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.
To explain the madness surreal.
To complain of the sadness involved with knowing you.
To forget the revolting thought of going through
The regreat and the healing that I'd have to do.
Through my eyes the sky is pretty and you
Promise you'll join in the flight.
But I can't deny the gritty thought
That you can't take the high.
You can look at this as one big fall.
Life will be both hell and bliss
Or it can be nothing at all.
So I just ask you now to chose.
Don't you think it's worth it, even if you lose?
How do I begin to speak when actions measure true Feelings?
Though your words do leave me weak your movements Always leave me kneeling.
The true test of time is distance but I am not willing to see.
I won't damage with non sense
What actions show is meant to be.
Through my eyes the sky is pretty and you
Promise you'll join in the flight.
But I can't deny the gritty thought
That you can't take the high.
You can look at this as one big fall.
Life will be both hell and bliss
Or it can be nothing at all.
So I just ask you now to chose.
Don't you think it's worth it, even if you lose?
To complain of the sadness involved with knowing you.
To forget the revolting thought of going through
The regreat and the healing that I'd have to do.
Through my eyes the sky is pretty and you
Promise you'll join in the flight.
But I can't deny the gritty thought
That you can't take the high.
You can look at this as one big fall.
Life will be both hell and bliss
Or it can be nothing at all.
So I just ask you now to chose.
Don't you think it's worth it, even if you lose?
How do I begin to speak when actions measure true Feelings?
Though your words do leave me weak your movements Always leave me kneeling.
The true test of time is distance but I am not willing to see.
I won't damage with non sense
What actions show is meant to be.
Through my eyes the sky is pretty and you
Promise you'll join in the flight.
But I can't deny the gritty thought
That you can't take the high.
You can look at this as one big fall.
Life will be both hell and bliss
Or it can be nothing at all.
So I just ask you now to chose.
Don't you think it's worth it, even if you lose?
Lyrics submitted by Maliejandra
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im not too sure what this song means, but the first time i heard it, i almost cried. its a beautiful song none the less.
Well, since I am very into Roswell, this song reminds me of it. When it speaks of 'the healing I'd have to do' I see it as living without that show guiding me and being dependant on it. Basically though, 'you can look at this as one big fall' says to me that you can consider all the trouble of campaigning for Roswell not worth it or you can look back adn never have campaigned and then have no seasons. I think it's worth it, even if eventually, we all lose.
I'm not really good at this stuff, but maybe the meaning is that relationships can be rocky, there's good times and bad times, but you need to decide if you want to take the chance. There may be so much craziness and saddness in knowing each other already, but what they have seems to be good. Though she wouldn't put it thru a test like a havin a long distance relationship or going on vacation b/c shes afraid that it wouldn't work out. Basically that seems to be it. I may be totally wrong here.
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this song has nothing to do with roswell.
Its about a boy who uses her as a object to reflect his own self worth. madness=distorts everything, things people are mocking or attacking his self worth, dosnt understand what its like to contain human empathy. He's completely fucked her up, and now she feels dull and deadend in relations with normal humans. "Don't you think it's worth it, even if you lose?" He craves power and can only love how someone makes him feel about himself. He will never think its worth it if he looses.
The only way it could be is if she dos a good job of manupulting him and cutting him off from what he wants.
could she get and desent actions out of him. And that song is not gunna work on him.