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.
At first flash of Eden
We race down to the sea
Standing there on freedom's shore
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Can you feel it
Now that spring has come
And it's time to live in the
Scattered sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting for you to
Come along
Waiting for you to
Hear my song
Waiting for you to
Come along
Waiting for you to tell me what went wrong
This is the strangest
Life I've ever
Known
Can't you feel it
Now that spring has come
That it's
Time to live in the
Scattered sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for
The sun
We race down to the sea
Standing there on freedom's shore
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Can you feel it
Now that spring has come
And it's time to live in the
Scattered sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting for you to
Come along
Waiting for you to
Hear my song
Waiting for you to
Come along
Waiting for you to tell me what went wrong
This is the strangest
Life I've ever
Known
Can't you feel it
Now that spring has come
That it's
Time to live in the
Scattered sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for
The sun
Lyrics submitted by yuri_sucupira
Waiting For The Sun Lyrics as written by John Paul Densmore Jim Morrison
Lyrics © Doors Music Company
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Th ething about Morrison is that he reveled in the image of the Romantic madman. Dionysus in the latter half of the 20th C.
This si liely about nothing more focused than feeling young and alive and vital (and virile) but always there's that underlying current of one's mortality.
Fairly happy, positive song, for a Doors' song, until you come to:
Waiting for you to Come along.
Waiting for you to Hear my song.
Waiting for you to Come along. Waiting for you to Tell me what went wrong.
This is the strangest life I've ever known.
Right when this part starts, the music changes radically and has a definite undertone of threat, like the mask is slipping, and what's underneath is really pretty scary.
Yeah.