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.
As I journey to my darkest depths of my mind
and my soul to escape my Earthly woe, I descend to my depths.
To live on is to bask in pain. Misery is thy mortality.
I find myself amidst Labyrinthes of Depression.
I wander the endless hallways, bewildered by my thought.
In the darkness of the labyrinthe, I am one with my inner self.
With memories of pain and misanthropy, I long for these walls to be my grave.
I embrace my shadowside in the darkness of this realm... with a razor to my wrist.
But there is a light, Mighty Lucifer, The light that is within Darkness.
Guided by thee I embrace my eternity of pain to live through my life in depression,
I find the deepest of thy self. I wander the halls of this labyrinthe
of pain searching no longer for light. The only way out is to die!
I walk the Shadowed Path Clouded by storms of Anguish,
the Earth is my damnation and rains upon thy fields of sorrow.
But birthed in the root of Darkness, thy wisdom shall sprout
the tree of true knowledge.
and my soul to escape my Earthly woe, I descend to my depths.
To live on is to bask in pain. Misery is thy mortality.
I find myself amidst Labyrinthes of Depression.
I wander the endless hallways, bewildered by my thought.
In the darkness of the labyrinthe, I am one with my inner self.
With memories of pain and misanthropy, I long for these walls to be my grave.
I embrace my shadowside in the darkness of this realm... with a razor to my wrist.
But there is a light, Mighty Lucifer, The light that is within Darkness.
Guided by thee I embrace my eternity of pain to live through my life in depression,
I find the deepest of thy self. I wander the halls of this labyrinthe
of pain searching no longer for light. The only way out is to die!
I walk the Shadowed Path Clouded by storms of Anguish,
the Earth is my damnation and rains upon thy fields of sorrow.
But birthed in the root of Darkness, thy wisdom shall sprout
the tree of true knowledge.
Lyrics submitted by ruben
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