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.
In her father's Lincoln Continental, we planned wedding vows and pulled off a flask. She says, "My dear, I'll alleviate." She wants mirrored ceilings and their finest wine. We got the room just fine, but we got Early Times. Say that we are simply co-existing. Say this isn't what you've always wanted. My darling, manicures are grating Teflon.
We relate to suffice. We got more sights to see. You know the figures won't lie. So start a viral routine.
She's got a masculine relapse so get paternal arms.
She's just nineteen but with a sailor's mouth… only when carnal verses become obvious. It's a commonplace down by the Venetian for a bride to put down her ring on a hand. Say that your liver isn't that excited. Say this isn't what you've always wanted. It's flesh and flesh on flesh; we are but fiction.
Like the surveys say:
We've got bloodstreams to mingle. It's like an open marriage revised.
We've got options so it's clear that options are the spoils of the trade.
We can't survive as the few who deem pheromones more than capsules.
She's got a masculine relapse so stage all it's worth. C'mon, the season ends and let's get desperate. Just as long as we all stay intact, stay entwined.
We relate to suffice. We got more sights to see. You know the figures won't lie. So start a viral routine.
She's got a masculine relapse so get paternal arms.
She's just nineteen but with a sailor's mouth… only when carnal verses become obvious. It's a commonplace down by the Venetian for a bride to put down her ring on a hand. Say that your liver isn't that excited. Say this isn't what you've always wanted. It's flesh and flesh on flesh; we are but fiction.
Like the surveys say:
We've got bloodstreams to mingle. It's like an open marriage revised.
We've got options so it's clear that options are the spoils of the trade.
We can't survive as the few who deem pheromones more than capsules.
She's got a masculine relapse so stage all it's worth. C'mon, the season ends and let's get desperate. Just as long as we all stay intact, stay entwined.
Lyrics submitted by maz
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from The Stiletto Formal Myspace blog
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lyrics 2 This song is about a young couple that elopes to Vegas. I wanted to write something romantic but in a post-modern, somewhat trashy way and the shotgun wedding is what came out. I also have some personal ties to Vegas and the sometimes chaotic nature of the song felt right for it. I don't know why but it felt like the marriage should last but I had to make it fall apart. It's the cynic in me.
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