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.
Doesn't anybody feel
That all these killers should be killed
And all these healers should be healed
So all these beggers can be filled
Now tell me why am I to lie
If I'm holding firm and feel the right
to lie down beside this dog of mine
And let that perverted though really run through my mind
I'd scrape my toes across the floor
This day's the same as those before
And though inside I'm feeling giddy
Always wrong for never giving myself an uninvaded door
So now I'll take a little glue
I'll put together a new glittered room for you
So I can start sitting so pretty
Instead of sitting here not seein' clear
Just sitting here not fittin' here
No things ain't fittin' here
I'll just lay my head down beside this God of mine
And let that perverted thought burn a hole in my mind
And if I can't lay my head beside this God of mine
Maybe the Hunter's dog called God
Could be my friend in time
That all these killers should be killed
And all these healers should be healed
So all these beggers can be filled
Now tell me why am I to lie
If I'm holding firm and feel the right
to lie down beside this dog of mine
And let that perverted though really run through my mind
I'd scrape my toes across the floor
This day's the same as those before
And though inside I'm feeling giddy
Always wrong for never giving myself an uninvaded door
So now I'll take a little glue
I'll put together a new glittered room for you
So I can start sitting so pretty
Instead of sitting here not seein' clear
Just sitting here not fittin' here
No things ain't fittin' here
I'll just lay my head down beside this God of mine
And let that perverted thought burn a hole in my mind
And if I can't lay my head beside this God of mine
Maybe the Hunter's dog called God
Could be my friend in time
Lyrics submitted by bubbrock316, edited by Junkemail123
Toes Across the Floor Lyrics as written by Terry L. Hunter Aaron Jerome Smith
Lyrics © Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I think the song is about feeling like you're going crazy and loosing your mind. You see in the first stanza what he feels and then you have people telling him that he shouldn't say those things. And when he talks about lying down with dogs, it's like the saying "if you lie with dogs you're gonna get fleas." Then in the third stanza he talks about how he just slugishly going through life and not giving himself space from other people who are telling him he's wrong. Which leads him to make a facade for other people which cause him not be able to see his own thoughts clearly. Then in the last stanza I feel as though he has just given up trying to fight and is letting the thoughts of other people enter his mind. I think this is shown when he talks about the Hunter's dog. The Hunter being Orion and his dog being Sirius. In anciet Greece when the star called Sirius could be seen during the summer they thought that was what made dogs pant instead of the warm weather. This made acient greeks think that dogs went crazy because they where ruled by the star siruis (dog star) giving rise to the phrase "dog days of summer."