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.
In a traffic jam with sweaty hands/
The kids we hype up just to drop/
These few pretty faces in ugly places/
The small towns where we would never stop/
Shitty scenes and tired schemes/
All this art it makes me sick/
And I always wrote better than I spoke/
You couldn't even read my lips/
Home is where the heart is/
Mine is scattered by miles and time/
On this slow suicide with a pack of smokes and cheap bottle of wine/
Passing trends and passing friends/
Magnets floating in a metal sea/
In a world of ghosts all overdosed/
Placebo pills at the pharmacy/
Arguments and your two sense/
All this talk it makes me sick/
And I always wrote better than I spoke/
You couldn't even read my lips/
In this empty room/
I will live with my mistakes/
Hold this straw untill it's gold/
It will or I will break/
The kids we hype up just to drop/
These few pretty faces in ugly places/
The small towns where we would never stop/
Shitty scenes and tired schemes/
All this art it makes me sick/
And I always wrote better than I spoke/
You couldn't even read my lips/
Home is where the heart is/
Mine is scattered by miles and time/
On this slow suicide with a pack of smokes and cheap bottle of wine/
Passing trends and passing friends/
Magnets floating in a metal sea/
In a world of ghosts all overdosed/
Placebo pills at the pharmacy/
Arguments and your two sense/
All this talk it makes me sick/
And I always wrote better than I spoke/
You couldn't even read my lips/
In this empty room/
I will live with my mistakes/
Hold this straw untill it's gold/
It will or I will break/
Lyrics submitted by aafafi
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like "i wrote this one night when i was just about to go to class, i got to school early and i saw these people doing....." ect.
that stuff to me, is awesome. to see his connection, and compare it to mine.
anyway, after listening to this cd constantly after it came out, ive come to the conclusion, that this song is about mass media influence on weak, or uneducated people.
to me, it seems as if hes mad that when he drives around, he sees all these kids who are so engrossed in wearing their hurley shirts, and having the sun glasses on, or riding in ghetto cars sportin' fubu, and he knows its all a marketed image, and the makers of the products they wear dont give a damn about the kids.
the "few pretty faces, in ugly places, small towns where you would never stop"
that continues on with the same thing i was talking about because its very easy for someone like britany spears to perform at a city outside of a larger city, to draw the crowd of kids who are either, completely isolated from a large city, thereby not having gained any experiance to the "tired schemes" that marketers put out, and/or are so dependent on image, that if its strippe from them, they feel they have no place in the world.
he talks about how pointless trends are, magents floating in a metal sea. once the magnets float past another magent, or trend, the metal attaches onto that. destroying all originality and motivation for anyone to strive to be better.
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