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.
Can I get close to ya
If only for a while
I don't mean to busy ya
You're the jive guru, and
I want to sing along with you, with you
Your sweetness could cause a rock slide
If only before the summertime
This could be our last goodbye
Please, darling, please don't cry
Ooh, aah.
Ooh, aah.
Ooh, aah.
Ooh, aah.
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If only for a while
I don't mean to busy ya
You're the jive guru, and
I want to sing along with you, with you
Your sweetness could cause a rock slide
If only before the summertime
This could be our last goodbye
Please, darling, please don't cry
Ooh, aah.
Ooh, aah.
Ooh, aah.
Ooh, aah.
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There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
Just A Little Lovin'
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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Plastic Bag
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“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
Such a feel good song, I fucking love it.
What about the bit at the end of the song? Does it have a seperate title or something? "Feeling the same as I did yesterday Feeling the same as I might do tomorrow
Watching my hopes follow dreams down the drain I'm only joking, of course, yet again, as I do
Watching another day turn into night There goes another month, doesn't it frighten you so?"
Actually, that's the start of Pissing in the Wind (strange, eh?). If you get the Live@Glastonbury CD with "Have You Fed The Fish?", you will see that it is actually the start of Pissing in the Wind, but it has one extra verse added:
"Wasted and wilted like waterless trees, we're just the branches without any leaves, we are bare..."
brilliant, reminds me of an amsterdam trip i went on during my year on an art+design foundation course before uni. i was listening to the album on a coach trip to some place, even if i didnt give me memories of that great trip i love this song anyway, altho it gets a bit eerie towards the end, after the female voice talking, when the music is played slowly in a fun-fair sort of style. very spooky!
this is such a cool song. the begining is my favorite part. the other song on it scares me. the lyrics are awesome too. he's amazing.
The start is great. The middle section is disturbing. It makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Especially when the girl with the really flat tone says: "Please Help Me. Im Lost." over and over, but when the tune kicks in again and then the acoustic guitar comes in and its a wonderful moment.
I love this song its incredible and it kills me how few people have actually heard it. I don't think it needs a meaning aside from the 'Can I get close to ya If only for a while'