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.
Kick me down is all I hear nowadays
Break me off you can say it in a thousand ways
Give me this, give me that as if you feel angry
Lyin' to kick it just to smoke up all my weed
Drinkin' my brew and gettin' drunker than me
Tell me what is it that you wantin from me
Ain't nothin' free I had to work to get what's comin' to me
Open your eyes and realize this is somethin' to see
Kick down is what they talk 'bout today
Your in my arena but you don't want to play
It's how you move and not what you say
When the cats away the mice will play
'Cause I'm remembering the days when I didn't have nothin'
Livin' in the ghetto east side I'll tell you something
From the life I've lived and what I've seen
Nothing from nothing means nothing
So you better have somethin'
If you want to kick down from me
So let's move to the side and make this discrete
Take a look at my numbers to see if they meet
Up with your stylin' to fill up your streets
I don't who you are but I guess you know me
Stop thinking you can come up so easily
Kick me down is all I hear now a days
Break me off you can say it in a thousand ways
Give me this, give me that as if you feel angry
Lyin' to kick it just to smoke up all my weed
Drinkin' my brew and gettin' drunker than me
Tell me what is it that you wantin' from me
Ain't nothin' free I had to work to get what's comin' to me
Open your eyes and realize that this is somethin' to see
What is it that you beggin' me for
I've got it all but now you can't have it
I've learned from what I've earned
And established my status as a job to manage
And to my advantage I will stand ground
Shake your hand like the ????? man around
And your town kickin' you down for a minute
But everything your life have consequences
Beginning only to end it
As if it was intended
But you still have to take to the streets and represent it
For each one to step off a street and represent it
So you can sleep for each consecutive second
That's independent from each hour
I speak as if I was the only source of power
Keeper of keeper thought with knowledge in my conscious tower
I read the fate like characters in fictitious novels
And yet between the lines I find more follow
A most hollow way of life to model
For our street investin' stress in a bottle
Nah your better off wishin' a lotto
Kick me down is all I hear nowadays
Break me off you can say it in a thousand ways
Give me this, give me that as if you feel angry
Lyin' to kick it just to smoke up all my weed
Drinkin' my brew and gettin' drunker than me
Tell me what is it that you wantin' from me
Ain't nothin' free I had to work to get what's comin' to me
Open your eyes and realize that this is somethin' to see
Hey ?????. Ha Ha, what's up Op ain't seen you in a while chile.
Hey man you fuckin' livin' large huh, comin' up huh you like it,
Servin' the purpose and shit. Gold card and everything.
Right Right. Kick me down. Huh, I'm gonna tell you like this
Bro.
Kick me down is all I'm hearing from you
Come on man break me off save me some
As if there's some for you
I need this, give me that
As if you need some help feed your self, yous the only one that needs yourself
I need a drink to get me drunker than the forty thieves
Tell me why is it that you frontin' on my fortune please
Speak your peace or forever hold your own
I need a loan, I need a car to get on
Naw dawg you better off fetchin' for your own bone to throw
Come on I'm in the streets I'm all alone
But if you seek then you shall find your shine ain't gone
So can I get a kick down
Naw
You wrong
Kick me down is all I hear now a days
Break me off you can say it in a thousand ways
Give me this, give me that as if you feel angry
Lyin' to kick it just to smoke up all my weed
Drinkin' my brew and gettin' drunker than me
Tell me what is it that you wantin' from me
Ain't nothin' free I had to work to get what's comin' to me
Open your eyes and realize that this is somethin' to see
Break me off you can say it in a thousand ways
Give me this, give me that as if you feel angry
Lyin' to kick it just to smoke up all my weed
Drinkin' my brew and gettin' drunker than me
Tell me what is it that you wantin from me
Ain't nothin' free I had to work to get what's comin' to me
Open your eyes and realize this is somethin' to see
Kick down is what they talk 'bout today
Your in my arena but you don't want to play
It's how you move and not what you say
When the cats away the mice will play
'Cause I'm remembering the days when I didn't have nothin'
Livin' in the ghetto east side I'll tell you something
From the life I've lived and what I've seen
Nothing from nothing means nothing
So you better have somethin'
If you want to kick down from me
So let's move to the side and make this discrete
Take a look at my numbers to see if they meet
Up with your stylin' to fill up your streets
I don't who you are but I guess you know me
Stop thinking you can come up so easily
Kick me down is all I hear now a days
Break me off you can say it in a thousand ways
Give me this, give me that as if you feel angry
Lyin' to kick it just to smoke up all my weed
Drinkin' my brew and gettin' drunker than me
Tell me what is it that you wantin' from me
Ain't nothin' free I had to work to get what's comin' to me
Open your eyes and realize that this is somethin' to see
What is it that you beggin' me for
I've got it all but now you can't have it
I've learned from what I've earned
And established my status as a job to manage
And to my advantage I will stand ground
Shake your hand like the ????? man around
And your town kickin' you down for a minute
But everything your life have consequences
Beginning only to end it
As if it was intended
But you still have to take to the streets and represent it
For each one to step off a street and represent it
So you can sleep for each consecutive second
That's independent from each hour
I speak as if I was the only source of power
Keeper of keeper thought with knowledge in my conscious tower
I read the fate like characters in fictitious novels
And yet between the lines I find more follow
A most hollow way of life to model
For our street investin' stress in a bottle
Nah your better off wishin' a lotto
Kick me down is all I hear nowadays
Break me off you can say it in a thousand ways
Give me this, give me that as if you feel angry
Lyin' to kick it just to smoke up all my weed
Drinkin' my brew and gettin' drunker than me
Tell me what is it that you wantin' from me
Ain't nothin' free I had to work to get what's comin' to me
Open your eyes and realize that this is somethin' to see
Hey ?????. Ha Ha, what's up Op ain't seen you in a while chile.
Hey man you fuckin' livin' large huh, comin' up huh you like it,
Servin' the purpose and shit. Gold card and everything.
Right Right. Kick me down. Huh, I'm gonna tell you like this
Bro.
Kick me down is all I'm hearing from you
Come on man break me off save me some
As if there's some for you
I need this, give me that
As if you need some help feed your self, yous the only one that needs yourself
I need a drink to get me drunker than the forty thieves
Tell me why is it that you frontin' on my fortune please
Speak your peace or forever hold your own
I need a loan, I need a car to get on
Naw dawg you better off fetchin' for your own bone to throw
Come on I'm in the streets I'm all alone
But if you seek then you shall find your shine ain't gone
So can I get a kick down
Naw
You wrong
Kick me down is all I hear now a days
Break me off you can say it in a thousand ways
Give me this, give me that as if you feel angry
Lyin' to kick it just to smoke up all my weed
Drinkin' my brew and gettin' drunker than me
Tell me what is it that you wantin' from me
Ain't nothin' free I had to work to get what's comin' to me
Open your eyes and realize that this is somethin' to see
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
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???????? = "realest" (and this song's crazy)