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.
And now a minute is trapped
It fell into a crack
Eleven tries leading the way
and then foresight comes
I've lost my sense of it all
The feelings I can't resolve
Circumstances outside convention
And you know I tried
To be part of life
[Chorus]
I found the rest of me
I was beaten on down
Emptiness set me free
I lived on a cloud
The walk through the storm was like a holiday
I happened to have been warned
Over and over again
The sense of speaking dissolved
Words meanings I couldn't recall
And all I'd found did my losing
I was tough to find
Playing games with my mind
Up the drops that I climbed
In the abyss I was hurled into
By who I brought back into time
[Chrous]
I found the rest of me
I was beaten on down
Emptiness set me free
I lived on a cloud
The walk through the storm was like a holiday
I happened to have been warned
Over and over again
It fell into a crack
Eleven tries leading the way
and then foresight comes
I've lost my sense of it all
The feelings I can't resolve
Circumstances outside convention
And you know I tried
To be part of life
[Chorus]
I found the rest of me
I was beaten on down
Emptiness set me free
I lived on a cloud
The walk through the storm was like a holiday
I happened to have been warned
Over and over again
The sense of speaking dissolved
Words meanings I couldn't recall
And all I'd found did my losing
I was tough to find
Playing games with my mind
Up the drops that I climbed
In the abyss I was hurled into
By who I brought back into time
[Chrous]
I found the rest of me
I was beaten on down
Emptiness set me free
I lived on a cloud
The walk through the storm was like a holiday
I happened to have been warned
Over and over again
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WHY HAS NO ONE COMMENTED ON THIS? I don't want to analyze or publicly dissect this because I love it and it has special meaning to me and that's that.
People are too lazy to dwell on such lyrics.
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Heaps of John's lyrics refer to different beliefs in Buddhism. I've started noticing this a lot lately since reading about Tibetan Buddhism. I don't think John Frusciante has ever called himself a Buddhist but it looks like he's pretty into some of teachings.
The nothing that he put himself through, set free the chains that held the self he was, Inside of the emptiness he was formed, though it is a trail by fire
Maybe he tried his hardest to be apart of the world but in the end he broke down and lost his mind and himself. Inside that bleakness he found a freedom beause it disolved the former person who he was. This place he went to was very destructive and they told him he might not come out