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.
And as the summer turns its head
Cowering to the ground
At night the winds abate to chase
Tomorrow to be found
A whisper of such tenderness
Peels through the skies of gray
The voice of one who holds the better way
Hey...
All we are, all we are, this is all we are
Just a page, just a life, reaching from afar
Take a breathe, close your eyes
You'll see what you are
When you look inside your mind
Take a step, take a chance, take it where you will
Ask the light for a dance, moving standing still
Reaching out for his hand
Blowing daffodils like a million stars in the sky
And you're dancing with eternal glory
Taking a step to another land
You are dancing with eternal glory
This is much more than time and chance
When the giver of life is asking you to dance
What can we in ourselves really ever know
Just a blink in the life's swooning ebb and flow
But there's a way
There's a side, you will come to know
When you go outside our time
And you're dancing with eternal glory
Taking a step to another land
You're dancing with eternal glory
This is much more than time and chance
When the giver of life is asking you to dance
And you're dancing with eternal glory
Taking a step to another land
And you're dancing with eternal glory
Don't be afraid come and take his hand
And you're dancing with eternal glory
Taking that step to another land
And you are dancing with eternal glory
There's a reason you're here, this is not by chance
When the giver of life
Is asking you to DANCE!
A man can feel his spirit in the sky
Like a window open wide
Like the sunlit valley floor
A man can sense when all the storms are gone
And he's back where he belongs
Walking through an open door
We're on a trip in a foreign land
Reach for home, where the kingdom stands
There is the key he has given you, search it out
All who seek will find the truth
After all the storm will pass you by
There is in the heart of the whirlwind
One who has been for all time
And he was sent to deliver
Bring forth the river of life
And we are here in the wilderness
Seeking some shelter inside
And now that it's done
Out of the whirlwind
Comes forth the true breath of life
And from the whirlwind comes the breath of life...
Cowering to the ground
At night the winds abate to chase
Tomorrow to be found
A whisper of such tenderness
Peels through the skies of gray
The voice of one who holds the better way
Hey...
All we are, all we are, this is all we are
Just a page, just a life, reaching from afar
Take a breathe, close your eyes
You'll see what you are
When you look inside your mind
Take a step, take a chance, take it where you will
Ask the light for a dance, moving standing still
Reaching out for his hand
Blowing daffodils like a million stars in the sky
And you're dancing with eternal glory
Taking a step to another land
You are dancing with eternal glory
This is much more than time and chance
When the giver of life is asking you to dance
What can we in ourselves really ever know
Just a blink in the life's swooning ebb and flow
But there's a way
There's a side, you will come to know
When you go outside our time
And you're dancing with eternal glory
Taking a step to another land
You're dancing with eternal glory
This is much more than time and chance
When the giver of life is asking you to dance
And you're dancing with eternal glory
Taking a step to another land
And you're dancing with eternal glory
Don't be afraid come and take his hand
And you're dancing with eternal glory
Taking that step to another land
And you are dancing with eternal glory
There's a reason you're here, this is not by chance
When the giver of life
Is asking you to DANCE!
A man can feel his spirit in the sky
Like a window open wide
Like the sunlit valley floor
A man can sense when all the storms are gone
And he's back where he belongs
Walking through an open door
We're on a trip in a foreign land
Reach for home, where the kingdom stands
There is the key he has given you, search it out
All who seek will find the truth
After all the storm will pass you by
There is in the heart of the whirlwind
One who has been for all time
And he was sent to deliver
Bring forth the river of life
And we are here in the wilderness
Seeking some shelter inside
And now that it's done
Out of the whirlwind
Comes forth the true breath of life
And from the whirlwind comes the breath of life...
Lyrics submitted by The Letter M
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