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.
Hey dainty girl flailing on the side of the road with your great thumb in the air
I hope you don't mind me asking but what happened to your underwear
And does your humble husband know of 'ee hitchin' seedy path with car operating sexual deviants
But julian would never understand
And doesn't he know?
Just because he's a painter and he loves you
It doesn't mean that he has got a clue
About
My thumbelina
I've never seen a pair of digits quite like yours, before
And I have traveled shore to shore
In such arduous pallor
Your almost perfect body's got me quivering in a ball
To that brass cowgirl with her hands petting your crotch
And humping you in towering grass
Naked and gender bending
What makes you think that the two of your will last
For there's no dame or man for her
There's just this open road where she hails down some pervert
With the usage of her giant thumb
But jelly bean you can never comprehend the intellect of her mind
And just because you can make her come with your hand it doesn't mean she'll be your woman.
My thumbelina
I've never seen a pair of digits quite like yours before
And I have traveled shore to shore
In such arduous pallor
Your almost perfect body's got me quivering in a ball
But 'twas a loon on the hillside
Planted a seed between your thighs
You fancy him as your therapist
But he's just a sadistic sodomist who gave you the bastard kid
My thumbelina
I've never seen a pair of digits quite like yours before
And I have traveled shore to shore
In such arduous pallor
Your almost perfect body's got me quivering in a ball
My thumbelina, My thumbelina, My thumbelina, My thumbelina Hey have you seen her?
I hope you don't mind me asking but what happened to your underwear
And does your humble husband know of 'ee hitchin' seedy path with car operating sexual deviants
But julian would never understand
And doesn't he know?
Just because he's a painter and he loves you
It doesn't mean that he has got a clue
About
My thumbelina
I've never seen a pair of digits quite like yours, before
And I have traveled shore to shore
In such arduous pallor
Your almost perfect body's got me quivering in a ball
To that brass cowgirl with her hands petting your crotch
And humping you in towering grass
Naked and gender bending
What makes you think that the two of your will last
For there's no dame or man for her
There's just this open road where she hails down some pervert
With the usage of her giant thumb
But jelly bean you can never comprehend the intellect of her mind
And just because you can make her come with your hand it doesn't mean she'll be your woman.
My thumbelina
I've never seen a pair of digits quite like yours before
And I have traveled shore to shore
In such arduous pallor
Your almost perfect body's got me quivering in a ball
But 'twas a loon on the hillside
Planted a seed between your thighs
You fancy him as your therapist
But he's just a sadistic sodomist who gave you the bastard kid
My thumbelina
I've never seen a pair of digits quite like yours before
And I have traveled shore to shore
In such arduous pallor
Your almost perfect body's got me quivering in a ball
My thumbelina, My thumbelina, My thumbelina, My thumbelina Hey have you seen her?
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some corrections:
patting ---> petting thigh and thumb ---> giant thumb who to the end ---> but juliet cum ---> come (makes it a double meaning) torturous pallor ---> arduous pallor fairest ---> therapist plant out a seed ---> planted a seed bedazzling ---> no clue what that should be, tough one
thanks for the help, I have no idea what bedazzling should become, it sounds like butswazaling/lean and I just put bedazzling in because it was closest real word I coud think of
does this song makes anyone else laugh? i love it. :)
I love the lyrics and the way Bredan sings this. I think it's roughly based on a book called 'Even Cow Girls Get The Blues' about a woman with massive thimbs that hitch hikes and gets badly treated by everyone she seems to come in contact with.
From the CD Jacket: Bedazzling-> "But 'twas a loon on the hillside"
Count Girl-> Cowgirl
there's just this open road where she'll hail down some pervert->"There's just this open road where she hails down some pervert"
"of 'ee hitchin' seedy path"
"but julian would never understand And doesn't he know? Just because he's a painter and he loves you It doesn't mean that he has got a clue."
naked and gender bending.. for there's no dame or man for her... But 'twas a loon on the hillside planted a seed between your thighs You fancy him as your therapist but he's just a sadistic sodomist who gave you the bastard kid
I'm new at this so here i go: I'm confused with the whole gender issue.first of all I know -thumbelina is a girl(someone can plant a seed in her) but, who is gender beanding? the whole enjambment in the lines makes it hard to understand to whom most of the pronouns belong. but if it is her gender bending it would make sense that.."there is no dame or man for her" cause she can switch.bi? maybe. and the man that gave her the child out of wedlock is turned on by causing pain(sadistic) and likes it in the behind(sodomist) but could she ever give it to him that way?
WHAT COULD THIS SONG POSSIBLY BE ABOUT!! I don't get it! All I know is that it makes me giggle. I'm thinking like.. hitchhiking whore. But is she a he? Or whattttt. Or is-- whoever bi?
so wait, this song is about sum girl who sleeps around, or what?Do Nightmare Of You have a website that would explain it????
ok i got it. this girl is standing by the road hitching lifts, and then she sleeps with them. and she is bi. but wat is the bit about the digits??
The digits are her two thumbs?