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.
I take a breath and breathe it out/
Life has been a bitch holding onto me, I'm always freaking out/
I don't play well with others, I panic in the crowd, and I'm quick to fall in love that's why I'm always on the ground/
So pick it up, pop the umbrella over my problems and understand I'll never be a man until I solve them/
And sometimes I wish that I could go back home, yeah crawl into my childhood dreams and be alone/
And that would be everything - just another boy left with nothing /
An object of security slowly losing its stuffing/
The Sumter Square slum king, looking for another motherfucking chance to re-break the broken in is something/
And that's the part I'm never going to get, growing up is more than just a mind state and owning all your debts/
Blowing out the breath I don't feel so tall, so tell me how am I supposed to reach anything, anything at all/
Anything at all/
Tell me how, Can I grow to see the change in my life, I wanted, to overcome the battle inside, what is owed to anxiety's hold is there a better way to figure it out?/
I sweep it all under the rug/
Cover up the loss found inside of me and wash it down with blood/
I was born with an option and taught to swim a flood/
But the older I become I start to humor giving up/
So pick it up, listen to all of the words in my head, and understand I'll have a shaky hand until they're said/
And I don't know if I can get my mind-state back, but I would travel to the end just to feel that grasp/
And that would be everything, speak it through the can on the line, and prophesize the future from the twinkle in my eye/
I could wrinkle up and die in the room where the dreams started talking to me constantly and dancing through the sky/
I'm alive, but growing up has proved to be a task, and left a couple daydreams broken down and smashed/
Looking through the glass I don't feel so tall/
So tell me how am I supposed to reach anything, anything at all/
Anything at all
Tell me how, Can I grow to see the change in my life, I wanted, to overcome the battle inside, what is owed to anxiety's hold is there a better way to figure it out?
Life has been a bitch holding onto me, I'm always freaking out/
I don't play well with others, I panic in the crowd, and I'm quick to fall in love that's why I'm always on the ground/
So pick it up, pop the umbrella over my problems and understand I'll never be a man until I solve them/
And sometimes I wish that I could go back home, yeah crawl into my childhood dreams and be alone/
And that would be everything - just another boy left with nothing /
An object of security slowly losing its stuffing/
The Sumter Square slum king, looking for another motherfucking chance to re-break the broken in is something/
And that's the part I'm never going to get, growing up is more than just a mind state and owning all your debts/
Blowing out the breath I don't feel so tall, so tell me how am I supposed to reach anything, anything at all/
Anything at all/
Tell me how, Can I grow to see the change in my life, I wanted, to overcome the battle inside, what is owed to anxiety's hold is there a better way to figure it out?/
I sweep it all under the rug/
Cover up the loss found inside of me and wash it down with blood/
I was born with an option and taught to swim a flood/
But the older I become I start to humor giving up/
So pick it up, listen to all of the words in my head, and understand I'll have a shaky hand until they're said/
And I don't know if I can get my mind-state back, but I would travel to the end just to feel that grasp/
And that would be everything, speak it through the can on the line, and prophesize the future from the twinkle in my eye/
I could wrinkle up and die in the room where the dreams started talking to me constantly and dancing through the sky/
I'm alive, but growing up has proved to be a task, and left a couple daydreams broken down and smashed/
Looking through the glass I don't feel so tall/
So tell me how am I supposed to reach anything, anything at all/
Anything at all
Tell me how, Can I grow to see the change in my life, I wanted, to overcome the battle inside, what is owed to anxiety's hold is there a better way to figure it out?
Lyrics submitted by Mainsteve66
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