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.
Heaven today is but a way
To a place I once called home
Heart of a child, one final sigh
As another love goes cold
Once my heart beats to the rhythm of the falling snow
blackened below
The river now flows - a stream on molten virgin snow
For the heart I'll never have
For the child forever gone
The music flows because it longs
For the heart I once had
Living today without a way
To understand the weight of the world
Faded and torn, old and forlorn
My weak and hoping heart
For the child, for the night
For the heart I once had
I believe and foresee
Everything I could ever be
Time will not heal a dead boy's scars
Time will kill
To a place I once called home
Heart of a child, one final sigh
As another love goes cold
Once my heart beats to the rhythm of the falling snow
blackened below
The river now flows - a stream on molten virgin snow
For the heart I'll never have
For the child forever gone
The music flows because it longs
For the heart I once had
Living today without a way
To understand the weight of the world
Faded and torn, old and forlorn
My weak and hoping heart
For the child, for the night
For the heart I once had
I believe and foresee
Everything I could ever be
Time will not heal a dead boy's scars
Time will kill
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@dolls..yes perhaps. Certainly the split was hard for him and, judging by the songs, he seemed to be quite upset. I think this song deals in general with the "self pitying" thing Tuomas likes so much lol. He doesn't like himself, he clearly stated it. And in this song he tells us he was better before and his heart is now cold and torn: "Faded and torn, old and forlorn My weak and hoping heart"
The child means innocence, and what he was before. I like the lyrics of this song (not the music though), it's very sadl. My favourite part is: "Time will not heal a Dead Boy`s scars Time will kill"