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.
My eyes hold the eventide,
albeit behind the eys thou hast
thro' which I 'hold naught else
a flame enshroudéd in its blackness;
but the raven;
burning without the faintest breeze.
Sleep my dearest ones -
teach me, dearest, the reason wherefore
mind not the palling velvet darkness
thou by such angst mark'd art?!
Wherefore is here loneliness?;
infinite hollowness
in which my thoughts echo,
to the shadows I whisper -
with the shadows I waltz -
bear me; I am not the plague,
altho' nightclad death...mayhap?!
Dare not naysaying my grant;
dance no longer with the shadows,
vanish with me abaft the unlight! -
dance no longer with the dead in the graveyard;
O! the tast on thine lips;
dance with me the mephisto waltz.
A trickling deep red love -
wedlock 'twixt day and night -
everlasting lightheartédness -
offer me relief fro the sunrays.
A kiss for thee my dear.
Ah! Such delight I sense:
eternally and ne'erendingly;
savour the bitter grapes of life!
A soulsister of thine I am.
Let me openly greet thy kiss;
the most loving and caring bites.
Grant me thineself!,
I bore the woe in my heart
My heart was shatter'd into its tithe,
as I depart embrace me,
save yet are its chambers in flood.
And in paltry time will I re-awake -
I love thee.
albeit behind the eys thou hast
thro' which I 'hold naught else
a flame enshroudéd in its blackness;
but the raven;
burning without the faintest breeze.
Sleep my dearest ones -
teach me, dearest, the reason wherefore
mind not the palling velvet darkness
thou by such angst mark'd art?!
Wherefore is here loneliness?;
infinite hollowness
in which my thoughts echo,
to the shadows I whisper -
with the shadows I waltz -
bear me; I am not the plague,
altho' nightclad death...mayhap?!
Dare not naysaying my grant;
dance no longer with the shadows,
vanish with me abaft the unlight! -
dance no longer with the dead in the graveyard;
O! the tast on thine lips;
dance with me the mephisto waltz.
A trickling deep red love -
wedlock 'twixt day and night -
everlasting lightheartédness -
offer me relief fro the sunrays.
A kiss for thee my dear.
Ah! Such delight I sense:
eternally and ne'erendingly;
savour the bitter grapes of life!
A soulsister of thine I am.
Let me openly greet thy kiss;
the most loving and caring bites.
Grant me thineself!,
I bore the woe in my heart
My heart was shatter'd into its tithe,
as I depart embrace me,
save yet are its chambers in flood.
And in paltry time will I re-awake -
I love thee.
Lyrics submitted by Ragebox
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