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.
Set against these hardest hours
Anger paled, for in this fear
the theft of privacy
We all see it break sometimes
see it tear us apart
that which left behind
screams out loud this night
So much is asked in silence
Except not and you´ll find
Thousand miles
from the nearest truth
Rotating, Entangled
- I continue not to heal
Another No-Night
waits its turn
So I call upon
My freecard
To postpone
If time was one with many faces
Which one would call to me?
Where all our paths in one now end
That with the power to gather the mislead
now will lead them all astray
So push it ever further
To unsuspecting dark
Build that second layer
For the hours to take fast
A rest from the giving
Like a heart between beats
Greater than the need
for community
The need for the right solitude
Come to know
that outrage is inevitable
Though many try,
an escape is unsuccessful
In the midst of a nerve-night
The victim of soulkill
True self is mere toture
Death rides these nerves
Another No-Night
waits its turn
So I call upon
My freecard
To postpone
Anger paled, for in this fear
the theft of privacy
We all see it break sometimes
see it tear us apart
that which left behind
screams out loud this night
So much is asked in silence
Except not and you´ll find
Thousand miles
from the nearest truth
Rotating, Entangled
- I continue not to heal
Another No-Night
waits its turn
So I call upon
My freecard
To postpone
If time was one with many faces
Which one would call to me?
Where all our paths in one now end
That with the power to gather the mislead
now will lead them all astray
So push it ever further
To unsuspecting dark
Build that second layer
For the hours to take fast
A rest from the giving
Like a heart between beats
Greater than the need
for community
The need for the right solitude
Come to know
that outrage is inevitable
Though many try,
an escape is unsuccessful
In the midst of a nerve-night
The victim of soulkill
True self is mere toture
Death rides these nerves
Another No-Night
waits its turn
So I call upon
My freecard
To postpone
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