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.
Floating right by me in a velvet dress
She seems so totally out of place in outer space
I must be delusional, a real head case
'Cause the lunar surface is the wrong address in such a dress
But I saw her eyes
She was real
Was she wearing that dress just for me?
And I'm all inside out now
There is a space in my heart
An infinite casing of darkness
There is a space in my heart
Waiting to be filled by her
I've surfed on comets through cosmic debris
And still here I am a lost at the Sea of Tranquility
I've got no chance to get home, the only place for me
Is inside this helmet that I'm living in, breathing in
But her eyes
They were real
Did she skyrocket out here just for me?
And it's all inside out now
There is a space in my heart
An infinite casing of darkness
There is a space in my heart
Waiting to be filled by her
Dark matter clustered in a phoenix ray
Implosions on a galactic scale ...yeah
There is a space in my heart
An infinite casing of darkness
An empty old space in my heart
I see her face in the stars
In supernovas and pulsars
There is a space in my heart
I can't get out of it
(I can't get, I... can't... get)
I can't get out of it
(I can't get, I... can't... get)
I can't get out of it
(I can't get, I... can't... get)
I can't get out of it
(I can't get, I... can't... get)
(I can't get, I... can't... get)
I can't get out of it
(I can't get, I... can't... get)
I can't get out of it
(I can't get, I... can't... get)
I can't get out of it
(I can't get, I... can't... get)
She seems so totally out of place in outer space
I must be delusional, a real head case
'Cause the lunar surface is the wrong address in such a dress
But I saw her eyes
She was real
Was she wearing that dress just for me?
And I'm all inside out now
There is a space in my heart
An infinite casing of darkness
There is a space in my heart
Waiting to be filled by her
I've surfed on comets through cosmic debris
And still here I am a lost at the Sea of Tranquility
I've got no chance to get home, the only place for me
Is inside this helmet that I'm living in, breathing in
But her eyes
They were real
Did she skyrocket out here just for me?
And it's all inside out now
There is a space in my heart
An infinite casing of darkness
There is a space in my heart
Waiting to be filled by her
Dark matter clustered in a phoenix ray
Implosions on a galactic scale ...yeah
There is a space in my heart
An infinite casing of darkness
An empty old space in my heart
I see her face in the stars
In supernovas and pulsars
There is a space in my heart
I can't get out of it
(I can't get, I... can't... get)
I can't get out of it
(I can't get, I... can't... get)
I can't get out of it
(I can't get, I... can't... get)
I can't get out of it
(I can't get, I... can't... get)
(I can't get, I... can't... get)
I can't get out of it
(I can't get, I... can't... get)
I can't get out of it
(I can't get, I... can't... get)
I can't get out of it
(I can't get, I... can't... get)
Lyrics submitted by Gramofonen, edited by Efreeti
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Floating right by me in a velvet dress She seems so totally out of the place in outer space
Thanks for commenting. I don't know how i missed it.
In a middle of a break up I started listening to my CDs of Jarle Bernhoft and this song reminded me of my first love, and how I myself felt that time. It was impossible for me to understand that a girl this perfect would like a guy like me. In this relationship i was the one doing the breaking up, and it also made me understand what the woman I'm breaking up with might have felt once, and the dreams for the future I might have taken away from her.
I like to think the lyrics are almost literal, written through the perspective of an astronaut that for being for so long in outer space, starts allucinating about a girl in a velvet dress and then falls in love with her. The chorus for example is a metaphor that mixes the idea of a real astronaut in outer space and his feelings, comparing them to elements of the universe.