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.
Someday stays in my own way
With magic so tragic and still lacking in taste
And I know the tables set right
You look beautiful, you've set me up twice
And so your style is outdated
In search of the perfect and embarrassingly fatal
Ungodly gorgeous
Buried in a chorus so I'll be forever be brutal
And slender like a saint
Riding upright and riding late
Straight through somewhere everything's
Unused, unlike you
This is why I still sleep in the air
My armor plated car
That crashed straight into your thighs
You threw up my best skin
Cause you never loved it (I never loved it)
You threw up my best skin
Cause you never loved it (I never loved it)
And someday stays locked in my safe
While plastic arms carry you away
And I know this never happened,
We never happened, you never...
Why do you float way up there?
In disguise in dirty air
Why don't you melt way down here
With heaven so far and hell so near
This is why I still sleep in the air
My armor plated car
That crashed straight into your thighs
You threw up my best skin
Cause you never loved it (I never loved it)
You threw up my best skin
Cause you never loved it (I never loved it)
You threw up my best skin
Cause you never loved it...
You threw up my best skin
Cause you never loved it...
I guess it's that bad
I guess it's that bad
I guess it's that bad
I guess it's that bad
And I will never understand
Love of the roses that grow for you
But I know they keep on dying,
They always keep on dying
"I don't care about you now you're not alive"
With magic so tragic and still lacking in taste
And I know the tables set right
You look beautiful, you've set me up twice
And so your style is outdated
In search of the perfect and embarrassingly fatal
Ungodly gorgeous
Buried in a chorus so I'll be forever be brutal
And slender like a saint
Riding upright and riding late
Straight through somewhere everything's
Unused, unlike you
This is why I still sleep in the air
My armor plated car
That crashed straight into your thighs
You threw up my best skin
Cause you never loved it (I never loved it)
You threw up my best skin
Cause you never loved it (I never loved it)
And someday stays locked in my safe
While plastic arms carry you away
And I know this never happened,
We never happened, you never...
Why do you float way up there?
In disguise in dirty air
Why don't you melt way down here
With heaven so far and hell so near
This is why I still sleep in the air
My armor plated car
That crashed straight into your thighs
You threw up my best skin
Cause you never loved it (I never loved it)
You threw up my best skin
Cause you never loved it (I never loved it)
You threw up my best skin
Cause you never loved it...
You threw up my best skin
Cause you never loved it...
I guess it's that bad
I guess it's that bad
I guess it's that bad
I guess it's that bad
And I will never understand
Love of the roses that grow for you
But I know they keep on dying,
They always keep on dying
"I don't care about you now you're not alive"
Lyrics submitted by rjbucs28
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im right there with you,foolingdestiny..