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.
Take care of yourself
Don't ever relax
Stop turning away
Don't ever look back
And burn all those bridges everyone has
Until you finally learn the way to
Take care of yourself
Don't ever relax
Stop turning away
Don't ever look back
And burn all those bridges everyone has
Until you finally learn the way to
We're here for a long time
I'll be fifty, reading, learning
Still trying to beat this evil version
Of my people person
I scratched like all my DJs did
To breach the surface
But I'm trying to last
And have a laugh
When we meet in person
So take care
You've got one body
I feel godly
Hobby Lobby
Independent mom and poppy
Walking wobbly
Damnit Bobby
I worked in the movie theater mopping it
You don't know what you got
Until you squander it
Hey
Clap your hands
Welcome our contestant
He submitted hard confessions
To our market testing
And though his bars impressive
They've been narcoleptic
He's trying to fund a house of cards
That he architected
The world's a cannibal corpse
A different animal
Aiming for solutions while I rifle through the manual
You better help yourself cuz no one's going to
I will make it out what I've been going through
Spizz
Take care of yourself
Don't ever relax
Stop turning away
Don't ever look back
And burn all those bridges everyone has
Until you finally learn the way to
Take care of yourself
Don't ever relax
Stop turning away
Don't ever look back
And burn all those bridges everyone has
Until you finally learn the way to
Uh
No first aid kit needed
Put on my mic I just bleed
I think I'm sick of this climate
It rained on all my dreams
But I saw a ghost
Through moth bite clothes
He haunts me when I sleep
Two fingers to the western sky
I'm waving them like, peace
Don't be placing me in no niche
Don't go toast to me in no bar
If I don't die young then so be it
I'm still a poet at heart
Do not go gentle into that good night
Dylan you came too far
And don't ever lose sight of who you are, are
I'm thankful for my English teacher
Taught me how to breathe
God, thanks for depression
Cuz it taught me to be deep
I learned from all the nights when I would
Try to get to sleep
On someone's hand-me-down family couch
You better believe
I went from broke and broke to broken
To whole and hopeful
To how's he from a sleepy town
With eyes both wide
So soulful
I know
The lonely road up will go
To no ovals
Go see his show, fo sho
I suppose
The most quotable, huh
That's just the shit that's inside me
Isn't it ironic
The more I set up
The more the myth will define me
If being lonely is a drug
I guess I live with sobriety
And I live with it kindly
Take care
Take care of yourself
Don't ever relax
Stop turning away
Don't ever look back
And burn all those bridges everyone has
Until you finally learn the way to
Take care of yourself
Don't ever relax
Stop turning away
Don't ever look back
And burn all those bridges everyone has
Until you finally learn the way to
Take care of yourself
Don't ever relax
Stop turning away
Don't ever look back
And burn all those bridges everyone has
Until you finally learn the way to
Shoutout to all my friends
Shoutout to everybody who helped me with this tape right here
Everybody who helped me obsess over the name
For like five years
And make the album art in my room
With a piece of paper and a pair of scissors
Shoutout to naebird on the beat
Shoutout to my dusty ass room
Yo
I'll see you guys next time
Don't ever relax
Stop turning away
Don't ever look back
And burn all those bridges everyone has
Until you finally learn the way to
Take care of yourself
Don't ever relax
Stop turning away
Don't ever look back
And burn all those bridges everyone has
Until you finally learn the way to
We're here for a long time
I'll be fifty, reading, learning
Still trying to beat this evil version
Of my people person
I scratched like all my DJs did
To breach the surface
But I'm trying to last
And have a laugh
When we meet in person
So take care
You've got one body
I feel godly
Hobby Lobby
Independent mom and poppy
Walking wobbly
Damnit Bobby
I worked in the movie theater mopping it
You don't know what you got
Until you squander it
Hey
Clap your hands
Welcome our contestant
He submitted hard confessions
To our market testing
And though his bars impressive
They've been narcoleptic
He's trying to fund a house of cards
That he architected
The world's a cannibal corpse
A different animal
Aiming for solutions while I rifle through the manual
You better help yourself cuz no one's going to
I will make it out what I've been going through
Spizz
Take care of yourself
Don't ever relax
Stop turning away
Don't ever look back
And burn all those bridges everyone has
Until you finally learn the way to
Take care of yourself
Don't ever relax
Stop turning away
Don't ever look back
And burn all those bridges everyone has
Until you finally learn the way to
Uh
No first aid kit needed
Put on my mic I just bleed
I think I'm sick of this climate
It rained on all my dreams
But I saw a ghost
Through moth bite clothes
He haunts me when I sleep
Two fingers to the western sky
I'm waving them like, peace
Don't be placing me in no niche
Don't go toast to me in no bar
If I don't die young then so be it
I'm still a poet at heart
Do not go gentle into that good night
Dylan you came too far
And don't ever lose sight of who you are, are
I'm thankful for my English teacher
Taught me how to breathe
God, thanks for depression
Cuz it taught me to be deep
I learned from all the nights when I would
Try to get to sleep
On someone's hand-me-down family couch
You better believe
I went from broke and broke to broken
To whole and hopeful
To how's he from a sleepy town
With eyes both wide
So soulful
I know
The lonely road up will go
To no ovals
Go see his show, fo sho
I suppose
The most quotable, huh
That's just the shit that's inside me
Isn't it ironic
The more I set up
The more the myth will define me
If being lonely is a drug
I guess I live with sobriety
And I live with it kindly
Take care
Take care of yourself
Don't ever relax
Stop turning away
Don't ever look back
And burn all those bridges everyone has
Until you finally learn the way to
Take care of yourself
Don't ever relax
Stop turning away
Don't ever look back
And burn all those bridges everyone has
Until you finally learn the way to
Take care of yourself
Don't ever relax
Stop turning away
Don't ever look back
And burn all those bridges everyone has
Until you finally learn the way to
Shoutout to all my friends
Shoutout to everybody who helped me with this tape right here
Everybody who helped me obsess over the name
For like five years
And make the album art in my room
With a piece of paper and a pair of scissors
Shoutout to naebird on the beat
Shoutout to my dusty ass room
Yo
I'll see you guys next time
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