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.
Don't act like you've been silent
I know how you spread that
Web of contradictions
Wide like so much cover fire
Keep watch for the mines
Keep watch for the mines
Be careful who you
Wave that tongue at 'round here
I've seen smarter acts than yours
Get disappeared
If you keep swinging that knife
All over this town
You are bound
To get your own back stabbed
Keep watch for the mines
The concealed dangers
The traps and the coils of the wires
With the sharp razors
The ditches and the trenches and the smiles
Of the grave diggers
And if you're told
The answer needs no questioning
The answer is a lie
Keep watch for the mines
Keep watch for the mines
Keep watch for the mines (will they bleed everyone out)
Will they bleed everyone out?
Keep watch for the mines (will they bleed everyone out)
Before they die?
Keep watch for the mines (will they bleed everyone out)
Will they bleed everyone out?
Keep watch for the mines (will they bleed everyone out)
Before they die?
Keep watch for the mines
The concealed dangers
The traps and the coils of the wires
With the sharp razors
The ditches and the trenches and the smiles
Of the grave diggers
And if you're told
The answer needs no questioning
The answer is a lie
Keep watch for the mines
Keep watch for the mines
I know how you spread that
Web of contradictions
Wide like so much cover fire
Keep watch for the mines
Keep watch for the mines
Be careful who you
Wave that tongue at 'round here
I've seen smarter acts than yours
Get disappeared
If you keep swinging that knife
All over this town
You are bound
To get your own back stabbed
Keep watch for the mines
The concealed dangers
The traps and the coils of the wires
With the sharp razors
The ditches and the trenches and the smiles
Of the grave diggers
And if you're told
The answer needs no questioning
The answer is a lie
Keep watch for the mines
Keep watch for the mines
Keep watch for the mines (will they bleed everyone out)
Will they bleed everyone out?
Keep watch for the mines (will they bleed everyone out)
Before they die?
Keep watch for the mines (will they bleed everyone out)
Will they bleed everyone out?
Keep watch for the mines (will they bleed everyone out)
Before they die?
Keep watch for the mines
The concealed dangers
The traps and the coils of the wires
With the sharp razors
The ditches and the trenches and the smiles
Of the grave diggers
And if you're told
The answer needs no questioning
The answer is a lie
Keep watch for the mines
Keep watch for the mines
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
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Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
I think it goes "You are bound to get your own back stabbed" instead of "arm back stabbed." :)
This song makes me think of someone I know who gets in these moods sometimes where no matter what you say, she tells you you're wrong, and she says it with this smile and this laugh, like she thinks she's being funny, but it actually hurts. And when you try to explain yourself, she won't let you talk, she just talks over you, keeps telling you you're wrong. "The ditches and the trenches and the smiles of the gravediggers." She just wants so bad to bring you down, and smiles while she does it. "Web of contradictions" because she could just as easily say the same thing you just did, but no one would put her down for it. I guess "keeping watch for the mines" would be trying to avoid getting in those situations, avoiding saying things that would give her ammunition. That's what it makes me think of. Like most Dashboard songs, I'm sure it can be interpreted in a million different ways.