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.
Yeah! Yeah!
Every single day when I get out of bed
Well the chances are I'm gonna wind up dead
Well, don't you know that it'll be alright?
Well what I don't know about is bottoming out
On an obsession putting me up on a mountainside
Up high, yeah that's right
Look down I see, all the distance around
Staring back at me, wondering why
What I see makes it hard to believe
Birds-eye-view of terrain open wide!
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote and try
Don't you want to believe?
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life, no boundaries
Now taking a chance, what a better way?
At least you tried, that's more than a lot can say
Thinking will only take you so far
Freedom unbinding, binding your feet again
What a better time to get up and on?
An environment to conquer and carve
No boundaries, what a maze of trees
With an opening so deep inside
No sketchin' on a session
You wanted a world of progression
And we're just trying to make it out alive!
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote and try
Don't you want to believe?
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life, no boundaries!
No way to con?ne!
Here on this day
Don't turn away
Fed up with just saying I might
Now out on a limb
There's no giving in
And I'm not gonna take it this time
Well here upon this day
I won't turn away
I'm fed up with just saying I might
Now out on a limb
There's no giving in
And we're not gonna take it this time
Out there in the clear!
Wrapped around by a blistering degree
I'm on top of the world and serene
Wide awake, wide awake, are we?
Are we?
Now what in the hell, what am I supposed to do?
Just turn around and regret it
Or press on and make it through?
See life is a lesson, one big fucking session
And it's right there in front of you
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote and try
Don't you want to believe?
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life, no boundaries!
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life
Don't you want to believe?
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life, no boundaries!
Every single day when I get out of bed
Well the chances are I'm gonna wind up dead
Well, don't you know that it'll be alright?
Well what I don't know about is bottoming out
On an obsession putting me up on a mountainside
Up high, yeah that's right
Look down I see, all the distance around
Staring back at me, wondering why
What I see makes it hard to believe
Birds-eye-view of terrain open wide!
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote and try
Don't you want to believe?
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life, no boundaries
Now taking a chance, what a better way?
At least you tried, that's more than a lot can say
Thinking will only take you so far
Freedom unbinding, binding your feet again
What a better time to get up and on?
An environment to conquer and carve
No boundaries, what a maze of trees
With an opening so deep inside
No sketchin' on a session
You wanted a world of progression
And we're just trying to make it out alive!
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote and try
Don't you want to believe?
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life, no boundaries!
No way to con?ne!
Here on this day
Don't turn away
Fed up with just saying I might
Now out on a limb
There's no giving in
And I'm not gonna take it this time
Well here upon this day
I won't turn away
I'm fed up with just saying I might
Now out on a limb
There's no giving in
And we're not gonna take it this time
Out there in the clear!
Wrapped around by a blistering degree
I'm on top of the world and serene
Wide awake, wide awake, are we?
Are we?
Now what in the hell, what am I supposed to do?
Just turn around and regret it
Or press on and make it through?
See life is a lesson, one big fucking session
And it's right there in front of you
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote and try
Don't you want to believe?
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life, no boundaries!
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life
Don't you want to believe?
Go! Go to the sky!
Devote your life, no boundaries!
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