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.
Have you heard
of the word on the street
you’ve been walking down?
Save yourself, my friend.
Write this world an avenue and
help yourself free of this sin.
I'll be awaiting
Your ears.
(Be aggressive. B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E.)
I don’t want to love you anymore.
Don’t want to love you...
Have you learned
from the herd
that you’ve gone and mingled with?
Help will not come around.
Bite yourself with hope to break the
skin and bone that keep you here.
This is my world as I see fit
and you will not live.
(Be aggressive. B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E.)
(Now, boy, if you don’t give me the knife.)
I don’t want to love you anymore.
Don’t want to love you...
Here they come, my dear.
Last chance, piggy, there’s nobody in here.
Here they come, my dear.
If the worst comes a knocking, you better stay clear.
Here they come, my dear.
Last chance, piggy, there’s nobody in here.
Here they come, my dear.
Here they, here they come.
of the word on the street
you’ve been walking down?
Save yourself, my friend.
Write this world an avenue and
help yourself free of this sin.
I'll be awaiting
Your ears.
(Be aggressive. B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E.)
I don’t want to love you anymore.
Don’t want to love you...
Have you learned
from the herd
that you’ve gone and mingled with?
Help will not come around.
Bite yourself with hope to break the
skin and bone that keep you here.
This is my world as I see fit
and you will not live.
(Be aggressive. B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E.)
(Now, boy, if you don’t give me the knife.)
I don’t want to love you anymore.
Don’t want to love you...
Here they come, my dear.
Last chance, piggy, there’s nobody in here.
Here they come, my dear.
If the worst comes a knocking, you better stay clear.
Here they come, my dear.
Last chance, piggy, there’s nobody in here.
Here they come, my dear.
Here they, here they come.
Lyrics submitted by The_S0S
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Errrrr this leaked material then? If so, can anyone give me a download ;p!
I actually thought it was 'piggy'. You're probably right though. I could give a link to the whole album... but yeah.
It may be "piggy." That word's kind of hard to decipher. I went back and forth from picky and picking.
I wish I could figure out what they're saying in the background during the "I don't want to love you" part.
It is piggy, I have the album..preorder.
Alright. I'll change it. Any other corrections?
Okay- I be WAY off base - but the "babbing"... it sounds like a cheer I used to do in high school - because I hear the spelling of aggressive..
Wow, I think you're kinda right. You can hear them say "Aggressive! (something) A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E!"
But they say something before they start spelling it, I think. Any ideas? Was there something there in the cheer?
at first i thought it was "be aggressive, prize fighters are aggressive, B -E- A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E" but that doesn't sound right. im only kinda filling aggressive since the cheer was always "be aggressive, (School mascot) are aggressive, B-E- A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E."
This could either be two things.
Cecillia could have found Butchies cell now and he is telling her "Are you crazy!?! their gonna catch you and kill you!" Piggy i think refers to Butchies "evil" thoughts, so he is a pig? And basically the sotry ends with a scene of Cecillia finding Butchie Bleam and then the rest of the town coming to kill him she is discovered and now they intend to kill her so she needs to be aggressive and fight her way out and run to freedom. I feel that with this interpretation, Arthur McCloud is going to intervien in the next CD (hopefully :D and kill everyone or atleast enough of them so that he gets the revenge for his boys and then maybe cecilia forgives him and yada yada yada...
Or Possibly
This is Cecillia answering to Arthurs pleads for forgivness now as a much wiser and seemingly more authoritative. She tells him to run and get out of here or the town will surely kill him since she told them about what he did to her. This leaves the story with a possible next CD of maybe Arthur hoping to redeem himself with Cecillia by submitting himself to the blood machine so that butchie bleam can be set free and Cecillia will be happy again.
OR (if you have read my other interpretations) I could have F'd up this entire interpretation. But either way, you have to admit its an intresting story regardless lol.
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actually this guy pretty much got i think