring you down.. thats what this song is about..

R.I.P. to the three amigo's joey,dee dee,and johnny.. you guys will be surely missed.. Ramones forever! \m/

This is undeniably one of the very best of the Ramones, this is really the kind of punk rock song that only a more experienced band could pull off. From lyrics right on down to musicianship and singing.

I love this song a lot. I think its a lot about Dee Dee's life. When he's a child, he's been counted out. Forgotten. He's a drum beat behind. Locked in a dream, never let you go, is about how your parents can hold you too close, so that some days you can't breath. You don't have any personal space. And you're the one who has to go through all of this. You can't smile. You can't laugh. Its not anyone else. Its just you.

When he meets the homeless person, its about being the outsider, and the experience of being an outsider. And when you try and talk or empathize, its like all you can get is a homeless man that just kind of smiles. And it does shake you up. Its like you're like the homeless man, and yet even he's so far gone that even you can't reach him. Maybe you're even looking at a worse version of what you could be.

But through it all, when life does take its toll, we poets and artists ultimately do what comes naturally, we song the song of our lives, or a song about our lives. Because there's nothing else you really can do. And in spite of the confusion or interference or whatever, there is the expression that we create as artists, and that's what gives us hope and life. And in spite of all of the bullshit, we still embrace life, and in spite of being one step behind, and everything else, we still survive.

Talks about society corrupting people, and as already posted, that you can't trust people. This one still survives. Still, has to deal with all the shit the world has.

There's a Dee Dee live performance where he introduces the song saying "this is dedicated to the fucking Ramones and my ex-wife". So yeah, that was probably the world where everyone had a poison heart. And he did walk right out of it, he left the band, got divorced, and entered rehab, all around the same time.

Joey sometimes changed the lyrics to "helpless Dee Dee gonna walk a drum beat behind" in concerts.

Mondo Bizarro is such a good album, definitely the best of the Ramones later phase. And then this song tops it off! Truly excellent.

Dee Dee at his best in lyric writing; even if you never been down the dangerous and sad road that Dee Dee been through you can feel it in this song.

Joey's vocals that sing as if the song was about him, singing this song with him makes me cry.

Johnny by then was a true master guitarrist and it shows

Marky on the drums, what can you say, he's Marky! No one marked tempo for this legendary punk band like him.

And then there is CJ as the new bassist that breathed young blood into the band without diluting its legacy.

I love this album and I really really love this song.

Dee Dee Ramone dead at 50. RIP, Dee Dee. This is one of my favorite songs written by him. Hope you're in heaven now, along with Joey, teaching those angels how to rock.

Yet another autobiographical song of Dee Dee's. Hell, he even named his autobiography book "Poison Heart". Awesome, awesome song.

Love, love, love this song. Could listen to it over and over again. Totally rocks.

I'm crying just reading the lyrics. The Ramones knew.

Favorite Ramones song for sure.