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.
I saw you burning in a scarlet light
Just like a pantheon of comets in flight
Time, a place, a face no matter now
Now listen to an idiot chatter
Whoaoaoaoao
Truth be told you're at least half gold
I love you like a dog loves to run and ramble
Make the brook babble let the bell ring
Don't let the action of factual things fracture your casual swing
You are the sun and that's law
I got a mouth like a donkey chewing on straw
Calling all stones, calling all streams, one piece many parts undivided in a dream
Move it out now, step into the heat
This will be the era where the people truth seek
Small pebble, some small stone
No place to call your own
Walk out to the dock
Just to watch a wave roll
Soul rebel, a passion unknown
Don't let your dreams go cold
You've got to swing from the shoulder
Swing from the shoulder of your soul
This is what I'm talking about...
Every processed thing's got an expiration date
so process everything and you had better speculate.
This is for the ghouls, kick the doors off the tomb
We are young forever that is written on the moon.
Whooooaoaoaoa that's how it flows.
It's a rough diamond, supreme romance
No circumstance will ever stop this dance.
Move it out now, step into the heat
This will be the era where the people truth seek
Chorus
Rise from the corners, rise from the folds
Move in the places that are brittle from the cold
Sleepless searchers turning in the eves
Burdened with the vision of a world retrieved
Peace manifest unity unity
Born of positive c-h-a-n-g-e
Speak, I'm weak I need your power and your heat
Looking for substance in a world of techniques
Chorus
Just like a pantheon of comets in flight
Time, a place, a face no matter now
Now listen to an idiot chatter
Whoaoaoaoao
Truth be told you're at least half gold
I love you like a dog loves to run and ramble
Make the brook babble let the bell ring
Don't let the action of factual things fracture your casual swing
You are the sun and that's law
I got a mouth like a donkey chewing on straw
Calling all stones, calling all streams, one piece many parts undivided in a dream
Move it out now, step into the heat
This will be the era where the people truth seek
Small pebble, some small stone
No place to call your own
Walk out to the dock
Just to watch a wave roll
Soul rebel, a passion unknown
Don't let your dreams go cold
You've got to swing from the shoulder
Swing from the shoulder of your soul
This is what I'm talking about...
Every processed thing's got an expiration date
so process everything and you had better speculate.
This is for the ghouls, kick the doors off the tomb
We are young forever that is written on the moon.
Whooooaoaoaoa that's how it flows.
It's a rough diamond, supreme romance
No circumstance will ever stop this dance.
Move it out now, step into the heat
This will be the era where the people truth seek
Chorus
Rise from the corners, rise from the folds
Move in the places that are brittle from the cold
Sleepless searchers turning in the eves
Burdened with the vision of a world retrieved
Peace manifest unity unity
Born of positive c-h-a-n-g-e
Speak, I'm weak I need your power and your heat
Looking for substance in a world of techniques
Chorus
Lyrics submitted by Big_Olmec
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