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.
Oh my love oh my love
I can't hear you my love
tell me where have you gone
oh my love oh my love
I can't taste you my love
tell me what have I done?
Plug it in now
So I can digest you
I will taste you
Far away far away
I can't feel you today
I need healing my love
Appetite running fast, following my gut
Turning up every rock
You're disappearing my love
I need louder that this
Please fill me up
Good tidings I bring to you and your sin
I'll forgive
Come to me plug it in
So I can digest you
I will taste you
My appetite in that whole
tempt you with it now
I will taste you
Please shake me and tug
I need shaking my love
Can't you be the one
I can't fake it my love
I need filling come on
I need it louder than bombs
Come to me plug it in
So I can digest you
I will taste you
My appetite in that whole
tempt you with it now
I will taste you
If you remember my love
Going up from above
Are you listening love?
Throw your tears away
This tempting
Game from my gut
I will taste you
I will taste you (I've got a big mouth)
I've got a big mouth
I will taste you
I've got a big mouth I will taste you
I will taste you
Oh my love oh my love
I can't hear you my love
Tell em where have you gone
Far away far away
I can't feel you today
I need healing, love Oh my love
Oh my love
Oh my love
I can't hear you my love
tell me where have you gone
oh my love oh my love
I can't taste you my love
tell me what have I done?
Plug it in now
So I can digest you
I will taste you
Far away far away
I can't feel you today
I need healing my love
Appetite running fast, following my gut
Turning up every rock
You're disappearing my love
I need louder that this
Please fill me up
Good tidings I bring to you and your sin
I'll forgive
Come to me plug it in
So I can digest you
I will taste you
My appetite in that whole
tempt you with it now
I will taste you
Please shake me and tug
I need shaking my love
Can't you be the one
I can't fake it my love
I need filling come on
I need it louder than bombs
Come to me plug it in
So I can digest you
I will taste you
My appetite in that whole
tempt you with it now
I will taste you
If you remember my love
Going up from above
Are you listening love?
Throw your tears away
This tempting
Game from my gut
I will taste you
I will taste you (I've got a big mouth)
I've got a big mouth
I will taste you
I've got a big mouth I will taste you
I will taste you
Oh my love oh my love
I can't hear you my love
Tell em where have you gone
Far away far away
I can't feel you today
I need healing, love Oh my love
Oh my love
Oh my love
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Is it just me, or is this about anal sex? It's probably jus my perverted mind...
I need feeling come on I need it louder than bombs Come to me plug it in So I can digest you
wow i really like this song and the music itself is wonderful but the lyrics are a lil nasty if you know what i mean. kind of sick yet pleasing....probably is about anal sex....
At first i listened to this song and thought....This is about Blow Jobs..I will taste you I've got a big mouth I will taste you But reading the other posts i can see where your coming from with the anal thing. Come to me Plug it in So I can digest you
Anyways its a really good song and i love it.
Love the song. Anal, oral, eitherway it's pretty damn sexy when she sings it. But I don't get the anal interpretation of this song. Oral i do get. taste you (you taste by mouth) plug it in (sounds more anal than oral, but both can be) So i can digest you (don't you digets in stomage (what went through the mouth?) Please shake me and tug I need shaking my love (both sound more like beiing taken, so the anal interpretation goes) Please fill me up (again, both go, but to will up -in my sense is more anal than oral)
So... i don't know actually. But i still think oral is more plausible than anal
Oral...anal...who cares?
i'm not feeling the anal thing... but the repetiton is really clear of how much she wants all her love.
she wants to eat her lover cause she misses her lover, he's so delicious to her, his mind, everything, she wants him back.
Plug it in - anal So I can digest you - oral I will taste you - oral Appetite running fast - Oral Fall away my gut - Anal Please fill me up - Anal/Oral/Vaginal I will tempt you with it now - Oral Please shake me and tug - Anal Come to me plug it in - Anal guiding me from your gut - Anal I've got a big mouth - Oral
At the end of the day, I prefer the french version of the song
This song is good, I don't think it's anything specifically sexual though, just like those lusty - love songs.
there have been better songs written about sex. I like the French version better, the lyrics in English do nothing for me.