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.
Thrust the candle to the dark of your disease
Burn the fish plate execute ill memories
Labyrinth of sympathy in which I'm lost and can't leave
And too much truth overshadows the lime lies
And what lies beneath the clouds is an
Altered perception and I'll pay for sanity
But sanity don't come cheap
You don't know the truth and I love your life
Flinch against the fire but this ain't winter
And I'm all by myself the way I want to be
Where I'm content to be to be all by myself
But frozen eyes are bound to melt.
Burn the fish plate execute ill memories
Labyrinth of sympathy in which I'm lost and can't leave
And too much truth overshadows the lime lies
And what lies beneath the clouds is an
Altered perception and I'll pay for sanity
But sanity don't come cheap
You don't know the truth and I love your life
Flinch against the fire but this ain't winter
And I'm all by myself the way I want to be
Where I'm content to be to be all by myself
But frozen eyes are bound to melt.
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This song seems to be rather miserable, despite what most people get from the title. "...and I'll pay for sanity but sanity don't come cheap" means he'd give anything to be happy, to be normal, but he feels it's something he'll never have, or something he'll have to work harder than anyone else to have. "You don't know the truth/and I love your life," seems to me, that Johns is saying that he is jealous of people who never see the bad aspects of life, never notice the harsh truth of things, and he wishes he had their ignorance because it's better than living in the bitterness of reality, he's telling them to love their lives because they're better than his own.
i forget where i read it, it could have been on chairpage, but daniel had said he wrote this song about therapy and he was sitting talking to his psychologist thinking about how so many fans say the songs have helped them through shit and he thought that not everyone is as fortunate as he is to be able to afford a good psychologist. and that's where this song came from.. not a direct quote, but you get the idea.
Yeh this song is an awesome song....ppl confuse this song as a luv song. But i agree with WastedYouth but i think it talks bout how ppl have their own problems and how it affects them. In this way we all think that sumone elses life is better than ours- "..and u dont know the truth and i luv ur life...."
i agree with all ya points and this song has a great meaning about life, its sad, but i love it. it make me think about wasted lives...no matter what dont let people get to you, just tell em to fuck off and move on
This song is by far an awesome song. I love how Daniel can just make everything so much clearer to me. silverchair is my source of medicine, and they mean the world to me. I'm listening to "luv your life" right now, and it's just so groovie. GET BETTER, DANIEL JOHNS!
gayest song ever written by them they are getting crappier and crappier each song what happened to the angry shitheads who wrote freak yer thats right disappeared into popular music talking about freakin crap sorry for the people who like this song i hate people who diss what i like but really their old stuff was better
lol i think it's sad that some people don't mature along with a band's music. i like this song a lot. i almost forgot how amazing daniel's voice is. this is definitely their best cd so far.
you know what, screw off "hippypippypunkska" first of all, your screen name is nothing but a huge label for our over oppressed society..so go drown in 1 foot of water... if you liked silverchair's older stuff..then you must like their newer stuff.. you cannot just diss the maturity of their music.. just because their style of music has changed over the years..that is what makes bands so beautiful.. so don't screw over silverchair just because you cannot appreciate their uniqueness...thank you, that is all. × i × am × silverchair's × number × one × fan ×
I just saw the video for this song. It's pretty cool, sorta like "yellow submarine" type animation, only with better graphics. I really enjoyed this song, and hippypippypunkska sounds like a troller to me. But then again, everyone's entitled to their opinion. I would have to agree on the whole with what's been said above. It isn't a typical love song...
if you liked silverchair's older stuff..then you must like their newer stuff.... haha.