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.
Sally was a fifteen year old girl from Nebraska
Gypsies were passing through her little town
They dropped something on the road, she picked it up
And cultural revolution right away begun
Oh no, cultural revolution just begun
Oh no, cultural revolution just begun, all right
They always were afraid that I was schizophrenic
They always were afraid schto ja rodinu prodam
A po pravde ja bil prosto malenkij medvedik
Spizdil vsjo you vseh i vsjo nahuj proebal
Oh no, cultural revolution just begun
Oh no, cultural revolution just begun, all right
From all the tables of contents that Mother Earth provides
I'd like to be a big fat fucking fly
The one that spins around your head all day and all night
And sound of it is just like a what?
But by the accident of some kind divine dispensation
I ended up being a walking United Nation
And I survived even fucking radiation
A big fat fucking what?
And I would visit you a lot
Gypsies were passing through her little town
They dropped something on the road, she picked it up
And cultural revolution right away begun
Oh no, cultural revolution just begun
Oh no, cultural revolution just begun, all right
They always were afraid that I was schizophrenic
They always were afraid schto ja rodinu prodam
A po pravde ja bil prosto malenkij medvedik
Spizdil vsjo you vseh i vsjo nahuj proebal
Oh no, cultural revolution just begun
Oh no, cultural revolution just begun, all right
From all the tables of contents that Mother Earth provides
I'd like to be a big fat fucking fly
The one that spins around your head all day and all night
And sound of it is just like a what?
But by the accident of some kind divine dispensation
I ended up being a walking United Nation
And I survived even fucking radiation
A big fat fucking what?
And I would visit you a lot
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I'd like to be a big fat fucking fly The one that spins around your head all day and all night and sound of it is just like a what?...
haha great.
"And I survive even fucking radiation"
Lead singer Eugene Hutz is from Ukraine and his family was forced to emmigrate due to the 1986 explosion of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant...this part of his life is also alluded to in the song "Never Young"
Yeah, the fly concept is GREAT. :P
There must be: "a po pravde ja bil prosto malenkij medvedik sel na velosipedik i vsjo nahuj proebal..."
i think eugene is refering sally to his own childhood if you ever heard the song nomdic cronicles herefers to it again but not as sally as himself
some translation:
they always were afraid that i will betray my homeland in fact i was just a little bear who was cycling and lost fucking everything
whoever wrote these lyrics is wrong.. it's not "yes right away begun" it's "oh no...cult- revolution just begun-ah oh no...cult- revolution just begun-ah"
This song is so great. The end get's me every time
Spizdil vsjo u vseh i vsjo nahuj proebal
actually means
i took everything from everyone and fucked it to nothing.
or it could mean also i took everything from everyone and fucked everything (or destroyed it).