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.
This could be destiny
Oh sweetheart
I've had no sense of time
Since we started
I got friends in need
Oh sweetheart
I'd go lengths and lengths and lengths of love
Since we started this thing now
Complex salacious removal
Complex salacious removal
There is a bitter breed
Oh sweetheart
They will be watching you sometimes
With their bitter hearts
But we went through with these
Oh we're shifting the heartache
We want strong summer love that must roam washed up blood
Just to stay away
Complex salacious removal
Complex salacious removal
Complex salacious removal
Oh sweetheart
I've had no sense of time
Since we started
I got friends in need
Oh sweetheart
I'd go lengths and lengths and lengths of love
Since we started this thing now
Complex salacious removal
Complex salacious removal
There is a bitter breed
Oh sweetheart
They will be watching you sometimes
With their bitter hearts
But we went through with these
Oh we're shifting the heartache
We want strong summer love that must roam washed up blood
Just to stay away
Complex salacious removal
Complex salacious removal
Complex salacious removal
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Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
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Well, to me, the song is about falling for someone, whether it's infatuation, a crush or some kind of actual love. What happens is this- You want to be with the person. You get cheery and everytyhing is new. Consequently, you're spending less time with your friends, maybe you never find time for them while you're buzzing over this amazing person you've fallen for.
You think "maybe I should spend more time with my old friends soon", but you keep putting it off and after a while, hence the line "I've had no sense of time since we started this thing out"
Your friends will begin to see your relationship as someting that's got you locked away from the actual world. And you know that people will be saying this about you, and therefore you tell your special one that "There is a bitter breed, oh sweetheart They will be watching you sometimes With their bitter hearts"... And in the same breath you say "But we are through with these"...
You think that you're doing a romantic thing by giving up everything for this one person. If circumstances were different, you might have been right, but the situation doesn't require you to give anything up to be with this person- you just choose to cut everything else out of your everyday life.
And you still don't see that it's all because you're seeing the whole shebang through pink love-goggles and if you'd just take them off for a while and be rational, you'd see that you're basically getting too involved in something that's still new, fresh and passionate. The passion doesn't have to die just because you decide to hang out with your old friends every now and then, but you don't see this and you think "this is the lengths I'll have to go to in the name of love".
I think the line "We want strong summer love, the most robust of blood // Just to stay awake" simply means that this new thing is exciting as hell, and you think it has swept you into a dream world, but in fact it's just because it makes your life less boring (the "just to stay awake"-line hints at this, methinks)
And to me, "salacious removal" could easily mean "getting removed from your previous life because you're feeling frisky/horny/whatever". ANd this is what you should combat.
In short: If you have a crush on someone, don't lose your brain into the big cauldron of infatuated passion, and try to stay in touch with what your life is about and waht gave you meaning before.
the lyrics are wrong, it's COMBAT SALACIOUS REMOVAL
I wonder why he always makes up his songs? I mean, that's a silly thing to say. I mean, why he feels he gets a better song by not writing what he knows?
Maybe this song has the answer. The public contain the vicious breed that prey on celebrity spouses.
I like that he claims he feels timeless, and can only observe the length of their relationship as if it's an actual physical length, like a creeper. Reminds me of the opening lines of Take you on a cruise - "i'm timeless like a broken watch".
i think he's also talking about his penis. seriously
@playgroundlove That was my first thought as well.
This is one of that "personal" songs that really come out directly of your heart and you don't want to tell everyone what inspired you to write it cause it totally screws it for you.
Pikka Bird: your essay is pretty good, pretty long too =p I have to admit that, but like most love songs it can mean something totally different to someone else so no one will know what paul was thinking of when he wrote it but he gave us an amazing song to enjoy =)
This song, for me, is pretty clear? Its about dating someone you tecnically shouldn't, such as an exs best friend or your friends ex etc. ("I've got friends in need, sweetheart ")
"since we started this thing out" makes it sound like such a big leap. A big decision and a big moment.
In normal circumstances he could start dating this girl and see what happens, they could gradually fall in love etc. but with making such a big leap as to go public with someone he shouldnt be with according to others he has to convince her that, "This could be destiny" and that its worth all the grief they'll get off others.
Hes trying to say that ofcourse those with "Bitter hearts" will always say crap "They will be watching you sometimes With their bitter hearts". But he wants uncomplicated "summer love"
its about his dick lol
paul banks said he would never reveal the meaning of this song i have no idea what it means, maybe there is no measure of how much love you can give
Hum... This song is beautiful and it's Vale's new favorite song ! It's very very cool and sentimental to me...
It's also my favorite song off Antics. It seems it's not one of the most popular ones though. I think the lyrics aren't too obscure: it's about how far someone can go for love. He went too far and he has to get bnacl to "his friends in need". The "complex salacious removal" is him saying no to sex. The second verse about about wanting "strong summer love", something that he sees in teenagers maybe?