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.
I wanna rob you of your game face
So I can cower beneath your words
'Cause I'm a freak from the same place
Let suicide make a meal for birds
Into your heart, I've got the dagger
The metaphor will suffice for now
Get in my bed, I wanna kill you
Show you mine if you show me how
I get angry
When you're around
When you're around
I get nasty
When you're around
When you're around
She slit her wrists
For attention in 1996
She slit her wrists
Listening to live through this
So here I am, will you deny me
Metal now but I've always been
Lets make a toast, let's do the oil spill
Let the seagulls pick out the sins
I want it now, I want the danger
Give me strength and I'll give you wings
I get angry
When you're around
When you're around
I get nasty
When you're around
When you're around
Low
I get angry
When you're around
When you're around
I get nasty
When you're around
When you're around
I get angry
When you're around
When you're around
I get nasty
When you're around
When you're around
So I can cower beneath your words
'Cause I'm a freak from the same place
Let suicide make a meal for birds
Into your heart, I've got the dagger
The metaphor will suffice for now
Get in my bed, I wanna kill you
Show you mine if you show me how
I get angry
When you're around
When you're around
I get nasty
When you're around
When you're around
She slit her wrists
For attention in 1996
She slit her wrists
Listening to live through this
So here I am, will you deny me
Metal now but I've always been
Lets make a toast, let's do the oil spill
Let the seagulls pick out the sins
I want it now, I want the danger
Give me strength and I'll give you wings
I get angry
When you're around
When you're around
I get nasty
When you're around
When you're around
Low
I get angry
When you're around
When you're around
I get nasty
When you're around
When you're around
I get angry
When you're around
When you're around
I get nasty
When you're around
When you're around
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this is my interpretation of it.
i think that there is a couple, maybe like romeo and juliet. they aren't supposed to like each other, but they do and the girl does a better job of hiding it. i think that they're both in the same state of mind and can't stand it, but they don't want to end their lives and become something so insignificant.
it's an angry relationship. they fight when in the open, and they use words like daggers to make it seem like they aren't into each other (this would be the metaphor). i agree that they do enjoy sex, but i wouldn't think it's angry...just hidden, and apparently max wants to do it hard as to "kill" her. he will show his "male parts" (haha) if she shows him how to have sex. this is such a weird interpretation.
i think that max has to pretend to be angry and nasty when he is around her.
then i think it changes when the girl kills herself. i think that maybe the girl wanted their relationship to be more open, perhaps? i think this really changes max into a more depressed person.
then he is here, and i think he is ready to commit suicide, and does not want the suicide to "deny him." he is now cold on the inside, but he has always been; and i guess he feels guilty that he wasn't more warm to this girl.
i think that the "lets make a toast, lets do the oil spill, let the seagulls pick out the sins" just refers to death in general. many things die in oil spills, and the use of "but suicide makes a meal for birds" in the beginning kind of implies that he's going to commit suicide because he's screwed up so many times before, and now he just wants life to be over.
he wants to die now and wants the danger of knowing that his last moments are near. if he gets the courage to die, maybe they can be together again.
then i think he's just reminiscing at the end, and wishing that he hadn't been so angry, nasty and cold to the girl while she was sill alive.
this is probably a completely wrong interpretation, but it's what i got from the song. max bemis is genius for being able to write about major things like death and sex so metaphorically.