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.
Lips growing for service
Eyes steady for peeling
Bring on the special guest
A monkey caught stealing
Standard rewards in corners
Is full-board in new quarters
Kneeling for pleasure
Ensures a good time
I remember, I remember
Making the body search
I remember, I remember
Making the body search
Someone is taking you
Someone has taken me
TV doesn't understand
A word that matters
Scattering desires to
Smouldering fires
Someone has taken you
Someone is taking me
I remember, I remember
Making the body search
I remember, I remember
Making the body search
I remember
Making the body search
That it was nothing
But enough for ahead
I remember
Making the body search
That it was nothing
But enough for ahead
Eyes steady for peeling
Bring on the special guest
A monkey caught stealing
Standard rewards in corners
Is full-board in new quarters
Kneeling for pleasure
Ensures a good time
I remember, I remember
Making the body search
I remember, I remember
Making the body search
Someone is taking you
Someone has taken me
TV doesn't understand
A word that matters
Scattering desires to
Smouldering fires
Someone has taken you
Someone is taking me
I remember, I remember
Making the body search
I remember, I remember
Making the body search
I remember
Making the body search
That it was nothing
But enough for ahead
I remember
Making the body search
That it was nothing
But enough for ahead
Lyrics submitted by RobotRock
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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 don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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this song is about getting a blowjob
...Or not, I see it as a big "fuck you" to corruption in full circle.
I think that it's about feeling cheated and lied to, be it by a greater system that feels rigged or in a relationship that feels false. In the end, even the person deceiving you has been duped, thinking that they've gained something from pulling the wool over your eyes when they're just as screwed as you, and what you're both given is only enough to move "forward" and "up"... That is, nowhere of any meaning.
Pretty bleak, but beautiful.
Anyone ever heard a live version of this song? Very intense and far less dour than the original, in particular the rushing hi-hat-driven backbeat and psychotic, giddy vocal harmonies. Overall, not to far from Newman's early solo work, minus the heavy-as-hell Thorne production (which I love for quite different reasons).
Suprised no one's noted the meaning of this song which I thought was reasonably well known/clear. Its about vivsection. The growing lips and peeled eyes are of animal experiments, as are the "full board in new quarters" (presumably a cage in a lab).
"TV doesn't understand a word that matters" I think refers to the word vivisection in this case. Its a bit hard to google "wire ahead" to get a refernce, but I know I read it somewhere.
To me it's obvious this song is about oral sex. The title is word play: ahead = a head. "it's enough for ahead/a head"
It's about giving head to someone, not receiving it. I think it's most likely about cunnilingus, especially if the "lips" in the first line refers to the labia. Otherwise it could also be anilingus.
So "lips growing for service" could either be the receiver's labia swelling, getting ready to be served, or it could be about the lips of the giver who is getting ready to serve.
If this is the true meaning, "kneeling for pleasure" is pretty obvious. The giver is kneeling before the recipient of the "service".
"Making the body search" would be a reference to a "cavity search", wherein a police officer, prison guard etc is searching the body cavities of someone to see if they've smuggled something inside it. The "monkey caught stealing" in the song could be about the person being searched (for stolen goods) or the singer being caught and "punished" by having to do sexual service to the other person.
"scattering desires" is more evidence this is about something sexual. "smothering fires" could be metaphorically about someone who is so turned on they're "on fire" and the singer is using their mouth and tongue to "smother" the fire. Or it could be that the fires (desires) themselves are smothering, like they're too overwhelming.
I don't understand the thing about the "TV" though or what the "word that matters" could be about.