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.
On the way
On the way home
I saw a rainbow beneath my feet
Flowing over the filthy street
Oh yeah
It's a long
It's a long way
Back to the place where we used to sit
When you and I were just little kids
The time we had is not gone
The way we chose was the long one
The time we had is not gone
The stone that fell is still falling
So let that stone be the wondrous thing
That comes to pass when our voices sing
Oh yeah
On the way
On the way home
I heard some ghosts laughing in the trees
Moving inside the midnight breeze
The time we had is not gone
The way we chose was the long one
The time we had is not gone
Way out here
The voice and the mind are clear
The time we had is not gone
The way we chose was the long one
The time we had is not gone
The time we had is not gone
On the way home
I saw a rainbow beneath my feet
Flowing over the filthy street
Oh yeah
It's a long
It's a long way
Back to the place where we used to sit
When you and I were just little kids
The time we had is not gone
The way we chose was the long one
The time we had is not gone
The stone that fell is still falling
So let that stone be the wondrous thing
That comes to pass when our voices sing
Oh yeah
On the way
On the way home
I heard some ghosts laughing in the trees
Moving inside the midnight breeze
The time we had is not gone
The way we chose was the long one
The time we had is not gone
Way out here
The voice and the mind are clear
The time we had is not gone
The way we chose was the long one
The time we had is not gone
The time we had is not gone
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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Great version of a great song,
I played this song on Rock Band with some of my best friends, the day before I moved across the country for my career. It's about all the things we love, about innocence, about our primal connection with the world. We talk as if we lose those things as we go about our lives, but they didn't go anywhere. We're on a long journey, but in time we will come back to them.
It also reminds me of my college class on existentialism with Robert Solomon, god rest his soul. He taught us about Camus's Myth of Sisyphus: "He chooses to care about the stone. The stone is his Thing."