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.
And I knew that you just couldn't wait
To put your sharpened dagger in
And watch the look on my face
It was all you were searching for
A picture frame consistent
To being alone
Now we're content with illusions
And our arm length smiles
Did you get what you wanted
Did you get what you wanted now
This is all that I'm asking
Cause its the love we're forgetting now
Did you take what you wanted
Did you get what you wanted from me
This is all that I'm asking
This is all that I'm asking you
Oh the years that have all been erased
No superficial shelter could ever replace
And its all you we're searching for
Another adequate replacement
To walk through your door
We're content with illusions
And our downhill eyes
Did you get what you wanted
Did you get what you wanted now
This is all that I'm asking
Cause its the love I'm forgetting now
Did you get what you wanted
Did you take what you wanted from me
This is all that I'm asking
Yeah this is all that I'm asking
Have you ever felt what it means to be truly alone?
Stop and think right now
Have you ever been alone?
Have you ever felt so cold?
Have you ever felt to truly alone?
So freezing cold?
So find the fakest elation I hope it takes you away
Now I've got it all worked out now
Just a memory, picture framed illusion
Did you get what you wanted
Did you get what you wanted now
This is all that I'm asking
Cause its the love I'm forgetting now
Did you get what you wanted
Did you take what you needed from me
This is all that I'm asking
This is all that I'm asking
Did you get what you wanted?
Now!!!
To put your sharpened dagger in
And watch the look on my face
It was all you were searching for
A picture frame consistent
To being alone
Now we're content with illusions
And our arm length smiles
Did you get what you wanted
Did you get what you wanted now
This is all that I'm asking
Cause its the love we're forgetting now
Did you take what you wanted
Did you get what you wanted from me
This is all that I'm asking
This is all that I'm asking you
Oh the years that have all been erased
No superficial shelter could ever replace
And its all you we're searching for
Another adequate replacement
To walk through your door
We're content with illusions
And our downhill eyes
Did you get what you wanted
Did you get what you wanted now
This is all that I'm asking
Cause its the love I'm forgetting now
Did you get what you wanted
Did you take what you wanted from me
This is all that I'm asking
Yeah this is all that I'm asking
Have you ever felt what it means to be truly alone?
Stop and think right now
Have you ever been alone?
Have you ever felt so cold?
Have you ever felt to truly alone?
So freezing cold?
So find the fakest elation I hope it takes you away
Now I've got it all worked out now
Just a memory, picture framed illusion
Did you get what you wanted
Did you get what you wanted now
This is all that I'm asking
Cause its the love I'm forgetting now
Did you get what you wanted
Did you take what you needed from me
This is all that I'm asking
This is all that I'm asking
Did you get what you wanted?
Now!!!
Lyrics submitted by skacore_dude
Decrescendo Lyrics as written by Matthew Dean Embree Christopher Tyler Tsagakis
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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I have only heard The Resignation album, and this is by far my most favorite song on it, along with Prohpetic. Both are chosen on grounds of both lyrics and music.
^ you need to go buy progress.
Um, the last maybe minute or so is my most favorite part ever. As soon as I hear it coming up, I just have to break out and start dancing or something similar to that. God, that part's just amazing.
God, no one ever posts about the meanings anymore. I just have to waste my time everytime I sign on here reading about how EVERY band is great.....even though Rx Bandits actually is. But that's beside the point!
Anybody got a take on the meaning of the song ? I'm especially curious of the meaning of "So find the fakest elation, I hope it takes you away. And I've got it all worked out now, Just a memory, picture frames illusion."
Anyway, this concludes my hypocritical post, in which I offer no meaning myself.
fakest elation = drugs, maybe? i heard that one of the other songs on The Resignation was about drugs. So maybe he's going back to that concept - also with society becoming more dependent on drugs and finding happiness in that.
I've got it all worked out now - self explanatory.
Just a memory, picture frames illusion. - actually, i always thought it was "just a memory - picture-framed illusion." memory, because it's quick and subjective so another thing that we're deluding ourselves. picture-framed illusion .. hmm .. i'm not sure, but that's got me thinking.
Well, I would say it has to do with a break up. The woman leaving him for someone else and him being left alone. She just simply replaced him for someone else and he has no one. He's saying did you take the love and happiness that you wanted before maybe things got rough and she baled on him for something "happier" but it's not really happy because it's just that beginning part of a relationship where everything is happy because you don't really know the other person. Or it could just be that fact that that is what I went through and how I relate to this song.
INSANE LIVE!
ok, I see it as a sort of plea about how society relies on sex so much in a relationship they forget about the whole "loving" each other in a nonphysical sense, which is just as important. That while DId you get what you wanted, did you get what you wanted now" part at least thats my take. I might be seein them live in san fran on like the 24th or something like that. yay
I think the song is about how we bullshit each other left and right. We seem to lie to each other (and even ourselves) with nearly every breath. The times when we are truly the most honest with each other is when we are the angriest, most frustrated, saddest, etc. and in those times we do nothing more than say shitty things to each other. We aren't feeling the love.
I think what he means with the rhetorical "have you ever been alone?" is that we don't consider the potential consequences of our actions. By this I mean that you don't really consider how lonely you might be or could be if you keep up the lying. Along with this he mentions that we're forgetting how to love, which is truly profound when you truly consider what that means. If you can't love anyone anymore, then you will know what it feels like to be "so truly alone, so freezing cold."
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