5 Meanings
Add Yours
Follow
Share
Q&A
The Beast Lyrics
Run from the beast
There’s danger in his eyes
He’s been looking for you
For a long time
You might think this is funny
But I’m not laughing
I know it couldn’t happen to me.
No one doubts the wisdom of this move
You’re getting older and you know you got something to prove
Out in the streets
The modern vampire prowls
He’s been spreading disease
All around
There’s an epidemic
If you don’t believe me
You ought to take a look at the eyes of your friends
When someone tempts you, you can’t refuse
It’s getting colder and you know you got nothing to lose
You need it
Know you got nothing to lose
You need it
Run from the beast
There’s darkness in his mind
He’s been looking for you
For a long time
You might think this is funny
But I’m not laughing
I know that it couldn’t happen to me
I don’t care about it happening to me
I’ve tried to show you your whole life in print
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink
Think about it
All you gotta do is think
About it
There’s no cure
There’s danger in his eyes
He’s been looking for you
For a long time
You might think this is funny
But I’m not laughing
I know it couldn’t happen to me.
You’re getting older and you know you got something to prove
The modern vampire prowls
He’s been spreading disease
All around
There’s an epidemic
If you don’t believe me
You ought to take a look at the eyes of your friends
It’s getting colder and you know you got nothing to lose
You need it
Know you got nothing to lose
You need it
There’s darkness in his mind
He’s been looking for you
For a long time
You might think this is funny
But I’m not laughing
I know that it couldn’t happen to me
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink
Think about it
All you gotta do is think
About it
Song Info
Submitted by
heartbeats_xxx On Oct 31, 2006
More The Only Ones
Another Girl, Another Planet
Someone Who Cares
No Solution
You've Got To Pay
Special View
Add your song meanings, interpretations, facts, memories & more to the community.
Guessing it's about heroin also?
@missedexit "Horse" is slang for heroin, so yes.
@missedexit "Horse" is slang for heroin, so yes.
peter said that this is the only song he's written about drugs.
Really?? I didnt know that thanxs cornersoul. Personally I would say about half are about his thoughts,feeling,lifstle and that would include the drugs but beast could be the only one(no pun0 about heroin specificaly.
Really?? I didnt know that thanxs cornersoul. Personally I would say about half are about his thoughts,feeling,lifstle and that would include the drugs but beast could be the only one(no pun0 about heroin specificaly.
What is the trash?
After "Another Girl"?
Guys, did you talk to Nancy Reagan? Drug users/dealers as vampires? A bit too much. Using drugs as a disease? You're as bad as Dr. Drew. Get off it. I hate it when people who've used drugs then go on to take a stance that not only are they not the best way to live, but that they should somehow be outlawed... I pray none of these guys think that's the cure for the "epidemic".
Just 12, Peter Perrett wasn't someone "who'd used" drugs. He disappeared into addiction for decades after this, which is the main reason there's so little Only Ones music out there. It was written in the midst of his drug use, and as far as I'm aware the rest of the band's also. So one must assume he knows whereof he speaks.
OOOOOooooooh yes indeed he didn`t leave his house for years,he had it boarded up cos he dealt heroin from it and was worried about being raided by drug squad!
OOOOOooooooh yes indeed he didn`t leave his house for years,he had it boarded up cos he dealt heroin from it and was worried about being raided by drug squad!
I recall when the song came out a reviewer saying it was a wry comment on STDs. Then, as with so much great lyrics, it is the very ambiguity that makes it so effective and powerful.