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.
Losing a whole year
Losing a whole year
I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamned day in bed
Losing a whole year
Hiding in your room we'd lay like dogs
And the phone would ring like a joke that's left unsaid
Losing a whole year
Rich daddy left you with a parachute
Your voice sounds like money and your face is cute
But your daddy left you with no love
You touch everything with a velvet glove and
Now you want to try your life of sin
You want to be down with the down and in
Always copping my truths
I kind of get the feeling like I'm being used
And now I realize that you never heard
One goddamned word I ever said
Losing a whole year
Losing a whole year
I took your stuff and put it in the basement
When I found out what the smile on your face meant
I seen you pop that check
Craning your neck at my car wreck
And it always seems the juice used to flow
In the car, in the kitchen, you were good to go
Now we're stuck with the tube
A sink full of dishes and some aqua lube
And I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamn day in bed
Hey, bye
Losing a whole year
If it's not the defense then you're on the attack
When you start talking I hear the Prozac
Convinced you found your place
With the pierced queer teens in cyber space
When you were yourself there was tasted sweet
Sours into a routine deceit
Well this drama is a bore
And I don't want to play no more
Whoa why, whoa why
Losing a whole year
I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamn day in bed
Hey, bye
Hey, bye
Losing a whole year
I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamned day in bed
Losing a whole year
Hiding in your room we'd lay like dogs
And the phone would ring like a joke that's left unsaid
Losing a whole year
Rich daddy left you with a parachute
Your voice sounds like money and your face is cute
But your daddy left you with no love
You touch everything with a velvet glove and
Now you want to try your life of sin
You want to be down with the down and in
Always copping my truths
I kind of get the feeling like I'm being used
And now I realize that you never heard
One goddamned word I ever said
Losing a whole year
Losing a whole year
I took your stuff and put it in the basement
When I found out what the smile on your face meant
I seen you pop that check
Craning your neck at my car wreck
And it always seems the juice used to flow
In the car, in the kitchen, you were good to go
Now we're stuck with the tube
A sink full of dishes and some aqua lube
And I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamn day in bed
Hey, bye
Losing a whole year
If it's not the defense then you're on the attack
When you start talking I hear the Prozac
Convinced you found your place
With the pierced queer teens in cyber space
When you were yourself there was tasted sweet
Sours into a routine deceit
Well this drama is a bore
And I don't want to play no more
Whoa why, whoa why
Losing a whole year
I remember you and me used to spend
The whole goddamn day in bed
Hey, bye
Hey, bye
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I haven't read the Great Gatsby or whatever, so I dunno about THAT meaning. But I think it's about this couple who don't have sex anymore and they've wasted a whole year.
"it always seems the juices used to flow in the car, in the kitchen, you were good to go but now we're stuck with the tube"
'Tube' I think, referring to a dildo.
"Tube" means bong
"Tube" referes to Lube--as in LUBRICATION. Her juices no longer flow, she no longer gets wet, ready for sex. So, they have to use a tube of lube to help her.
"Tube" referes to Lube--as in LUBRICATION. Her juices no longer flow, she no longer gets wet, ready for sex. So, they have to use a tube of lube to help her.
"Tube" most certainly does not refer to lube.. "Aqualube" is the lube and he wouldn't have said "lube" twice. "Tube" is slang for TV and I think that's what it means here. TV and dirty dishes are the unsexy realities you deal with when the passion is gone from the relationship.