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.
My darling baby, now let's go to bed
But darling sounds like beloved instead
Mummy ignores the lurking dread
Sweet child of hers has twins in her head
Twins in her head, twins in her head, "I have twins in my head"
The bed was tucked, there's no one around
Wish I could move but my limbs are bound
The night is so thick and sweet mommy's gone
Afraid of the dark and the voices come
The voices come (and my mommy's gone)
Dollies and puppets dance on the shelf
Night-night me, night-night myself
Pictures, voices and thoughts in whirls
Girlies kissing other girls and other girls
Silent moans: "O mommy please help me!
Kiss her, no, kill her, can't help this uneasy
Dolly mixture of feeling and shadows
Anger and joy, tension and sorrow
And everything blows
Gingerbread bogeymen, void wedding dresses
Dance in the trees giving cold kisses
Legion of shades walk by the window
While winds blow the cries of weeping willows
She's the one to know
Through the moonlit forest pale feet ran fast
Trying to escape from herself aghast
The very last step was made to the river
Where lily-white dresses (will) float forever
For ever and ever
Everything hastened in the fake roundabout
Poor little girl, she found no way out
With lily white hands
The dead dollies took her
And tied her to dreams for ever and ever
Gemini Girly came and said to me
"Don't you be worried, I lie with dollies
And they look after me
Just like sweet mommy
Used to care for me
Used to care for me"
And every fucking night she comes in my sleep
Every fucking night she comes in my sleep
Sweet Gemini Girly cries, Gemini Girly dies, Gemini Girly lies
Her lily white dress shines
Deep, deep down inside; deep, deep down inside
The river and mind, the river and my mind
Down inside, river and my mind
The river and . . . my mind
But darling sounds like beloved instead
Mummy ignores the lurking dread
Sweet child of hers has twins in her head
Twins in her head, twins in her head, "I have twins in my head"
The bed was tucked, there's no one around
Wish I could move but my limbs are bound
The night is so thick and sweet mommy's gone
Afraid of the dark and the voices come
The voices come (and my mommy's gone)
Dollies and puppets dance on the shelf
Night-night me, night-night myself
Pictures, voices and thoughts in whirls
Girlies kissing other girls and other girls
Silent moans: "O mommy please help me!
Kiss her, no, kill her, can't help this uneasy
Dolly mixture of feeling and shadows
Anger and joy, tension and sorrow
And everything blows
Gingerbread bogeymen, void wedding dresses
Dance in the trees giving cold kisses
Legion of shades walk by the window
While winds blow the cries of weeping willows
She's the one to know
Through the moonlit forest pale feet ran fast
Trying to escape from herself aghast
The very last step was made to the river
Where lily-white dresses (will) float forever
For ever and ever
Everything hastened in the fake roundabout
Poor little girl, she found no way out
With lily white hands
The dead dollies took her
And tied her to dreams for ever and ever
Gemini Girly came and said to me
"Don't you be worried, I lie with dollies
And they look after me
Just like sweet mommy
Used to care for me
Used to care for me"
And every fucking night she comes in my sleep
Every fucking night she comes in my sleep
Sweet Gemini Girly cries, Gemini Girly dies, Gemini Girly lies
Her lily white dress shines
Deep, deep down inside; deep, deep down inside
The river and mind, the river and my mind
Down inside, river and my mind
The river and . . . my mind
Lyrics submitted by zweiundzwei, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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Wow, no one's commented? I like it. It's creepy, it's emotional and quarky at the same time. This could be about anything from a mental paient trapped in a room: "I wish I could move by my limbs are bound."
It also talks about voices in one's head. Maybe it's about one mental patient that befrends another, the latter killing herself and she comes in the girl's dreams to reassure her that things are alright.
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See one thing no one thinks of when listening to songs/reading lyrics by Katz Kab is that they have a strong urge to reach for the strange. I'm a huge fan, and have read some interviews with them. The member who writers the lyrics, Klischee, says he always tries to achieve strageness, nonesense or confusion in what he writes. He doesn't want it to make any sense. I really admire this in their lyrics, it makes the storys all that more interresting. So I'd say its hard to understand the meaning, they're not meant to have any meaning behind the but what has been given.
I think this song, at least, tells a story. Claims of meaninglessness -even from the writer- are sort of a cowardly renunciation of analysis.
Herr Katz (Klishee writes the music) does not claim meaninglessness, he claims meaninglessness outside of the song, so he does not say the song does not tell a story, but that it has no meaning/relevance in relation to anything else in the world. That's how I understood it anyway.