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.
throw the tent in the river. & the typewriter too. the waters are high, the time is nigh, the text will tell the truth: first, last, only.... alone. 49531 583 6713. (new moon: im not saying that im a good person in your eyes. envious moon: im not saying that i feel right in your green light.) you left me a love note in my copy of Kidd. thank you. i love you. youre welcome. im sorry. good bye.
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I thought German phone number at first, but just had another thought. Maybe it corresponds to notes in the song, with 1 being the root note and the other numbers being other positions in the scales used. Can't quite tell by hearing and will have to chart out and play the notes to verify, but seems to ascend and descend in tone properly.
Anybody else think this sounds like the final chorus? I took the phone numbers and translated them into the corresponding dial tone. Timing is off of course, but seems to follow the meoldy, which would confirm it to be a phone number, cleverly encoded into the music tones itself.<br /> <br /> dialabc.com/i/cache/dtmfgen/wavpcm8.300/495315836713.wav
Anybody else think this sounds like the final chorus? I took the phone numbers and translated them into the corresponding dial tone. Timing is off of course, but seems to follow the meoldy, which would confirm it to be a phone number, cleverly encoded into the music tones itself.<br /> <br /> dialabc.com/i/cache/dtmfgen/wavpcm8.300/495315836713.wav