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.
Emerald figures shining in darkness
Forty souls are locked in stone
A thousand eyes open to see
The wolves of ruin devouring me
Dying hearts of unkown voices
leave my hope under fallen stars
Their beating echoes only pain
Their blood red lips call out my name
Specters of somber sullen face
Piercing pale dry light of fire
Mirror's like silver maryrs
Falling from the sky
The clouds that line the bed of sleep
Pound with thunder underneath
My tired eyes that strain to see
All that reigns inside of me
CHORUS
Haunting the solace
Of the sleeping world
The darkness falls like lead
Haunting the Obscure...
Specters of a somber sullen face
Piercing pale dry light of fire
Voyeurs in my hour of darkness
When is it that they will rest
Like kings they come in deepest night
A crown of thorns for lack of sight
To rule with voices cast in lead
Echoing forever in my head
Forty souls are locked in stone
A thousand eyes open to see
The wolves of ruin devouring me
Dying hearts of unkown voices
leave my hope under fallen stars
Their beating echoes only pain
Their blood red lips call out my name
Specters of somber sullen face
Piercing pale dry light of fire
Mirror's like silver maryrs
Falling from the sky
The clouds that line the bed of sleep
Pound with thunder underneath
My tired eyes that strain to see
All that reigns inside of me
CHORUS
Haunting the solace
Of the sleeping world
The darkness falls like lead
Haunting the Obscure...
Specters of a somber sullen face
Piercing pale dry light of fire
Voyeurs in my hour of darkness
When is it that they will rest
Like kings they come in deepest night
A crown of thorns for lack of sight
To rule with voices cast in lead
Echoing forever in my head
Lyrics submitted by Arm
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