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.
Armour let it through
Borne the arboretic truth you kept posing
Sat down in the suit
Fixed on up, it wasn't you by finished closing
Ramble in the roots
Had the marvel, moved the proof be kneeled fine's glowing
Storing up the clues
It had its sullen blue bruised through by showing
Settle past a patience
Where wishes and your will are spilling pictures
Water's running through
In the valley where we grew to write this this scripture
Never gonna break, never gonna break
Never gonna break, never gonna break
Not for a part in any gamut of the dark
Doubled in the toes
Annex it, it minute closed in the morning
Did not lose it in the stack's stow
I'ma lay that call back on you
You know it won't beseech you
We're laying in an open field
I will let you grow
No need to know this
So carry on, my dear
What is clear up in the daylight is we're hung here
Fall is coming soon
A new year for the moon and the Hmong here
Never gonna break, never gonna break
Never gonna break, never gonna break
All that it seems
Bellows tracing through the streams
Never gonna break, never gonna break
Never gonna break, never gonna break
All at its seams
Swallows swelling for the beams
Borne the arboretic truth you kept posing
Sat down in the suit
Fixed on up, it wasn't you by finished closing
Ramble in the roots
Had the marvel, moved the proof be kneeled fine's glowing
Storing up the clues
It had its sullen blue bruised through by showing
Settle past a patience
Where wishes and your will are spilling pictures
Water's running through
In the valley where we grew to write this this scripture
Never gonna break, never gonna break
Never gonna break, never gonna break
Not for a part in any gamut of the dark
Doubled in the toes
Annex it, it minute closed in the morning
Did not lose it in the stack's stow
I'ma lay that call back on you
You know it won't beseech you
We're laying in an open field
I will let you grow
No need to know this
So carry on, my dear
What is clear up in the daylight is we're hung here
Fall is coming soon
A new year for the moon and the Hmong here
Never gonna break, never gonna break
Never gonna break, never gonna break
All that it seems
Bellows tracing through the streams
Never gonna break, never gonna break
Never gonna break, never gonna break
All at its seams
Swallows swelling for the beams
Lyrics submitted by iquitmyscene, edited by MCalladine, TheMelaphobic, benapere
Minnesota, WI Lyrics as written by Justin Deyarmond Edison Vernon
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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