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.
Thousands of hairs
Two eyes only
Its you
Some skin
Billions of genes
Again its you
XX XY
That's why it's you and me
Your blood is red
It's beautiful genetic love
Biological
I don't know why I feel that way with you
Biological
I need your DNA
Biological
I don't know why I feel that way with you
Biological
I need your DNA
Your fingerprints
The flesh, her arm, your bones
I'd like to know
Why all these things move me
Let's use ourselves to be as one tonight
Apart of me would like to travel in your veins
Biological
I don't know why I feel that way with you
Biological
I need your DNA
Biological
I don't know why I feel that way with you
Biological
I need your DNA
Two eyes only
Its you
Some skin
Billions of genes
Again its you
XX XY
That's why it's you and me
Your blood is red
It's beautiful genetic love
Biological
I don't know why I feel that way with you
Biological
I need your DNA
Biological
I don't know why I feel that way with you
Biological
I need your DNA
Your fingerprints
The flesh, her arm, your bones
I'd like to know
Why all these things move me
Let's use ourselves to be as one tonight
Apart of me would like to travel in your veins
Biological
I don't know why I feel that way with you
Biological
I need your DNA
Biological
I don't know why I feel that way with you
Biological
I need your DNA
Lyrics submitted by merchantpierce
Biological Lyrics as written by Godin Nicolas Barbier Jean Benoit Dunckel
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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these lyrics are amazing!
music + science = sexy
I'm not sure what to make of it. If you look at it one way, it could be about how the natural forces of attraction pull people together. But it could also mean that it's all just flesh, DNA, and atoms and in the end it doesn't mean anyhing.
couldn't agree more with the second comment
XX and XY are female and male chromosones, for your info.
I agree with the second comment, I for one wished that I wrote that song. So simple... brilliant... no one really takes a look at what we are made of and let alone make a song of it... makes me feel that we take a lot of granted.
maybe he loves this woman so much his love goes further than his mind, its biological, physical, he loves her so much he sees beuty in everything about her. her DNA, genes, bones. air never dissapoint.
I think this song is about how perfect love can make a person or how perfect a person is just by....being. On the other hand last time i heard it I also thought "we are just flesh covering our bones, why should we bother then about outr appearance so much?" Though: couldn't agree more with the second comment
I think this song is about how perfect his lover is in every way. It's also nihilist in a sense that we are all comprised of flesh and bones. We are nothing but we are everything.
Oh yes, I love this song so much, it's pure beauty. I think it's about how his love is so primal and it's just instinct for men and women to be attracted to eachother. Like how he says her blood is beautiful. She is living and breathing and just that is beautiful to him, like he's worshipping the human body, not just the outside but everything that makes it up, the bones and fingerprints.
/Let's use ourselves to be as one tonight Apart of me would like to travel in your veins/
That part is him sweet talking her into having sex. ;)
Saying he needs her DNA is kind of love saying he needs her soul, her esssence, her body and mind, everything that is her.
Lovely beautiful and very deep and meaningful.
Lyrics need much work, but the banjo is quite nice