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'm here alone
All by myself
With no-one else
I need someone
To share these thoughts
About myself
I don't know who I can trust
This picture's starting to rust
And as I press
Upon myself
A form of torture
I write these words
For someone else
Just like an author
I don't know who I can trust
I don't know who I can trust
Everybody won't you come with me
We'll take a ride across the sea
When we get there if we don't drown
I'll turn your whole life upside down
And later on
With each illegal breath
I take
I lose resistance
For an instant
To my fate
How I'll miss you
When you're gone
Oh yeah
I'm a number
Lower than one
I'm on my own
I think this stuff
Is getting stronger
I'm wide awake
And I can't take
It any longer
How I'll miss you
When you are gone
I'm a number
Lower than one
Everybody won't you come with me
Help me find what I can't see
I'm sick of crawling along the ground
Help me turn my world around
Everybody won't you come with me
Everybody come with me
If I don't find
What I've come for
You won't see me anymore
Sometimes its hard
Just to find
Some piece of mind
It feels like
I am going crazy
Almost all of the time
And if we can't
Live this way
Then what will I do
Like my father and my mother
I'm depending on you
You've got to fight
Just to keep your
Piece of mind
You've got to hold on tight
Don't cross that line
Sometimes I cry like a baby
When I look outside
I'm on a losing streak
Driving through Moss Side
Like the river deep
Or the ocean wide
Like the river deep
Or the ocean wide
Like the river deep
Or the ocean wide
There's a crack in the wall
But I just can't hide
All by myself
With no-one else
I need someone
To share these thoughts
About myself
I don't know who I can trust
This picture's starting to rust
And as I press
Upon myself
A form of torture
I write these words
For someone else
Just like an author
I don't know who I can trust
I don't know who I can trust
Everybody won't you come with me
We'll take a ride across the sea
When we get there if we don't drown
I'll turn your whole life upside down
And later on
With each illegal breath
I take
I lose resistance
For an instant
To my fate
How I'll miss you
When you're gone
Oh yeah
I'm a number
Lower than one
I'm on my own
I think this stuff
Is getting stronger
I'm wide awake
And I can't take
It any longer
How I'll miss you
When you are gone
I'm a number
Lower than one
Everybody won't you come with me
Help me find what I can't see
I'm sick of crawling along the ground
Help me turn my world around
Everybody won't you come with me
Everybody come with me
If I don't find
What I've come for
You won't see me anymore
Sometimes its hard
Just to find
Some piece of mind
It feels like
I am going crazy
Almost all of the time
And if we can't
Live this way
Then what will I do
Like my father and my mother
I'm depending on you
You've got to fight
Just to keep your
Piece of mind
You've got to hold on tight
Don't cross that line
Sometimes I cry like a baby
When I look outside
I'm on a losing streak
Driving through Moss Side
Like the river deep
Or the ocean wide
Like the river deep
Or the ocean wide
Like the river deep
Or the ocean wide
There's a crack in the wall
But I just can't hide
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Haze Alternative Mix Lyrics as written by Johnny Marr Bernard (gb 2) Sumner
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