The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
Turn around you say
Excuse the 'tude but I haven't eaten today
And my eyes are turning grey
What's your name?
I can't remember
I can't remember
Bring me down you try
Feel the pain and keep it all in 'til you die
Without eyes you cannot cry
Who's to blame?
I can't remember
I can't remember
Remember identity, the visions in my mind from
Screaming at me
And mama, mama, ooh
My angry brains of infancy
Knocked down but I have enough hate to breathe
Down your throat and steal your energy
You took everything but my will to be
Now the loss of your god won't make me bleed
I am alive
Excuse the 'tude but I haven't eaten today
And my eyes are turning grey
What's your name?
I can't remember
I can't remember
Bring me down you try
Feel the pain and keep it all in 'til you die
Without eyes you cannot cry
Who's to blame?
I can't remember
I can't remember
Remember identity, the visions in my mind from
Screaming at me
And mama, mama, ooh
My angry brains of infancy
Knocked down but I have enough hate to breathe
Down your throat and steal your energy
You took everything but my will to be
Now the loss of your god won't make me bleed
I am alive
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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tom-van, i think we are agreeing a lot more than you realize... my original post states that i think its a God-bash, too. and clearly, from my activity on the site, i too think Staley and Cantrell were great songwriters.
despite that tirade against me, as I said I see nothing about drugs in these particular lyrics and in fact the only reason i mentioned drugs at all is because it annoys me the way some people start with the presupposition that the lyrics are NOT drug related simply because they don't want them to be. Personally i happen to see a lot of drug influence in many of AiC's lyrics, and I don't think that's a bad thing. that is my own interpretation and I don't feel like you have to agree. I completely see your point about my interpretation of Dirt for example, he never once says the word "heroin" but he also makes no mention of a girlfriend, father, or anyone else who could be the "you" he mentions in the song.
and weirdly enough, i agreed with shineglass that half of their drug references are good and the other bad... i guess people get defensive and can't see the similarities of opinion for the differences.
my only problem with your post was that you claimed that the members had not tried drugs until after facelift, which is something you can't possibly know. I must apologise to you, I think i was fishing for a fight a bit, i can't remember it was a while back. but i clearly got one, and i understand your point of view much better now; so it seems i got what i wanted.