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.
For those who mean it your skin will be cleaned
The scales you have shed for the family disease
Wash the salt from you palms
You're sweating it out I beg for the taste of it
Believing in him
Devil the fear of you in me
Delivering the failures that made me believe
There's no life worth living that children will leave
We'll separate the family disease we'll create
If we're dead we'll believe
It was diseased I was left just to see it
The rotting flesh my teeth were all broken from feeding
I found a better love as I aged
It progressed and left It's not over till It's over I said
Devil the fear of you in me
Delivering the failures that made me believe
There's no life worth living that children will leave
We'll separate the family disease we'll create
If we're dead we'll believe
Guard them demon
Let them to be headed
Kill them burn them
We'll be left seedless men
Kill them burn them
We'll be left seedless men
Kill them burn them
We'll be left
Found myself with a cheap mask in hand
Drowned out
Birth has it's hands reached out to welcome the sound of hell
Open your eyes breathe now
But don't move your mouth
Open your eyes child breathe now now
But don't move your mouth
All of my heartless life I die
My voice will change when I start to smile
My mind gets eaten away our children die die
Wash the salt from your palms you're sweating it out
I beg for the taste of it
Wash the salt from your palms sweating it out
I beg for the taste of it
Guard them demon
Let them to be headed
Kill them burn them
We'll be left seedless men
Kill them burn them
We'll be left seedless men
Kill them burn them
We'll be left
All of our sons and our daughters are dead
And the birth that we stole
Eater grows old
The scales you have shed for the family disease
Wash the salt from you palms
You're sweating it out I beg for the taste of it
Believing in him
Devil the fear of you in me
Delivering the failures that made me believe
There's no life worth living that children will leave
We'll separate the family disease we'll create
If we're dead we'll believe
It was diseased I was left just to see it
The rotting flesh my teeth were all broken from feeding
I found a better love as I aged
It progressed and left It's not over till It's over I said
Devil the fear of you in me
Delivering the failures that made me believe
There's no life worth living that children will leave
We'll separate the family disease we'll create
If we're dead we'll believe
Guard them demon
Let them to be headed
Kill them burn them
We'll be left seedless men
Kill them burn them
We'll be left seedless men
Kill them burn them
We'll be left
Found myself with a cheap mask in hand
Drowned out
Birth has it's hands reached out to welcome the sound of hell
Open your eyes breathe now
But don't move your mouth
Open your eyes child breathe now now
But don't move your mouth
All of my heartless life I die
My voice will change when I start to smile
My mind gets eaten away our children die die
Wash the salt from your palms you're sweating it out
I beg for the taste of it
Wash the salt from your palms sweating it out
I beg for the taste of it
Guard them demon
Let them to be headed
Kill them burn them
We'll be left seedless men
Kill them burn them
We'll be left seedless men
Kill them burn them
We'll be left
All of our sons and our daughters are dead
And the birth that we stole
Eater grows old
Lyrics submitted by aristuma21
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