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.
You've been in back of me (yeah)
Feeling sent to me (yeah)
I'm tired of the word
When my back ain't around here
No more you and me (yeah)
No more listening (yeah)
Tired of your word
All your words are so backwards
Being as lost as can be (yeah)
Touch of purity (yeah)
If you're gonna go now
Well I wanna go with you
Oh yeah, you're a fucked up man
With a fucked up plan
With a fucked up plan
With a fucked up plan
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Did I say too much?
You didn't want me to hear
Did I say too much?
I didn't want me to see here
Did I hate too much?
I'm not sure I should leave here
Did I hate too much?
I'm thinking someone should bleed here
Why the finger? it's all right
Me and you could, it's all right
Straighten me out, it's all right
Guiding light, it's all right
There you go, it's all right
Wait up and turn me in, it's all right
Help you out man, it's all right
Help me in, I just might
Feeling sent to me (yeah)
I'm tired of the word
When my back ain't around here
No more you and me (yeah)
No more listening (yeah)
Tired of your word
All your words are so backwards
Being as lost as can be (yeah)
Touch of purity (yeah)
If you're gonna go now
Well I wanna go with you
Oh yeah, you're a fucked up man
With a fucked up plan
With a fucked up plan
With a fucked up plan
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Did I say too much?
You didn't want me to hear
Did I say too much?
I didn't want me to see here
Did I hate too much?
I'm not sure I should leave here
Did I hate too much?
I'm thinking someone should bleed here
Why the finger? it's all right
Me and you could, it's all right
Straighten me out, it's all right
Guiding light, it's all right
There you go, it's all right
Wait up and turn me in, it's all right
Help you out man, it's all right
Help me in, I just might
Add your thoughts
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.
Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!
More Featured Meanings
Light Up The Sky
Van Halen
Van Halen
The Night We Met
Lord Huron
Lord Huron
This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Dreamwalker
Silent Planet
Silent Planet
I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Punchline
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.
Page
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
I could listen to this song forever...and the song at the end is awesome too...
kyuss and qotsa love that lil song stuff like at the end of song for the deaf.. the hahahahaha song and lick doo by kyuss....it must be a josh homme thing :)