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.
Man in the front got a sinister grin careen down highway 666
We want to go crush the slow as the pitchfork bends the needles grow
My arms are wheels my legs are wheels my blood is pavement
We're gonna ride to the abbey of thelema to the abbey of thelema
blood is pavement
The grill in the front is my sinister grin bugs in my teeth make me
sick sick sick
The objects may be larger than they appear in the mirror
When you ride you're ridden, when you ride you're ridden
I am fueled with the filth and fury, Do what I will, I will hurry there
We want to go crush the slow as the pitchfork bends the needles grow
My arms are wheels my legs are wheels my blood is pavement
We're gonna ride to the abbey of thelema to the abbey of thelema
blood is pavement
The grill in the front is my sinister grin bugs in my teeth make me
sick sick sick
The objects may be larger than they appear in the mirror
When you ride you're ridden, when you ride you're ridden
I am fueled with the filth and fury, Do what I will, I will hurry there
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The silence at hte end of the track isn't really silence. If you turn up your volume up all the way you hear ringing. then it's answered and you hear a clip form a movie who's name i can't recall at the moment
@alfrin his horn went beep beep beep?
that's the creepiest part ever to me lol. marilyn manson was awesome. marilyn manson + trent reznor was even better.
Many levels to this song. First the title..it is a play of Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Machine where the gang rode in. The Abbey of Thelema was Aleister Crowley's legendary academy of the magickal arts, where people partipated in drug orgies and debauchery. This song is another song about Social Darwinism (as is alot of Manson's songs) about how the weak get crushed by the strong. The "strong" in this song is the car and he is crushing the slow or "weak" It's about standing up for yourself and not letting any weakminded people get in your way. "Do what thou will shall be the whole of the law..."
I've listened to this song for some time. <br /> <br /> Just now caught the Aleister crowley reference. <br /> <br /> Good show chap.
I don't know if it has any relevance, but I have some rarity cd thing with a live performance of this song. Before it, a voice(presumably Marilyn's, but it doesn't really sound like him) says:
On our way over here, we were driving in our van, and we saw a girl on the side of the road. So we pulled over, cause she was hitchhiking, and I told her, "Didn't your mom ever tell you not to hitchhike?". She said "No." Then I leaned in real close to her and I grabbed her hair, and whispered in her ear, "This won't hurt a bit"
The "Go home to your mother" rant at the end is from the film Desperate Living, directed by John Water.
The Phone message is an actual recording from an angry parent that had called the then-in-effect Marilyn Manson Family Intervention Hotline phone number.
@marquicerise I know that
@marquicerise I know that
@marquicerise go home to your mother! doesn't she ever want you? tell her this isn't some communist day care center. tell your mother i hate her! tell your mother I! hate! you! haha. sounds like a great flick.
Awesome song. I'm such a huge fan of this album, easily one of the most uinderrated albums ever. Everyone thinks this album sucks because it's so rough, but that's what makes it so good. It's so undeniably raw, you have no choice but to ROWYCO!!!!
it is necessary that you know the "go home to your mother" rant is from Desperate Living.
The end of the song (after the 5/6 minutes of silence) remember me of once when a friend's mom called my mother because of the "pornography" I was sending to him, she sounded almost like that.
his horn went beep beep beep!
Oops. Ignore annoying double post? no edit. His horn went beep beep beep = The platters song beep beep i don't know if that's sampled from the song, but it's lyrics from the song.
The end of the song is left out. The part where some mother is yelling at a child, and then when a phone is ringing for a really long time until some mother leaves a message about how she will call authorities if they send her son any more pornography.