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.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
It’s three AM and I got to get the fuck out of here
There’s people calling me
There’s a girl calling my phone
She’s still at the bar I had just left
And I, I wont go back
No, I won’t go back in
She has a boy back where she’s from
Which constitutes a set of rules that
I can’t conform to
OH!
She plays the game! She’s playing games
I’m doing drugs and doing fine
Ok, ok, ok, am I ok, ok, ok?
Ok, ok
Ok, ok
Hey, flip that morbid coin!
I’ll take this chance one more time
I’m already dead, I’m already dead
All those words, these bones, my corpse it said:
Oh my God!
No
Please say “no”!
Please say “no”!
No, No, No
She came over
She’s drunk, I’m drunk and I’m sold
Please let go!
Please kiddo.
Let go of my throat
Please let go?
I’m trying to cough my self to sleep
And you are way too sweet to me
I can’t say “no”
But I want to
Oh, I want to
I wish I could
But I don’t know how to
If you’d let me
I would touch you
Kiss your stomach
And feel your hips move
And now we’re getting too close
Yeah, she’s getting real close
I can tell that she’s been out of control tonight
Now, she’s touching my mouth
She’s getting rid of her pants
I can’t begin to begin to think about touching her… you know
She’s a girl that I could really marry
Settle down and have a couple kids with
No divorce; there are only happy endings
This sin will kiss and give and kiss again
Oh my God!
Oh my God! Oh my God! (yeah)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Please don’t move!
There’s a spider on you.
Take him out
Take him down, you take him out!
Take him out, now!
Fuck these dreams
What do they mean?
Where are you from?
What are they sayin’?
What do ya say?
Everybody… Let’s sing it all together now!
That girl is the most
That girl is the most
That girl is a ghost
That girl is the most
It’s five AM and I gotta get myself into bed
I’m back at home
I’m better alone, yeah
Dear Danielle, I’m writing you to tell you that I
I want to be good
I wanted to kiss you
I swear I won’t give up on giving up when I’m not
Really ready or
Really supposed to
It’s ok if you don’t understand. I don’t
Understand it
Quite, myself
And even though
We both know
We talk and talk and outline our bodies in chalk
We both agree
That this should be easy… shouldn’t it?
Couldn’t it?
What do you say? What do you say?
It’s three AM and I got to get the fuck out of here
There’s people calling me
There’s a girl calling my phone
She’s still at the bar I had just left
And I, I wont go back
No, I won’t go back in
She has a boy back where she’s from
Which constitutes a set of rules that
I can’t conform to
OH!
She plays the game! She’s playing games
I’m doing drugs and doing fine
Ok, ok, ok, am I ok, ok, ok?
Ok, ok
Ok, ok
Hey, flip that morbid coin!
I’ll take this chance one more time
I’m already dead, I’m already dead
All those words, these bones, my corpse it said:
Oh my God!
No
Please say “no”!
Please say “no”!
No, No, No
She came over
She’s drunk, I’m drunk and I’m sold
Please let go!
Please kiddo.
Let go of my throat
Please let go?
I’m trying to cough my self to sleep
And you are way too sweet to me
I can’t say “no”
But I want to
Oh, I want to
I wish I could
But I don’t know how to
If you’d let me
I would touch you
Kiss your stomach
And feel your hips move
And now we’re getting too close
Yeah, she’s getting real close
I can tell that she’s been out of control tonight
Now, she’s touching my mouth
She’s getting rid of her pants
I can’t begin to begin to think about touching her… you know
She’s a girl that I could really marry
Settle down and have a couple kids with
No divorce; there are only happy endings
This sin will kiss and give and kiss again
Oh my God!
Oh my God! Oh my God! (yeah)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Please don’t move!
There’s a spider on you.
Take him out
Take him down, you take him out!
Take him out, now!
Fuck these dreams
What do they mean?
Where are you from?
What are they sayin’?
What do ya say?
Everybody… Let’s sing it all together now!
That girl is the most
That girl is the most
That girl is a ghost
That girl is the most
It’s five AM and I gotta get myself into bed
I’m back at home
I’m better alone, yeah
Dear Danielle, I’m writing you to tell you that I
I want to be good
I wanted to kiss you
I swear I won’t give up on giving up when I’m not
Really ready or
Really supposed to
It’s ok if you don’t understand. I don’t
Understand it
Quite, myself
And even though
We both know
We talk and talk and outline our bodies in chalk
We both agree
That this should be easy… shouldn’t it?
Couldn’t it?
What do you say? What do you say?
Lyrics submitted by cbortnsxr
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I think this songs bout a girl he met at a bar and who's drunk or whatnot, and shes out of control and looking to score, and she comes over and starts getting naked and he starts thinking weather he should go along. he thinks to himself that this girl that he could marry and settle down with. then he gets out of the situation by saying O MY GOD THERES A SPIDER ON YOU and freaking her out and telling her to take it out, and whiles she out taking the spider outside he thinkgs it over.
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