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.
Pinch history
Feel the pinch blistering
Pinch me in my dreams
'Cause I'm still not listening
X marks the spot
On your calendar days
A beard half eaten
Smiled
Crawling with legs
Temper tempered temperature
Manuscript replica
In infrared is how we saw
The night that lit up
Scarecrow plots
The nerve that pinches
Crippled hobbled
Frolicked flat on its own face
Jigsaw pattern
Dominoes left a trail
The whites of their eyes
Polaroids of the tale
For our amusement
We bring stares to the defendants
Mechanical panaceas
Absolved by history
Phonetic paralysis
Inflicted through morality
The seed that it nurtured
Was a wilted bouquet
Temper tempered temperature
Squirming through cuts in a throat
Cut it, cut it
Feel the pinch blistering
Pinch me in my dreams
'Cause I'm still not listening
X marks the spot
On your calendar days
A beard half eaten
Smiled
Crawling with legs
Temper tempered temperature
Manuscript replica
In infrared is how we saw
The night that lit up
Scarecrow plots
The nerve that pinches
Crippled hobbled
Frolicked flat on its own face
Jigsaw pattern
Dominoes left a trail
The whites of their eyes
Polaroids of the tale
For our amusement
We bring stares to the defendants
Mechanical panaceas
Absolved by history
Phonetic paralysis
Inflicted through morality
The seed that it nurtured
Was a wilted bouquet
Temper tempered temperature
Squirming through cuts in a throat
Cut it, cut it
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A Roladex has a bunch of cards in it. Similar to a toolbox but the tools would be people you look through and find the right one that suits your purpose. Propaganda.
The first verse is about someone trying to "wake up" the singer.
Pinch History = Look at the past Look at what has happened in the past, compare it to the present, can't you see the connection? Wake up and see through the bullshit. A Beard Half Eaten = The singers reply: I don't believe you, if that is true I'll eat my Beard(hat is the more common expression)
Manuscript replica: Manuscript "A book, document, or other composition written by hand" If it is a handwritten replica then if no one is paying attention the person who is writing can add or change things as he writes.
/ in infrared is how we saw / We could see clearly everything that was going on / the night that lit up / scarecrow plots / A scarecrow keeps out birds. In this birds = people and the fields are the secrets being protected or misdeeds being done.
Last verse: I see two interpretations The conspirators are caught and put on trial, the details of the conspiracy fall into place in a convoluted way like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
Initially I saw the trial being a success and the defendants being labeled as the wilted bouquet, saying that the seed of morality, their values as youth, became corrupted in their idealistic pursuit of them and they chose to do anything to achieve their goals.
I think the other interpretation is more likely now that I think of it though.
mechanical panaceas / absolved by history / The defendants recite the old saying "For the greater good" and use their molested and modified history to justify their actions.
/ phonetic paralysis / inflicted through morality / the seed that it nurtured / was a wilted bouquet The people hearing the defendants lose their will to speak due to their agreement with the morality of the defendants. The seed of population (nurtured by the people in power who fed them lies) was a wilted bouquet.
I think I am pretty close to understanding. Actually looking a third time I'm pretty sure this song is about clowns...
forgot to add to manuscript replica that it is reference to history