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.
Living in the Kingdom of Death
Living in the Kingdom of Death
Dead to the Kingdom of Life
Living in the Kingdom of Death
Waking in the Kingdom of dreams
Waking in the Kingdom of dreams
Dreaming the Kingdom of the awake
Waking in the Kindom of Dreams
Living in the Kingdom of Death
Living in the Kingdom of Death
Dead to the kingdom of life
Living in the Kingdom of Death
My love these living rags i wear
My love these living rags i wear
My belover the daughter of the sea and the air
The reflecting sea beneath the invisible air
The conjunction of everything with everywhere
Living in the kingdom of death
Living in the kindom of death
Dead to the kingdom of life
Living in the kingdom of death
Lucifer, the child bright of the christ
Lucifer the child bright of the christ
Lord christ, illuminate the reaper's womb
For Lucifer, the child bright of the christ
Living in the kindom of death
Living in the kindom of death
Dead to the kindom of life
Living in the kindom of death
See the devil in the christ, if this is the true price that you seek
It abides in you and it abides in me
we abide in us and then we flee
see the devil in the christ, if this is the true price that you seek
Living in the kindom of death
Living in the kingdom of death
Dead to the kindom of life
Living in the kindom of death
In a medow deep in a medow green
Upon a throne of sound beneath the willow shade
Blood like beating, the germ of the embryo
It will never explain or describe what it will ever know
Living in the Kingdom of Death
Living in the Kingdom of Death
Dead to the kingdom of life
a mirror as broad as your life is long
a mirror as broad as your life is long
your reflection an echo of an ancient song
in a mirror as broad as your life is long
living in the kindom of death
living in the kinbgdom of death
dead tro the kingdom of life
living int the kindom of death
Living in the Kingdom of Death
Dead to the Kingdom of Life
Living in the Kingdom of Death
Waking in the Kingdom of dreams
Waking in the Kingdom of dreams
Dreaming the Kingdom of the awake
Waking in the Kindom of Dreams
Living in the Kingdom of Death
Living in the Kingdom of Death
Dead to the kingdom of life
Living in the Kingdom of Death
My love these living rags i wear
My love these living rags i wear
My belover the daughter of the sea and the air
The reflecting sea beneath the invisible air
The conjunction of everything with everywhere
Living in the kingdom of death
Living in the kindom of death
Dead to the kingdom of life
Living in the kingdom of death
Lucifer, the child bright of the christ
Lucifer the child bright of the christ
Lord christ, illuminate the reaper's womb
For Lucifer, the child bright of the christ
Living in the kindom of death
Living in the kindom of death
Dead to the kindom of life
Living in the kindom of death
See the devil in the christ, if this is the true price that you seek
It abides in you and it abides in me
we abide in us and then we flee
see the devil in the christ, if this is the true price that you seek
Living in the kindom of death
Living in the kingdom of death
Dead to the kindom of life
Living in the kindom of death
In a medow deep in a medow green
Upon a throne of sound beneath the willow shade
Blood like beating, the germ of the embryo
It will never explain or describe what it will ever know
Living in the Kingdom of Death
Living in the Kingdom of Death
Dead to the kingdom of life
a mirror as broad as your life is long
a mirror as broad as your life is long
your reflection an echo of an ancient song
in a mirror as broad as your life is long
living in the kindom of death
living in the kinbgdom of death
dead tro the kingdom of life
living int the kindom of death
Lyrics submitted by erwtas
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