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.
Sever.
And step forward.
I will separate myself from you.
I will walk this line unassisted and undeterred.
Sever.
Sever the strings.
I’ll cast aside your focus shifted too much for me to not question.
Your sincerity.
To manufacture misery.
Everything you ever wanted.
Everything you ever knew.
Everything yo ever lust for will be taken from you.
Your reflection.
Ghost of a beauty queen.
Plagued with fashion.
And stain our mouths with worthless deception.
You’re a plastic perfection.
We’ll burn you to the ground.
Everything you ever wanted.
Everything you ever knew.
Everything you ever lust for will be taken from you.
Everything you ever knew.
Everything you ever lust for will be taken from your heart.
When did this all become so meaningless?
As to your second skin.
Now the wolves become nothing more that sheep.
We set flame these apathetic trends.
Set flame the paths that have led us astray for to long.
Set flame the paths that have led us astray for the last time.
Burn.
All bets are off.
I’ll watch the heartless burn.
Tomorrow dawn will be alight with our burning bridges.
All bets are off.
I’ll watch the heartless burn.
Tomorrow dawn will be alight through seasons change I’ve watched you waste away.
Shed your skin and become.
Reach inside your chest and remove what’s left of your blackened heart.
Through the seasons change I’ve watched you waste away.
And become one with the damned.
You lust for.
Reach inside your chest and remove what’s left of your blackened heart with disdain.
And step forward.
I will separate myself from you.
I will walk this line unassisted and undeterred.
Sever.
Sever the strings.
I’ll cast aside your focus shifted too much for me to not question.
Your sincerity.
To manufacture misery.
Everything you ever wanted.
Everything you ever knew.
Everything yo ever lust for will be taken from you.
Your reflection.
Ghost of a beauty queen.
Plagued with fashion.
And stain our mouths with worthless deception.
You’re a plastic perfection.
We’ll burn you to the ground.
Everything you ever wanted.
Everything you ever knew.
Everything you ever lust for will be taken from you.
Everything you ever knew.
Everything you ever lust for will be taken from your heart.
When did this all become so meaningless?
As to your second skin.
Now the wolves become nothing more that sheep.
We set flame these apathetic trends.
Set flame the paths that have led us astray for to long.
Set flame the paths that have led us astray for the last time.
Burn.
All bets are off.
I’ll watch the heartless burn.
Tomorrow dawn will be alight with our burning bridges.
All bets are off.
I’ll watch the heartless burn.
Tomorrow dawn will be alight through seasons change I’ve watched you waste away.
Shed your skin and become.
Reach inside your chest and remove what’s left of your blackened heart.
Through the seasons change I’ve watched you waste away.
And become one with the damned.
You lust for.
Reach inside your chest and remove what’s left of your blackened heart with disdain.
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Kirkrod, I say this with no offense intended. It's just the unimportant opining of a worn down, arbitrary, angst-ridden clichè of a man.
I understand this song may offend you, if only by your interpretation of it. Words only have the solidity they do because of the meanings, feelings and hidden meanings we filter them through. Words are inert. Dead. In-and-of-themselves.
With a song, no matter how SEEMINGLY blatant obviousness of the meaning, we can only fully understand what the writer cares to share. And even then our certainty of fact is dictated by the subconcious/concious thoughts and feelings of the writer coming out in his or her work.
reality is perrception.
corollary:
what we percieve as reality IS reality.
That goes for the whole anti-christian/anti-religion INTERPRETATION as well.