If Your Poison Gets You Lyrics

Lyric discussion by brown sugar please 

Cover art for If Your Poison Gets You lyrics by Frank Black

I could be wrong, but I think this song is about a guy who's friend or girlfriend uses drugs/alcohol. He's saying that if she overdoses ("if your poison gets you") he's praying angels will look out for her and he's saying he'll get there for her as soon as he can.

"Now once again to halls of pain When will it end? God's machines say it's your genes When will it end? Why has thou forsaken me, again and again? You always said "When will it end?" When will it end?" ^^I think this is sort of about the endless cycle of people using drugs and all the pain it puts everyone through