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.
Kids, it’s hard to comprehend them
Everybody knows it’s true
Kids, we’ll never understand them
No matter what we do
Take the kids around here
For instance, if you will
They drive around looking for people to kill
Not even for the money
But rather for the thrill
Oh, kids, they can be a handful
Kids, with their pants around their hipbones
Who wears their pants like that?
Come here kids, let me hitch up your britches
And while we’re at it, let’s fix that hair
So your school is a joke, and you’ll always be poor
And your pleas to the rich have been heard and ignored
Is that what all you crazy kids are so upset for?
Come on now, there’s still fun things to do here
For instance, we could go down to the park and
Pick up all the garbage that’s layin’ around
Or maybe, we could work a bunch of skits up
And perform them for the people in town
You know this life is such a joy for so many of us
We can’t take too much of your push come to shove us
What we need all you kids to do is buckle down and love us
Come on kids, buckle down and love us
Everybody knows it’s true
Kids, we’ll never understand them
No matter what we do
Take the kids around here
For instance, if you will
They drive around looking for people to kill
Not even for the money
But rather for the thrill
Oh, kids, they can be a handful
Kids, with their pants around their hipbones
Who wears their pants like that?
Come here kids, let me hitch up your britches
And while we’re at it, let’s fix that hair
So your school is a joke, and you’ll always be poor
And your pleas to the rich have been heard and ignored
Is that what all you crazy kids are so upset for?
Come on now, there’s still fun things to do here
For instance, we could go down to the park and
Pick up all the garbage that’s layin’ around
Or maybe, we could work a bunch of skits up
And perform them for the people in town
You know this life is such a joy for so many of us
We can’t take too much of your push come to shove us
What we need all you kids to do is buckle down and love us
Come on kids, buckle down and love us
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Precious Little Miracles Lyrics as written by Todd Daniel Snider
Lyrics © Wixen Music Publishing
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
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