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.
You could have been all I wanted
But you weren't honest
Now get in the ground
You choked off the surest of favors
But if you really loved me
You would've endured my will
Well if you're just as I presumed
A whore in sheep's clothing
Fucking up all I do
And if so here we stop
Then never again will you see this in your life
Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest, is our love ever low
With truth on the shores of confession
You seem to take premise to all of these songs
You stormed off to scar the armada
Like Jesus played letter
I'll drill through your hands
The stone for the curse you have blamed me
With love and devotion, I'll die as you sleep
But if you could just write me out
To neverless wonder, happy will I become?
Be true that this is no option
So with sin, I condemn you
Demon pray, demon out
Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest is our love ever low
With truth on the shores of confession
You seem to take premise to all of these songs
One last kiss for you
One more wish 'til you
Please make up your mind, girl
I'll do anything for you
One last kiss for you
One more wish 'til you
Please make up your mind, girl
Before I hope you die
But you weren't honest
Now get in the ground
You choked off the surest of favors
But if you really loved me
You would've endured my will
Well if you're just as I presumed
A whore in sheep's clothing
Fucking up all I do
And if so here we stop
Then never again will you see this in your life
Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest, is our love ever low
With truth on the shores of confession
You seem to take premise to all of these songs
You stormed off to scar the armada
Like Jesus played letter
I'll drill through your hands
The stone for the curse you have blamed me
With love and devotion, I'll die as you sleep
But if you could just write me out
To neverless wonder, happy will I become?
Be true that this is no option
So with sin, I condemn you
Demon pray, demon out
Hang on to the glory at my right hand
Here laid to rest is our love ever low
With truth on the shores of confession
You seem to take premise to all of these songs
One last kiss for you
One more wish 'til you
Please make up your mind, girl
I'll do anything for you
One last kiss for you
One more wish 'til you
Please make up your mind, girl
Before I hope you die
Lyrics submitted by hellarack99, edited by Mellow_Harsher, Shirbukh, rhystic1
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Now, I'd just like to educate everyone who seems to think that "Like Jesus played Martyr" makes no sense and that playing a letter (which is impossible and not a metaphor) does...
Martyr: somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce, or accept, a belief or cause
Jesus did this, died for our sins and had his hands drilled/nailed to the cross for that. It not only makes sense on it's own but with the next line, where the proposed "played letter" makes no sense and doesn't with the next line.
Please don't just think about what you hear, Claudio has a very unique voice, he isn't illiterate! You're insulting him!
Anyone who still isn't convinced: Imagine it pronounced "Mair-ter".
Really disappointed in humanity's abilities to put two and two together at the moment...
It is Martyr, I have the album sleeve, and the song book to prove it.<br /> It's obviously Martyr, concitering whats happening in the song, thats the point,<br /> <br /> You stormed off to scar the armada<br /> Like Jesus played MARTYR<br /> I'll drill through your hands<br /> STONED for the curse you have blamed me<br /> <br /> This song is about The Writing Writer raging at Erica Court, when she comes home, after he finds out about her betrayal.<br /> <br /> Worried about his slipping into insanity (see Ten Speed of Gods Blood and Burial For more on his insanity) Has betrayed his "curse" to mental professionals.<br /> <br /> He's accusing her of acting the Martyr, in effort to hurt him. <br /> <br /> I again remind you she THINKS he's crazy.
Actually, it could make perfect sense, given Claudio's penchant for not always being 100% straightforward with the lyrics. It could be a shortened way of saying "like Jesus, played to the letter". Don't get me wrong, martyr probably makes more sense there (and as Apollo pointed out that's what's said in the album sleeve, which not everybody has), but it's not exactly enunciated. It's rather ironic that you're accusing people of not thinking about what they hear when you didn't bother to consider that it's not a particularly long chain of logic to realize how the lyric could work if it were exactly as it sounded.
@chloehbug Definitely "martyr." In Neverender, I swear he says "Maker." :)