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.
Children carry out your voice, it really matters
Carry on about your fight and who it shattered
The blood is skewn around
And they will kick a man when he's down
Children carry out your voice, it really matters
We are never right
We are forever wrong
And I believe
As I ran inside
We are good enough to be true
Children rise from this with forty words and forty fists
Carry on around their hope before they're broken
If the people live in doubt and scream the way out, the way out, the way out!
Children carry out your voice it's all that matters
We are never right
We are forever wrong
And I believe
As I ran inside
We are good enough to be true
And we don't want to know everything
We wanna know one thing
Only tell us where the blood is
We will clean it up
And we don't want to know everything
We wanna know one thing
Only tell us where the blood is
We will clean it up
We are never right
We are forever wrong
And I believe
As I ran inside
We are good enough to be true
We are never right
We are never wrong
And I believe
As I ran inside
We are good enough to true
Carry on about your fight and who it shattered
The blood is skewn around
And they will kick a man when he's down
Children carry out your voice, it really matters
We are never right
We are forever wrong
And I believe
As I ran inside
We are good enough to be true
Children rise from this with forty words and forty fists
Carry on around their hope before they're broken
If the people live in doubt and scream the way out, the way out, the way out!
Children carry out your voice it's all that matters
We are never right
We are forever wrong
And I believe
As I ran inside
We are good enough to be true
And we don't want to know everything
We wanna know one thing
Only tell us where the blood is
We will clean it up
And we don't want to know everything
We wanna know one thing
Only tell us where the blood is
We will clean it up
We are never right
We are forever wrong
And I believe
As I ran inside
We are good enough to be true
We are never right
We are never wrong
And I believe
As I ran inside
We are good enough to true
Lyrics submitted by fab666
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