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.
As I look round this make shift moving house
I'm searching for whatever's left of me
It's on the ground in a box that reads lost and found
It's lost and found
She said, just let it go
She said, it's all you've ever known
And I'm, I'm already gone
I'm already something to someone that I don't know
When will I know?
And I'm, I'm out making rounds
On every side of town
That I've been through, that I know
To find my reason to come back home
I've worked it out you'll always bring me down
From here on out I'm doing things for me
I'm impatient now I'm not the type for life alone,
I need someone
She said, just let it go
She said, it's all you've ever know
And I'm, I'm already gone
I'm already something to someone that I don't know
When will I know?
And I'm, I'm out making rounds
On every side of town
That I've been through, that I know
To find my reason to come back home
With everything that sets me back,
I push back harder to clear the way
There's not a thing that I regret,
Can't live my life in yesterday
With everything that sets me back,
I push back harder to clear the way
There's not a thing that I regret,
Can't live my life in yesterday
Life in yesterday
And I'm, I'm already gone
I'm already something to someone that I don't know
When will I know?
And I'm, I'm out making rounds
On every side of town
That I've been through, that I know
To find my reason to come back home
I'm searching for whatever's left of me
It's on the ground in a box that reads lost and found
It's lost and found
She said, just let it go
She said, it's all you've ever known
And I'm, I'm already gone
I'm already something to someone that I don't know
When will I know?
And I'm, I'm out making rounds
On every side of town
That I've been through, that I know
To find my reason to come back home
I've worked it out you'll always bring me down
From here on out I'm doing things for me
I'm impatient now I'm not the type for life alone,
I need someone
She said, just let it go
She said, it's all you've ever know
And I'm, I'm already gone
I'm already something to someone that I don't know
When will I know?
And I'm, I'm out making rounds
On every side of town
That I've been through, that I know
To find my reason to come back home
With everything that sets me back,
I push back harder to clear the way
There's not a thing that I regret,
Can't live my life in yesterday
With everything that sets me back,
I push back harder to clear the way
There's not a thing that I regret,
Can't live my life in yesterday
Life in yesterday
And I'm, I'm already gone
I'm already something to someone that I don't know
When will I know?
And I'm, I'm out making rounds
On every side of town
That I've been through, that I know
To find my reason to come back home
Lyrics submitted by SatB34x, edited by murica, emmiemergencix
I'm Already Gone Lyrics as written by Jeremy Wade Mckinnon Andrew Wade
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Alright feel free to correct me if you believe that i am wrong but what i think this song is talking about is maybe a relationship that went down in the wrong way and they may have split ways and now that the woman is getting on her feet she wants to come back or he wants to get back together and the opposite partner is saying " i can
t , I
ve already moved on " this saying the part where the song says " Im already something to someone that i don
t know" and it may be apologizing for the relationship that went down so horribly but he wants to not leave her alone. That he still cares a lot.I can see a few ways this can be seen as a love song, but that tone just doesn't seem that way. I hear a guy dying to begin the search for his identity. Knowing that he has to do that and not let others, whoever she is (mother?), define who he is. <br /> <br /> I feel the person (he or she, most likely he; I'll use he from here on out) is alone right now for whatever reason (recent break up, etc.). But the song isn't entirely about getting back together with whoever she is, it's more about moving on, learning, and growing. <br /> <br /> At the beginning, he's looking for him, whatever is left of it anyways. In a sense, he's lost what he is, he doesn't know himself. So he's picking and choosing what's left of him (so he can move on).<br /> <br /> "Just let it go...", "It's all you've ever known...". What he knows may have very well been defined by the people in his past, some authoritative figure, most likely a parent (as he's making rounds all around town, but it's familiar, he knows it as opposed to not knowing it). He has to let go of them and move on for himself. <br /> <br /> It's hurt him in the past "I've worked it out, you'll always bring me down." At this point, I'm assuming she is a mother (possibly). I don't see her as a girlfriend (past or present). His life up to now has been for her, it seems implied with the next line "from here on out, I'm doing things for me". He wants to find himself, it's a common theme to the song. The first notion of love does come in at this verse, which is that he knows he won't, he can't, live alone. But he also states that he has to do him first, he has to find himself first.<br /> <br /> We know that he's gone through hardships with the second to last verse that is repeated twice; it begins "with everything that sets me back, I push harder to clear the way" We know that he's gone through a tough time or two, but he doesn't regret anything he does, rather, he wants to learn and grow from it. He can't stay stuck there ("can't live my life in yesterday"), but he can't forget it either.<br /> <br /> Now the chorus does have the notion of love in it, but it's a future love. It shows that he knows love is in his future, but that's not what he's looking for. He knows there is a faceless person for him, and that will come in the future, but not now. He's looking for a reason to come back home, most likely after he is finished finding himself, his identity. <br /> <br /> Basically, he, whoever he is, has reached that part of life where you split from who made you who you are and are chasing after your own identity. He needs to know who he is, and it seems like he's going to put his love life on hold, in a way, let it come to him.