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.
That mans somethin', somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Wasn't a black prophet wasn't in it for the profit
Had a talk with Charlie Brown, he was like "yo man get off it"
It's a business
The record companies are quick to end the fantasy
Your trapped in and he tapped in my frequency
Now I'm frequently going
Over such and such ends that such and such owes
It's later for the fly girls and hoes
'Cause in this capitalistic society money is all
Fuck continuing college, I was too small to play ball
So I grabbed the mic device never thought about it twice
If you think this is a game nigga you better think twice
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Now time is just a faze and
Life is just a riddle like
If you build a twinkie there's
A man in the middle with a
Chick on the side that's along
For the fun so I see
Her as a stallion and I
Ride everyone, ban together
If your in the same level
Most of us are free based
On bring rebels fightin' causes
Against the devil in the
Heart of round meadows either
Verbally or with these stilettos
Eyes cold as dark parks or
Steel metal the world is never
Settle 'cause it rotates like
Ho cakes under glass, it's all
About ya future yet it's all
About ya past like how many
Faces did ya mold in ya mask
Before your free at last
I ask, to be or not
People like ta see ya rot and die
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I'm the "F" the "A" the "T" the "L" the "I" the "P"
And everything I say be either fat or fly
You best believe I put in time to conceive
Deep concentration from sunrise to eve
And even in my sleep sometimes rhymes formulate
Free form, lyrical storms falling from a cloudy brain
In my dream like state
Then I awake to make these silly saps collapse
As I dilapidated the wack
When it comes to rhymes I'm kind of like a mack
I got these flows strollin' up and down the track
So the dough I stack up in piles and piles
For my lyrical creation travel miles and miles
To reach my destination been through so many trials
And many tribulations
But I do this shit, I do this shit, I do this shit
For the people of my nation
So I need to kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Wasn't a black prophet wasn't in it for the profit
Had a talk with Charlie Brown, he was like "yo man get off it"
It's a business
The record companies are quick to end the fantasy
Your trapped in and he tapped in my frequency
Now I'm frequently going
Over such and such ends that such and such owes
It's later for the fly girls and hoes
'Cause in this capitalistic society money is all
Fuck continuing college, I was too small to play ball
So I grabbed the mic device never thought about it twice
If you think this is a game nigga you better think twice
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Now time is just a faze and
Life is just a riddle like
If you build a twinkie there's
A man in the middle with a
Chick on the side that's along
For the fun so I see
Her as a stallion and I
Ride everyone, ban together
If your in the same level
Most of us are free based
On bring rebels fightin' causes
Against the devil in the
Heart of round meadows either
Verbally or with these stilettos
Eyes cold as dark parks or
Steel metal the world is never
Settle 'cause it rotates like
Ho cakes under glass, it's all
About ya future yet it's all
About ya past like how many
Faces did ya mold in ya mask
Before your free at last
I ask, to be or not
People like ta see ya rot and die
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I'm the "F" the "A" the "T" the "L" the "I" the "P"
And everything I say be either fat or fly
You best believe I put in time to conceive
Deep concentration from sunrise to eve
And even in my sleep sometimes rhymes formulate
Free form, lyrical storms falling from a cloudy brain
In my dream like state
Then I awake to make these silly saps collapse
As I dilapidated the wack
When it comes to rhymes I'm kind of like a mack
I got these flows strollin' up and down the track
So the dough I stack up in piles and piles
For my lyrical creation travel miles and miles
To reach my destination been through so many trials
And many tribulations
But I do this shit, I do this shit, I do this shit
For the people of my nation
So I need to kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
I gotta kick somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
Somethin' that means somethin'
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Somethin' That Means Somethin' Lyrics as written by Emandu Imani Rashaan Wilcox Derrick Lemel Stewart
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