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.
Let the games begin if you want to f*** with me
You can't disturb the course of P & see & T & D & me
I'm on a mission
To set straight
The vice, the curse, the date, the gate relate
To this, I insist be it's weak to dis see I'm runna up so suckers stick to your 40
How could I give a d***, give a d*** if you approve what it's about
I just freak out
Just guess ya'll see'mon come back slipped
Outta whack as the master
Laid out the music
Death I just say f*** you, the void unknown we're thrown
through while lost in life's psychedelic trip we take
There's another more bizarre we have to make
world we have nowhere beyond
Take out the earth the back is gone
At life's end we'll feel the calm
How strange we should be here at all
[Chorus]
If you don't have someone to do it with it's not worth doin'
To all my friends, it's not the end the earth has not swallowed me yet
Into whose womb were you woven what kin of your skin dropped you then
Bodies cloven
Light of daybreak blinded next exit
The wild darkness forming inside it
My day wasn't promised me each death it brings reminding me we
Are rumbling through this cursed universe where death is birth
Think not but what your manifest is worth
Giving up a verse the curse occurs a thirst
To burst first breaking through the center of the universe
Slamming down on the lingo flow so jam to the bum-rush single
Long ago has been become now when you find out there's no break
In the rhythm
Black anima makes my stamina stand alone disown the cinema
farewell to posing decades dozing comin' up the steps of the new
Screen rising scenes from the lost world shapes hard to tell
Which is which as if drawn by a child holmes
[Chorus]
This is the heat to flush your face
You can't disturb the course of P & see & T & D & me
I'm on a mission
To set straight
The vice, the curse, the date, the gate relate
To this, I insist be it's weak to dis see I'm runna up so suckers stick to your 40
How could I give a d***, give a d*** if you approve what it's about
I just freak out
Just guess ya'll see'mon come back slipped
Outta whack as the master
Laid out the music
Death I just say f*** you, the void unknown we're thrown
through while lost in life's psychedelic trip we take
There's another more bizarre we have to make
world we have nowhere beyond
Take out the earth the back is gone
At life's end we'll feel the calm
How strange we should be here at all
[Chorus]
If you don't have someone to do it with it's not worth doin'
To all my friends, it's not the end the earth has not swallowed me yet
Into whose womb were you woven what kin of your skin dropped you then
Bodies cloven
Light of daybreak blinded next exit
The wild darkness forming inside it
My day wasn't promised me each death it brings reminding me we
Are rumbling through this cursed universe where death is birth
Think not but what your manifest is worth
Giving up a verse the curse occurs a thirst
To burst first breaking through the center of the universe
Slamming down on the lingo flow so jam to the bum-rush single
Long ago has been become now when you find out there's no break
In the rhythm
Black anima makes my stamina stand alone disown the cinema
farewell to posing decades dozing comin' up the steps of the new
Screen rising scenes from the lost world shapes hard to tell
Which is which as if drawn by a child holmes
[Chorus]
This is the heat to flush your face
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