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.
Yeah, the reunion
See, Papoose, he slaughtered the alphabet
But it's on life support
See me? I'm an assassin
I finish the job every time
A i'm an anarchist and an
Angry academic activist
Axe and assassinate the alphabet
In an ambulance
Ahki I'm aggy and I'm actually anti arrogant
Artists that ask in American
Accents by accident b
Batter babbling battlers with a
Bag of batteries
Ban these bias blaggers because
They're badly backwards b
Batty bible bashers get badded
Basra to Brackenbury
Baffle backpackers with bars bad as
A big of b
C catty crackheads get cancelled
Canada to Canterbury
Cussing my click catch a
Cavalry crashed into casualty
A cunning culprit that
Covers conversation candidly
Cool calculated cannibal that
Causes carnage casually
D diddy didn't do diddly, dead it
Did it with dignity
You dilly dally and diss from
Distance dig it I disagree
You did it for digit's
Dickhead dummy I do it differently
I define deliberately diligent delivery
E
Coz everything is everything it's evidence
My essence is every element
Effortlessly edit your enterprise
With eloquence
Elevate with the energy of Eminem
Every entity that's ever been a
Enemy I'm ending them
F the fact is I fracture
Factors to fragments fantastically
Fibbers fabricate fallacies and find fantasy
I flip faithless fellas from fakers
To flippin fans of me
Flippantly famish and finish
These fanatics factually g
Give gangsters gangrene and
Gain green gradually
Grapple and gatecrash your gathering with
A gang of Gs
Gallivanting geezers get guided to the galaxy
Or gallows for gambling with
A generals geniality
H i'll happily hack hackers that happen to
Have a hack at me
Like Hatton I'm habitually hazardous how
It has to be
Hospitalise haters from Holland
Holloway or Hackney hate hagglers and I hang
'em with a handkerchief
I illustrious illustrator
Illest in the industry
Illicitly cause illiterate idiots injury
Impatient cause Illuminati impede
My innovations
While ignorant imbeciles idolise
My imitations
J
I jack a jackal for his jacket and just jam
Got jittery jockeys jabbering
Jamaica to Japan
Got jealous junkie jokers jabbing
January-to-January
My journal is a journey just
Don't jinx my jiggy jamboree
K i'm the key, the king, the Kaiser
Reminding my kin of karma i'm a kangaroo
Keep in your kennel you curb koala
Kidnapping kleptomaniacs since kindergarten
Killer kitties will give their kidney for a
Kit kat or a kipper l
I'm a lyricist's lyricist
Livid with little listeners
Listen, I'm loving living cause
Life is literally limited
My live lyrics lift lyricism levels luckily
Til I leave the labyrinth of
London and live in luxury
M meanwhile my motives to motivate and
Mobilise my monster men
My missions to minimise misdemeanours
Mere monuments of these midgets make
Me milli for minutes i may be a mad Mongrel
And a manic Mesopotamian maniac
N no my narratives
Not for narcoleptic narcissists
Naive native nitwit's natter
Negative nastiness
Numerous naughty nymphos niggle up
To my navel, no
I neglect the negligee and navigate to Naples
O when I operate
Obsolete opposition get obliterated
Often obese officers ogle as their occupation
Obviously offing other obstacles
Is my obligation
Originality over Oscar ovations
P it's Poisonous Poets, poised at the pulpit
Pulverise poachers and pointless posers
With potently poignant poems
We practically panic paparazzi
Passive passengers just planning to pack P's
And prang patchy pampering pansies
Q quality over quantity
Qualify quantum physics
I question quarrelly quacks and
I quickly quadruple quizzes
A quarter get queasy and query
With queer quotes though
These quirky quibblers get
Crippled like Quasimodo
R righteous revolution ragamuffin
Repping reality really rebelling
Recruiting ready regiments rapidly
Remorseless renegade
Riddims and records ripping radio
Rapping rattlers really rally rating my ratio
S i separately severed several stupid
Students for steppin
And still slewing sacrilegious super
Sadists in seconds
Speak to Styz and savagely
Smack up studio sessions
Suave swingers spitting sickest
Similes in seven
T topped the talent and tenacious
Tendencies of Tyson tipped as a terrifying
Terrorist tackling titans
Tokyo to Tennessee, taxing timid tourists
Through turbulent times I tangle
With total torment
U understand I'm unbelievable
That's an understatement
Uglifier, giving ultimatums to undertakers
Unanimous, undisputed, unfuckwithable
Unforgiving to ugglesome uncles
They're unoriginal
V verbally violent and victims
Validate my visions
Vaporising, vanish various vigilant villains
Vividly victorious over a variety of vixens
Venomous viper vanquishes vampires
With vengeance
W these wobbling wackos are just waiting
To work for wages
My words are weapons willing to wage
War on you wimpy wasters
X i see through you xenophobic x-men
With a x ray
Ex out Xmas with a x rated sex tape
Y these yuppies are yapping
I'm yawning, yearning for yesterday
Years when youngers played with yo yo's
Not yet with yé
Z i'm as zealous as Zeppelin and
Zappa in my zones
I zoom like Zorro I zap these zonking zebras
My zone's a zoo
How many letters left? Zero
See, Papoose, he slaughtered the alphabet
But it's on life support
See me? I'm an assassin
I finish the job every time
A i'm an anarchist and an
Angry academic activist
Axe and assassinate the alphabet
In an ambulance
Ahki I'm aggy and I'm actually anti arrogant
Artists that ask in American
Accents by accident b
Batter babbling battlers with a
Bag of batteries
Ban these bias blaggers because
They're badly backwards b
Batty bible bashers get badded
Basra to Brackenbury
Baffle backpackers with bars bad as
A big of b
C catty crackheads get cancelled
Canada to Canterbury
Cussing my click catch a
Cavalry crashed into casualty
A cunning culprit that
Covers conversation candidly
Cool calculated cannibal that
Causes carnage casually
D diddy didn't do diddly, dead it
Did it with dignity
You dilly dally and diss from
Distance dig it I disagree
You did it for digit's
Dickhead dummy I do it differently
I define deliberately diligent delivery
E
Coz everything is everything it's evidence
My essence is every element
Effortlessly edit your enterprise
With eloquence
Elevate with the energy of Eminem
Every entity that's ever been a
Enemy I'm ending them
F the fact is I fracture
Factors to fragments fantastically
Fibbers fabricate fallacies and find fantasy
I flip faithless fellas from fakers
To flippin fans of me
Flippantly famish and finish
These fanatics factually g
Give gangsters gangrene and
Gain green gradually
Grapple and gatecrash your gathering with
A gang of Gs
Gallivanting geezers get guided to the galaxy
Or gallows for gambling with
A generals geniality
H i'll happily hack hackers that happen to
Have a hack at me
Like Hatton I'm habitually hazardous how
It has to be
Hospitalise haters from Holland
Holloway or Hackney hate hagglers and I hang
'em with a handkerchief
I illustrious illustrator
Illest in the industry
Illicitly cause illiterate idiots injury
Impatient cause Illuminati impede
My innovations
While ignorant imbeciles idolise
My imitations
J
I jack a jackal for his jacket and just jam
Got jittery jockeys jabbering
Jamaica to Japan
Got jealous junkie jokers jabbing
January-to-January
My journal is a journey just
Don't jinx my jiggy jamboree
K i'm the key, the king, the Kaiser
Reminding my kin of karma i'm a kangaroo
Keep in your kennel you curb koala
Kidnapping kleptomaniacs since kindergarten
Killer kitties will give their kidney for a
Kit kat or a kipper l
I'm a lyricist's lyricist
Livid with little listeners
Listen, I'm loving living cause
Life is literally limited
My live lyrics lift lyricism levels luckily
Til I leave the labyrinth of
London and live in luxury
M meanwhile my motives to motivate and
Mobilise my monster men
My missions to minimise misdemeanours
Mere monuments of these midgets make
Me milli for minutes i may be a mad Mongrel
And a manic Mesopotamian maniac
N no my narratives
Not for narcoleptic narcissists
Naive native nitwit's natter
Negative nastiness
Numerous naughty nymphos niggle up
To my navel, no
I neglect the negligee and navigate to Naples
O when I operate
Obsolete opposition get obliterated
Often obese officers ogle as their occupation
Obviously offing other obstacles
Is my obligation
Originality over Oscar ovations
P it's Poisonous Poets, poised at the pulpit
Pulverise poachers and pointless posers
With potently poignant poems
We practically panic paparazzi
Passive passengers just planning to pack P's
And prang patchy pampering pansies
Q quality over quantity
Qualify quantum physics
I question quarrelly quacks and
I quickly quadruple quizzes
A quarter get queasy and query
With queer quotes though
These quirky quibblers get
Crippled like Quasimodo
R righteous revolution ragamuffin
Repping reality really rebelling
Recruiting ready regiments rapidly
Remorseless renegade
Riddims and records ripping radio
Rapping rattlers really rally rating my ratio
S i separately severed several stupid
Students for steppin
And still slewing sacrilegious super
Sadists in seconds
Speak to Styz and savagely
Smack up studio sessions
Suave swingers spitting sickest
Similes in seven
T topped the talent and tenacious
Tendencies of Tyson tipped as a terrifying
Terrorist tackling titans
Tokyo to Tennessee, taxing timid tourists
Through turbulent times I tangle
With total torment
U understand I'm unbelievable
That's an understatement
Uglifier, giving ultimatums to undertakers
Unanimous, undisputed, unfuckwithable
Unforgiving to ugglesome uncles
They're unoriginal
V verbally violent and victims
Validate my visions
Vaporising, vanish various vigilant villains
Vividly victorious over a variety of vixens
Venomous viper vanquishes vampires
With vengeance
W these wobbling wackos are just waiting
To work for wages
My words are weapons willing to wage
War on you wimpy wasters
X i see through you xenophobic x-men
With a x ray
Ex out Xmas with a x rated sex tape
Y these yuppies are yapping
I'm yawning, yearning for yesterday
Years when youngers played with yo yo's
Not yet with yé
Z i'm as zealous as Zeppelin and
Zappa in my zones
I zoom like Zorro I zap these zonking zebras
My zone's a zoo
How many letters left? Zero
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Alphabet Assassin Lyrics as written by Logic Kyza
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