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.
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What are you kidding? This is one of the best Eagles lyrics of all time. It describes the Narcissistic American freeloader. Our society has become full of professional victims. "A victim of this, a victim of that" People who get into a car wreck and sue for the legal equivalent of the lottery. Whiny wimps that don't take responsibility for themselves and expect the government to take care of them.
Yea takers of society, get over it and stop asking for free stuff.
The irony is that Henley is a big time liberal supporting the Democratic party at every turn. The same party that wants to provide freebees for everyone and extend benefits into the socialist category. The democratic party wants to keep people dependent on them. Exactly what this song is against.
I love this song. I would comment on it, but it's pretty self-explanatory.
@stoolhardy True!
I'm a big fan of the Eagles, but I think this song is just terrible. It's not only my least favorite Eagles song but one of my least favorite in general.
This is one of the eagles relatively recent songs that is telling everyone that they need to chill, stop bi*ching, stop sueing eachother over stupid stuff, and just get over it, it is their way of saying that we are getting too pessimistic in our culture and that we need to switch directions.
@pgtall aaYep, and this should become the temporary national anthem, especially now that stuff is sort of getting back to normal after Covid!
I'm really surprised more people don't know this... "Old Billy" is Shakespeare (William = Bill = Billy) and the lawyer line is from Henry VI, Part 2. The line is:
CADE: ...There shall be no money. All shall eat and drink on my score, and I will apparel them all in one livery that they may agree like brothers and worship me, their lord. DICK THE BUTCHER: The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
In other words, Cade is proclaiming what his perfect society will be like, and Dick effectively adds, "and we'll kill all the lawyers, too!"
This song is so different from other Eagles songs, so you either love it or hate it, I think.
:idea: Here's what this is about - the Eagles are sick of everyone whining about everything that's gone wrong in their lives and telling them to... GET OVER IT!! The title is pretty self-explainatory.
It is obvious what this song is about. Anyway it is a great song, especially the Hell Freezes Over version.
"We were so sick of tabloid television- and this was eight years ago! I was so sick of professional victims everywhere you looked, all over the media....." -Glenn Frey
I think that pretty much sums it up, really.
Anyone know who "Billy" refers to in this song?
@nemt William Shakespeare. "Let's kill all the lawyers," is a line from his play "Henry VI."
nemt--I wasn't sure either, so I googled it. He's referring to William Shakespeare, from a line in Henry VI about "removing lawyers so nefarious actions could proceed" or something.