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.
Overwhelmed
Overrun
Oversaturated
Overpopulated
Imagine the earth as a corpse
That committed adultery
Sustenance for its lifeforms
But turned its back on humanity
A giant flood of homo sapiens
Of every race and creed
Upon the surface - billions of ovum
By the gallons - germinate the seed
Germinate. Cultivate. Ejaculate.
Populate. Much too late. Suffocate.
Testosteronal tidal wave disperses the estrogen
As billions of sperm cells come alive on your skin
Slithering
Squirming
Exfoliating
Uprooting bacteria still alive in the pores
Embedded memories
Humans masturbating
...to no end!
Cover the world
Continue to duplicate
Multiplay and integrate
And eventually dominate
Whilst everything disintegrates
Gradually decimated
We only pretend to play dead
We come alive
We see what we want
We take it and leave
Bio-pirates on a sea of disease
Beat them, spay them, kill them
They have no right to go on
-punishment in ejaculate, humiliation immaculate
bleed them, heat them, eat them
excrete them, delete them
whatever you please, destroy it and leave
To no end [x3]
Procreation infinitus
Hope and future diminishes
To no end [x3]
Bastards and brainstems and reproduction
A butter knife away from becoming a twat
A giant flood of homo sapiens
Of every race and creed
Upon the surface... billions of ovum
A practiced art of breeding feces
Germinate
Cultivate
Impregnate
Populate
Saturate
Procreate
Dominate
Ejaculate to suffocate
Overwhelming
Overrunning
Oversaturation
Overpopulation
Passive ecological terrorists
Lingering
Lurking
And finally usurping
A slow global suicide just by being alive
We are all rapists and molesters in the end.
Overrun
Oversaturated
Overpopulated
Imagine the earth as a corpse
That committed adultery
Sustenance for its lifeforms
But turned its back on humanity
A giant flood of homo sapiens
Of every race and creed
Upon the surface - billions of ovum
By the gallons - germinate the seed
Germinate. Cultivate. Ejaculate.
Populate. Much too late. Suffocate.
Testosteronal tidal wave disperses the estrogen
As billions of sperm cells come alive on your skin
Slithering
Squirming
Exfoliating
Uprooting bacteria still alive in the pores
Embedded memories
Humans masturbating
...to no end!
Cover the world
Continue to duplicate
Multiplay and integrate
And eventually dominate
Whilst everything disintegrates
Gradually decimated
We only pretend to play dead
We come alive
We see what we want
We take it and leave
Bio-pirates on a sea of disease
Beat them, spay them, kill them
They have no right to go on
-punishment in ejaculate, humiliation immaculate
bleed them, heat them, eat them
excrete them, delete them
whatever you please, destroy it and leave
To no end [x3]
Procreation infinitus
Hope and future diminishes
To no end [x3]
Bastards and brainstems and reproduction
A butter knife away from becoming a twat
A giant flood of homo sapiens
Of every race and creed
Upon the surface... billions of ovum
A practiced art of breeding feces
Germinate
Cultivate
Impregnate
Populate
Saturate
Procreate
Dominate
Ejaculate to suffocate
Overwhelming
Overrunning
Oversaturation
Overpopulation
Passive ecological terrorists
Lingering
Lurking
And finally usurping
A slow global suicide just by being alive
We are all rapists and molesters in the end.
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This is about the over population of earth.
gayest song ever.
yeah right
lol