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.
Forgotten vegetable bodies dip their limbs
In the unconsciousness lake
Feeding the ancient ritual
Whose roots belong to the forth day?
They are not priest celebrating tradition
Nor initiates that lower their head
Venerating a cult
Only mechanical trains of deeds
Meaningless wills taken one by one
But define function by the sum of their wholeness
Sunset silence is slowly fading away
Announcing with vibrations overlapping
A new dawn arriving
Here is the fifth day
An upset and divisible reality
Gushes on water ripples
Radiation heats the textures
And the umpteenth photosynthesis is taking place
Maternal shadow hides and protects
A new symbiosis conception
The earth has been able to reinvent itself
Sharing itself with water and sky
And the muddy puddles swarming with new affronts
To slackness longing for life
Sunset silence is slowly fading away
Announcing with vibrations overlapping
A new dawn
In the unconsciousness lake
Feeding the ancient ritual
Whose roots belong to the forth day?
They are not priest celebrating tradition
Nor initiates that lower their head
Venerating a cult
Only mechanical trains of deeds
Meaningless wills taken one by one
But define function by the sum of their wholeness
Sunset silence is slowly fading away
Announcing with vibrations overlapping
A new dawn arriving
Here is the fifth day
An upset and divisible reality
Gushes on water ripples
Radiation heats the textures
And the umpteenth photosynthesis is taking place
Maternal shadow hides and protects
A new symbiosis conception
The earth has been able to reinvent itself
Sharing itself with water and sky
And the muddy puddles swarming with new affronts
To slackness longing for life
Sunset silence is slowly fading away
Announcing with vibrations overlapping
A new dawn
Lyrics submitted by TheIndestructableD
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