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Screaming Trees – Subtle Poison (1989) | Track profile | Dork

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Screaming Trees
Buzz Factory
Subtle Poison

TRACK

Screaming Trees

Subtle Poison

Release date: 22nd October 1989

From Buzz Factory

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About This Track

"Subtle Poison" is a track by Screaming Trees, from the album Buzz Factory, released 22nd October 1989. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Screaming Trees

Screaming Trees

Lyrics

Subtle Poison

Alright

Yeah, yeah

Your subtle poison slips through my veins

The dark cloud inside of me

It hovers slow till you finally know

I'm waiting just to set it free

Well, the walls are closing in right on you

What are you gonna do now

The walls are closing in right on you

What did you think I would do now, hey

Well, come on

What I want it still evades me

A black fog behind me

A figure looming over my shoulder

Pushing me so very near

Now, the walls are closing in right on you

What are you gonna do now

The walls are closing in right on you

What did you think I would do now

Hey, they're closing in right on you

Yeah

Alright, yeah

Your subtle poison slips through my veins

A dark cloud inside of me

It hovers slow till you finally know

I'm waiting just to set it free

Well, the walls are closing in right on you

What are you gonna do now

The walls are closing in right on you

What did you think I would do now

The walls are closing in right on you

What did you think I would do now

The walls are closing in right on you

What are you gonna do now

Yeah

They're closing in right on you

They're closing in right on you

Closing in right on you

In right on you

Closing in right on you

Closing in right on you

Closing in right on you

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Track details

From Buzz Factory

1989

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Album

Screaming Trees

Release year

1989

—Too Far Away
—Yard Trip 7
—Flower Web
—End of the Universe
—Revelation Revolution
—The Looking Glass Cracked
—Wish Bringer
—Windows
—Where the Twain Shall Meet
—Subtle Poison
—Black Sun Morning

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Screaming Trees — Subtle Poison

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Subtle Poison

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Gary Lee Conner, Mark Lanegan, Mark Pickerel, Van Conner
Producer: Jack Endino, Screaming Trees
Bass: Van Conner
Drums: Mark Pickerel
Guitar: Gary Lee Conner
Vocals: Mark Lanegan