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Arrow poisons are used to poison arrow heads or darts for the purposes of hunting and warfare. They have been used by indigenous peoples worldwide and are still in use in areas of South America, Africa and Asia. Notable examples are the poisons secreted from the skin of the poison dart frog, and curare (or 'ampi'), a general term for a range of plant-derived arrow poisons used by the indigenous peoples of South America.
Poisoned arrows have featured in mythology, notably the Greek story of Heracles slaying the centaur Nessus using arrows poisoned with the blood of the Lernaean Hydra. The Greek hero Odysseus poisons his arrows with hellebore in Homer's Odyssey. Poisoned arrows also figure in Homer's epic about the Trojan War, the Iliad, in which both Achaeans and Trojans used toxic arrows and spears.Baldr's death in the Norse myths features poison arrows. The modern terms "toxic" and "toxin" derive from the ancient Greek word for "bow", toxon, from Old Persian *taxa-, "an arrow".
Poison Arrow
Miles from home,
'Round here they'll never miss me.
Everybody disappears one by one,
And no one hears a thing.
The razor wire makes me uneasy,
It catches the moon,
Shes smiling to see me.
Fear could never keep me here,
But fate could always keep me here.
Don't look now,
Another poison arrow pointed at you.
Don't look now,
Another poison arrow pointed at you.
Lost and never found,
It's a long way down,
We are the paper targets,
Dear departed,
Got you where they want you now.
Lost and never found,
It's a long way down,
We are the paper targets,
Dear departed,
Got you where they want you now.
Miles from home,
No one will ever miss you.
Paranoid are friends are frisked,
We sleep in shifts,
And no one dares to dream.
Black birds fly over our heads,
But we're so alive,
Just being misread.
Fear could never keep me here,
But fate could always keep me here.
Don't look now,
Another poison arrow pointed at you.
Don't look now,
Another poison arrow pointed at you.
Lost and never found,
It's a long way down,
We are the paper targets,
Dear departed,
Got you where they want you now.
Lost and never found,
It's a long way down,
We are the paper targets,
Dear departed,
Got you where they want you now.
They got you under lock and key,
And it's killing me.
(It's killing me)
They got you under lock and key,
And it's killing me.
(It's killing me)
They got you under lock and key,
And it's killing me.
(It's killing me)
They got you under lock and key,
And it's killing me.
Lost and never found,
It's a long way down,
We are the paper targets,
Dear departed,
Got you where they want you now.
Lost and never found,
It's a long way down,
We are the paper targets,
Dear departed,
Got you where they want you now.
Lost and never found,
It's a long way down,
We are the paper targets,
Dear departed,
Got you where they want you now.
Lost and never found,
It's a long way down,
We are the paper targets,
Dear departed,