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.
La la la! La la la!
La la la! La la la!
La la la! La la la!
La la la! La la la!
There's a fracture in the color bar
In the backseat of a parked car
By the liquor store where the streetlight
Keep you company till the next night
In the same town, there's the same scar
In the same glow of the liquor store
By the freeway where the headlight
Keep her company till the next night
Oh! Gravity
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
Sons of my enemies
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
In the back room of the Pentagon
There's a thin man with the line drawn
With a red jaw and a red bite
Watch the headline on the next night
Oh! Gravity
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
Sons of my enemies
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
Why this tragedy?
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
Oh! Gravity
Why can't we seem to put it together?
In the fallout, the fallout
We found out the hype won't get you through
We're connected, connected
I meant it, the hype won't get you through
(Through!)
Oh! Gravity
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
Oh! Gravity
Why can't we seem to put it together?
Why this tragedy?
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
Oh! Gravity
Why can't we seem to put it together, now?
La la la la la la!
La la la!
La la la la la la la la!
La la la la la!
La la la!
La
Let's put it together
La la la! La la la!
La la la! La la la!
La la la! La la la!
There's a fracture in the color bar
In the backseat of a parked car
By the liquor store where the streetlight
Keep you company till the next night
In the same town, there's the same scar
In the same glow of the liquor store
By the freeway where the headlight
Keep her company till the next night
Oh! Gravity
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
Sons of my enemies
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
In the back room of the Pentagon
There's a thin man with the line drawn
With a red jaw and a red bite
Watch the headline on the next night
Oh! Gravity
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
Sons of my enemies
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
Why this tragedy?
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
Oh! Gravity
Why can't we seem to put it together?
In the fallout, the fallout
We found out the hype won't get you through
We're connected, connected
I meant it, the hype won't get you through
(Through!)
Oh! Gravity
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
Oh! Gravity
Why can't we seem to put it together?
Why this tragedy?
Why can't we seem to keep it together?
Oh! Gravity
Why can't we seem to put it together, now?
La la la la la la!
La la la!
La la la la la la la la!
La la la la la!
La la la!
La
Let's put it together
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I'm sure some of these are wrong because the recording I have was obtained by someone holding a cell phone up to a radio that was playing the song acoustic. The fifth line of the song is a total guess, and the first one doesn't sound right either. Any help on these would be awesome.
Thanks, alot of those sound pretty correct. I want a full version of this song.
Updated to this version: fox6.com/mediacenter/default.aspx
I must say, this song is AMAZING.
I listened to it about 500 times so far, and after thinking about it a while, what I got out of it was that it's talking about a what makes people fall morally.
An article/interview on the album said its a politically-motivated appeal for peace, love and understanding. Which makes sense..
First of all ThisSettingSun's lyrics are compeletely wrong. Second, its pretty straightforward wat the chorus means, but the verses make no sense to me
When I read them, I was like, WTF. The first line without a doubt says fracture, so they were wrong right off the bat
Notice that thissettingsun's lyrics were posted in July, when all we had of the song was a cell phone recording of an acoustic version of the song. Needless to say, it was a bit hard to understand.
it sounds like they're goin back to their old sound with this one, but switch back to their newer more "rockish" sound with the next track. its great. switchfoot is one of the best bands of the generation in my opinion. oh and drummerjoe, you try interpreting the lyrics off a phone recording. before the cd was even out. yea thats right you cant. so shut up.
does anyone else agree the verses in this song are too familiar... i cant place a song name, but i swear the verses in this song musically sound exactly the same as some other song i've herd in the past
besides that good song