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.
You and your misfit friends leaving dirty fucking messages
You’re always right, you’re always right, you’re always right, you’re always right
Fuck
You say you love me
That’s what your saying
I think you’re crazy
And the nuts are far behind you
I try to tell myself everything will be alright
I try to wake you up from acting out your stupid dreams
But don’t look devastated now
There’s more to come from this
Can you hear me?
Am I cutting out?
Now it’s time to say goodbye
One of us needs to leave this place
Again you’re falling right back down, right back down
So many reasons why one of us needs to leave this place
Again you’re falling right back down
Right back down
No I can’t change what you say
Tired of the games you play
You’re dirty words play tricks on me
And you should feel so ashamed of the way
Feel so ashamed of decisions that you made
There’s no control over this
So why do you try
Still find myself esteem in all your dreams
To get yourself attention
There’s got to be a better way to relay your twisted messages
Hate to be the dick to let you know
This is how we let things go
No one needs this shit
Never should have stayed around this long
But I love the pain I feel, like you do
All day long, I want to know why
‘Cause it makes no sense to me
No I can’t change what you say
Tired of the games you play
You’re dirty words play tricks on me
And you should feel so ashamed of the way
Feel so ashamed of decisions that you made
Right
You ask me what is wrong
And I’ll tell you why
‘Cause I never like the way you treated anyone
Especially your own kind
It’s so strange sometimes
I wanna, I wanna know why
Why, why, why
I think there’s something that I know
No I can’t change what you say
Tired of the games you play
You’re dirty words play tricks on me
And you should feel so ashamed of the way
Feel so ashamed of decisions that you made
The stupid things you say
And the fucked up games we play
And you should feel so ashamed of the way
The way, the way
Right
Right
Right
Right
You’re always right, you’re always right, you’re always right, you’re always right
Fuck
You say you love me
That’s what your saying
I think you’re crazy
And the nuts are far behind you
I try to tell myself everything will be alright
I try to wake you up from acting out your stupid dreams
But don’t look devastated now
There’s more to come from this
Can you hear me?
Am I cutting out?
Now it’s time to say goodbye
One of us needs to leave this place
Again you’re falling right back down, right back down
So many reasons why one of us needs to leave this place
Again you’re falling right back down
Right back down
No I can’t change what you say
Tired of the games you play
You’re dirty words play tricks on me
And you should feel so ashamed of the way
Feel so ashamed of decisions that you made
There’s no control over this
So why do you try
Still find myself esteem in all your dreams
To get yourself attention
There’s got to be a better way to relay your twisted messages
Hate to be the dick to let you know
This is how we let things go
No one needs this shit
Never should have stayed around this long
But I love the pain I feel, like you do
All day long, I want to know why
‘Cause it makes no sense to me
No I can’t change what you say
Tired of the games you play
You’re dirty words play tricks on me
And you should feel so ashamed of the way
Feel so ashamed of decisions that you made
Right
You ask me what is wrong
And I’ll tell you why
‘Cause I never like the way you treated anyone
Especially your own kind
It’s so strange sometimes
I wanna, I wanna know why
Why, why, why
I think there’s something that I know
No I can’t change what you say
Tired of the games you play
You’re dirty words play tricks on me
And you should feel so ashamed of the way
Feel so ashamed of decisions that you made
The stupid things you say
And the fucked up games we play
And you should feel so ashamed of the way
The way, the way
Right
Right
Right
Right
Lyrics submitted by gizmo12688
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correction::
You say you love me That’s what your say I think you’re crazy And I'm not so far behind you
:( as much as I'd like it to be "And I'm not so far behind you," it is "And the nuts are far behind you."
I fetched the CD booklet, because I wanted to prove Xialo wrong :D