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.
The lyrics in the one by G love and Special Sauce look suspiciously, are are phrased WAY too much like Guitar Slim (Eddie Jones) in his 1964 recording of: 'The Things I Used To Do.'
Lyrics:
The things that I used to do
Lord I just won't do no more.
The things that I used to do
Lord I just won't do no more.
I use to sit up and hold your hand baby,
And cry... oh baby please do not go.
I would search all night for ya darlin
Lord knows my search would always be in vain
I would search all night for ya darlin
Lord knows my search would always be in vain
But I knew all along, that you was hid out with
Your other man.
I will send you back to your mother babe
Lord know I'll go back to my family too.
I will send you back to your mother babe
Lord know I'll go back to my family too.
Ain't nuthin I do will please ya girl,
Lord knows I just can't get along with you.
Never do them no more baby
Things that I used to do
I ain't never gonna do them no more
Used to bother you around
Tears in my eye, low to the ground
Try and get slower, we been nowhere
You would leave me
Like twinkle soul
Is where to go
Baby you and me
Get with the roll
Here's a love song yeah
And I'm gonna sing it to you so slow
In your eardrum getting ready
All night long I rock steady
Always glowing like rudolphs nose at
Christmas time
Sure to glowin
Shining, undermining,
In your veins all in your mind
Upside you brain
Knock down deliver like hot tamales
I start to simmer
Things that I used to do
I ain't never gonna umm do them no
More
Things that I used to do...yeah
Never ever gonna do them no more
Used to bother you around
Tears in my eye, sinkin low to the ground
Lower than the ocean, swimmin in the
Sea
Like I m a sword fish, check me
Baby shinin all night long
Just to get some
The things the house man used to do
Never ever gonna do them no more
Yeah the thing that the marshmellow
Man- jimmy -jazz prescot on the bass
Used to do
Never ever gonna do them no more
The things that I used to do
Never never never never gonna do them no
More
Lyrics:
The things that I used to do
Lord I just won't do no more.
The things that I used to do
Lord I just won't do no more.
I use to sit up and hold your hand baby,
And cry... oh baby please do not go.
I would search all night for ya darlin
Lord knows my search would always be in vain
I would search all night for ya darlin
Lord knows my search would always be in vain
But I knew all along, that you was hid out with
Your other man.
I will send you back to your mother babe
Lord know I'll go back to my family too.
I will send you back to your mother babe
Lord know I'll go back to my family too.
Ain't nuthin I do will please ya girl,
Lord knows I just can't get along with you.
Never do them no more baby
Things that I used to do
I ain't never gonna do them no more
Used to bother you around
Tears in my eye, low to the ground
Try and get slower, we been nowhere
You would leave me
Like twinkle soul
Is where to go
Baby you and me
Get with the roll
Here's a love song yeah
And I'm gonna sing it to you so slow
In your eardrum getting ready
All night long I rock steady
Always glowing like rudolphs nose at
Christmas time
Sure to glowin
Shining, undermining,
In your veins all in your mind
Upside you brain
Knock down deliver like hot tamales
I start to simmer
Things that I used to do
I ain't never gonna umm do them no
More
Things that I used to do...yeah
Never ever gonna do them no more
Used to bother you around
Tears in my eye, sinkin low to the ground
Lower than the ocean, swimmin in the
Sea
Like I m a sword fish, check me
Baby shinin all night long
Just to get some
The things the house man used to do
Never ever gonna do them no more
Yeah the thing that the marshmellow
Man- jimmy -jazz prescot on the bass
Used to do
Never ever gonna do them no more
The things that I used to do
Never never never never gonna do them no
More
Lyrics submitted by irrelevance10
The Things That I Used to Do Lyrics as written by Garrett Dutton James H. Prescott
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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