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.
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo)
Let me take your hand
I'm shaking like milk
Turning
Turning blue
All over the windows and the floors
Fires outside in the sky
Look as perfect as cats
The two of us
Together again
But it's just the same
A stupid game
But I don't care if you don't
And I don't feel if you don't
And I don't want it if you don't
And I won't say it
If you won't say it first
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo)
You think you're tired now
But wait until three
Laughing at the Christmas lights
You remember from December
All of this then back again
Another girl
Another name
Stay alive but stay the same
It's just the same
A stupid game
But I don't care if you don't
And I don't feel if you don't
And I don't want it if you don't
And I won't play it
If you don't play it first
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo)
You can't even see now
So you ask me the way
You wonder if it's real
Because it couldn't be rain
Through the right doorway
And into the white room
It used to be the dust that would lay here
When I came here alone
But I don't care if you don't
And I don't feel if you don't
And I don't want it if you don't
And I won't play it
If you don't play it first (oh, ho, ho, ho, ho)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
Let's go to bed
Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho
Let's go to bed
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo)
Let me take your hand
I'm shaking like milk
Turning
Turning blue
All over the windows and the floors
Fires outside in the sky
Look as perfect as cats
The two of us
Together again
But it's just the same
A stupid game
But I don't care if you don't
And I don't feel if you don't
And I don't want it if you don't
And I won't say it
If you won't say it first
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo)
You think you're tired now
But wait until three
Laughing at the Christmas lights
You remember from December
All of this then back again
Another girl
Another name
Stay alive but stay the same
It's just the same
A stupid game
But I don't care if you don't
And I don't feel if you don't
And I don't want it if you don't
And I won't play it
If you don't play it first
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo)
You can't even see now
So you ask me the way
You wonder if it's real
Because it couldn't be rain
Through the right doorway
And into the white room
It used to be the dust that would lay here
When I came here alone
But I don't care if you don't
And I don't feel if you don't
And I don't want it if you don't
And I won't play it
If you don't play it first (oh, ho, ho, ho, ho)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
Let's go to bed
Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho
Let's go to bed
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo, doo)
(Doo, doo, doo)
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Let's Go to Bed Lyrics as written by Laurence Andrew Tolhurst Robert James Smith
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