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.
Corner curt mindless
Morally is bankrupt
Here fitting nicely
Staying as it once was
A blissful sensation
The head tripping cave in
To feel the head shaken
Begin to collapse in
The wiretap feast of dreams
Where taken lightly
Clouded as light serene
Flame throwing tarot
All in a line descends
An instant receiving
Was better untreated
All problems lying low
Just under the skin's glow
The scarring convergence screams
With serious sides affecting
A serious inability to cease the faction
A long door closing in the face react
Toward a lonely lesson offering retraction
A memory hanging on now hung by the neck
It's overly twisted
Rape and remains of waste
In devious flavors
Direct in defiling shame
When playing with fire
And burnt out desire
A kettle of blackness
Already fell into
A pit of our own device
A serious disability devout the system
A sharp wedge dripping through the back up ahead
Toward one vicious world wide assumption
A forced upon dictatorship the future's dead
A blissful sensation
The head tripping cave in
To feel the head shaken
Begin to collapse in
The wiretap feast of dreams
An instant receiving
Was better untreated
All problems lying low
Just under the skin's glow
The scarring convergence screams
With serious sides affecting
Morally is bankrupt
Here fitting nicely
Staying as it once was
A blissful sensation
The head tripping cave in
To feel the head shaken
Begin to collapse in
The wiretap feast of dreams
Where taken lightly
Clouded as light serene
Flame throwing tarot
All in a line descends
An instant receiving
Was better untreated
All problems lying low
Just under the skin's glow
The scarring convergence screams
With serious sides affecting
A serious inability to cease the faction
A long door closing in the face react
Toward a lonely lesson offering retraction
A memory hanging on now hung by the neck
It's overly twisted
Rape and remains of waste
In devious flavors
Direct in defiling shame
When playing with fire
And burnt out desire
A kettle of blackness
Already fell into
A pit of our own device
A serious disability devout the system
A sharp wedge dripping through the back up ahead
Toward one vicious world wide assumption
A forced upon dictatorship the future's dead
A blissful sensation
The head tripping cave in
To feel the head shaken
Begin to collapse in
The wiretap feast of dreams
An instant receiving
Was better untreated
All problems lying low
Just under the skin's glow
The scarring convergence screams
With serious sides affecting
Lyrics submitted by jt
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