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.
[Chorus]
I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
[Verse]
Yeah,
My truth is the ark of the covenant buried in Ethiopia
Watch who you fucking with a Minneapolis Somalian
When I go home the world I used to know is gone
And now I live on my own for which shall it profit
A rapper with creative control
To sign a deal with the devil and lose his soul
My stillborn first expression is cold like the faces of slave masters
On the paper I fold subliminal racial supremacy
Choking me quick, like the bedtime stories of joseph smith
Lynch mob gunning for me trying to murda my seed
So shorty put him in the nile in a basket of reeds
So now I stare into the future with a spiritual flash light
Wondering who the fuck was me in a past life
Bad diet, fuck more, die young, fast life same as crash flight
That took off, when the music died on your last night
Tell em the truth, and they call you a traitor
Talk to em honestly, and they call you a hater
Losing my composure, cause the message is urgent
Talking reckless drunk on the mic, like larry merchant
Cursing at the serpent Sumerian demons
Who brush their wings against the air that I'm breathing
A heathen with nothing left to believe in even a reason for living
That was forgiven by God and not religion
Envision Jesus risen from the dead like horus
In a baptist church shaking off the rigamortis
The borders should be illegal instead of the people
That were here before the bible and all of it's sequels
I speak to the detached and unrealistic
That were born normal but turned socially autistic
We resisted homeland securities mission
Because I know what they really envision
[Chorus x2]
I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
[Verse]
Yeah,
My truth is the ark of the covenant buried in Ethiopia
Watch who you fucking with a Minneapolis Somalian
When I go home the world I used to know is gone
And now I live on my own for which shall it profit
A rapper with creative control
To sign a deal with the devil and lose his soul
My stillborn first expression is cold like the faces of slave masters
On the paper I fold subliminal racial supremacy
Choking me quick, like the bedtime stories of joseph smith
Lynch mob gunning for me trying to murda my seed
So shorty put him in the nile in a basket of reeds
So now I stare into the future with a spiritual flash light
Wondering who the fuck was me in a past life
Bad diet, fuck more, die young, fast life same as crash flight
That took off, when the music died on your last night
Tell em the truth, and they call you a traitor
Talk to em honestly, and they call you a hater
Losing my composure, cause the message is urgent
Talking reckless drunk on the mic, like larry merchant
Cursing at the serpent Sumerian demons
Who brush their wings against the air that I'm breathing
A heathen with nothing left to believe in even a reason for living
That was forgiven by God and not religion
Envision Jesus risen from the dead like horus
In a baptist church shaking off the rigamortis
The borders should be illegal instead of the people
That were here before the bible and all of it's sequels
I speak to the detached and unrealistic
That were born normal but turned socially autistic
We resisted homeland securities mission
Because I know what they really envision
[Chorus x2]
I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
Lyrics submitted by euph0ric
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