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.
from the sonar to the water break it went according to plan/then 2 buckets of blood passed thru the doctors hands/he pulled the baby out she reached for her son/his first breath was spit blood being patted from his lungs/they tried to clean him up but no amount of sponges/could stop it or the weeks they would observe untill the month ends/she had to leave him there once he started breathin air/he could leave she didnt need to be told his disease was rare/she wrapped him up warm signed some forms and left/by the time the elevator door would open he'd was wet/lobby to the street the
sky was black no stars and
3 blankets were soaked up by the time they got to the CAR
BLOOD THE RED FLOODS HOPELESSLY IN RUGS/SEARCHIN TO BE HELD BUT NOBODY WANTS TO HUG/DRUGGED THE PLOTS DUG I'M ONLY HERE FOR LOVE/SO WHEN IM SNUFFED YOU CAN ALL PRETEND YOU GAVE A FUCK
AND YOU CAN ALL PRETEND YOU NEVER GAVE UP
AND YOU CAN ALL PRETEND YOU NEVER GAVE UP
AND YOU CAN ALL PRETEND YOU NEVER GAVE UP
THEN YOU CAN ALL PRETEND YOU GAVE A FUCK
christmas time wrapped up in gause camouflaged /sittin on santa's lap to applause
and cause mall doors to exit the screams exiting jaws/when his pores pour out it shellacks the floors
unless you were massively hemorrhaging to death in a bath
would you ask to be sat next to blood boy in your class
in a pool of cranberry dirt and squandered skeletons
the worms are technicians when your relieved of modern medicine
more hemorrhaging high school first relationship deaths a friend
the color red leaking from fang holes in his neck again
some long to be near it sing songs and swear at
the crowds that flock up like sheep to stare at the
BLOOD THE RED FLOODS HOPELESSLY IN RUGS/SEARCHIN TO BE HELD BUT NOBODY WANTS TO HUG/DRUGGED THE PLOTS DUG I'M ONLY HERE FOR LOVE/SO WHEN IM SNUFFED YOU CAN ALL PRETEND YOU GAVE A FUCK
and you can all pretend you laid in blood
clothes ripped up the line across your stomach re-opened up
before sewn shut start to drift up then thrown back in the cut
after a flat line that could be enough
transfusions to plug god saves
live out the hell in health
but upon death came back to life as something else
and though it seems dead dreams of teens are left with them
where people worship gods that don't come from bethlehem
they know his name now his brains out
just wanted to find a way to turn the pain down
youth feed from his veins now
slowing the latency a hole becomes a vacancy
of patiently awaiting people that pay him to make em see
BLOOD THE RED FLOODS HOPELESSLY IN RUGS/SEARCHIN TO BE HELD BUT NOBODY WANTS TO HUG/DRUGGED THE PLOTS DUG I'M ONLY HERE FOR LOVE/SO WHEN IM SNUFFED YOU CAN ALL PRETEND YOU GAVE A FUCK
sky was black no stars and
3 blankets were soaked up by the time they got to the CAR
BLOOD THE RED FLOODS HOPELESSLY IN RUGS/SEARCHIN TO BE HELD BUT NOBODY WANTS TO HUG/DRUGGED THE PLOTS DUG I'M ONLY HERE FOR LOVE/SO WHEN IM SNUFFED YOU CAN ALL PRETEND YOU GAVE A FUCK
AND YOU CAN ALL PRETEND YOU NEVER GAVE UP
AND YOU CAN ALL PRETEND YOU NEVER GAVE UP
AND YOU CAN ALL PRETEND YOU NEVER GAVE UP
THEN YOU CAN ALL PRETEND YOU GAVE A FUCK
christmas time wrapped up in gause camouflaged /sittin on santa's lap to applause
and cause mall doors to exit the screams exiting jaws/when his pores pour out it shellacks the floors
unless you were massively hemorrhaging to death in a bath
would you ask to be sat next to blood boy in your class
in a pool of cranberry dirt and squandered skeletons
the worms are technicians when your relieved of modern medicine
more hemorrhaging high school first relationship deaths a friend
the color red leaking from fang holes in his neck again
some long to be near it sing songs and swear at
the crowds that flock up like sheep to stare at the
BLOOD THE RED FLOODS HOPELESSLY IN RUGS/SEARCHIN TO BE HELD BUT NOBODY WANTS TO HUG/DRUGGED THE PLOTS DUG I'M ONLY HERE FOR LOVE/SO WHEN IM SNUFFED YOU CAN ALL PRETEND YOU GAVE A FUCK
and you can all pretend you laid in blood
clothes ripped up the line across your stomach re-opened up
before sewn shut start to drift up then thrown back in the cut
after a flat line that could be enough
transfusions to plug god saves
live out the hell in health
but upon death came back to life as something else
and though it seems dead dreams of teens are left with them
where people worship gods that don't come from bethlehem
they know his name now his brains out
just wanted to find a way to turn the pain down
youth feed from his veins now
slowing the latency a hole becomes a vacancy
of patiently awaiting people that pay him to make em see
BLOOD THE RED FLOODS HOPELESSLY IN RUGS/SEARCHIN TO BE HELD BUT NOBODY WANTS TO HUG/DRUGGED THE PLOTS DUG I'M ONLY HERE FOR LOVE/SO WHEN IM SNUFFED YOU CAN ALL PRETEND YOU GAVE A FUCK
Lyrics submitted by Batousi
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this song's about being inconvenient ; since birth "bloodboy 's" only purpose is to trouble everyone around him (bloody towels n crap). the more he tries to be normal(sittin on santa's lap) , the more he's reminded of his disease, everyone pretends to give a "fuck" but everyone knows life is better without him... i think the third verse talks about doctors always reviving him there pretending to give a fuck but all there doing is living out the "hell in health"..(making it worst)
i think to sum it up
songs about being a waste of space, n people pretending its not true make it worst
good song, but what the hell is it about; a kid with a disease?
it almost sounds like the protagonist has TB. but yeah, i agree with Jayman. it definitely is leaning more towards about feeling like a burden for those are supposed to be closest to you. feeling as if from the moment you were born you were subject to bad luck and even worse affection. sad, but beautiful in the same breath.