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.
I saw your face
In a pretty magazine
You don't even know
Where you are and what you've seen
Why do you lie?
Do you need to fill us fear?
What's that worth to you?
Oh we used to look up to you
Oh my god I know too well
Being sweet just doesn't sell
If you've got better things to do
I try to run but my legs ache
The photographs that I refuse to take
Oh will it never end
We are alone
Departed from our bones
What's that worth to you?
Oh we used to look up to you
Oh my god I know too well
Being sweet just doesn't sell
If you've got better things to do
Am I hiding again?
Am I hiding again?
Tell me how to live my life
Ooh ooh ooh
And the sun is shining down, yeah
And the sun is shining down
Oh my god I know too well
Being sweet just never sells
If you've got better things to do
Am I hiding again?
Am I hiding again?
Tell me how to live my life
Ooh ooh ooh
And the sun is shining down, yeah
Yeah the sun it's shining down.
In a pretty magazine
You don't even know
Where you are and what you've seen
Why do you lie?
Do you need to fill us fear?
What's that worth to you?
Oh we used to look up to you
Oh my god I know too well
Being sweet just doesn't sell
If you've got better things to do
I try to run but my legs ache
The photographs that I refuse to take
Oh will it never end
We are alone
Departed from our bones
What's that worth to you?
Oh we used to look up to you
Oh my god I know too well
Being sweet just doesn't sell
If you've got better things to do
Am I hiding again?
Am I hiding again?
Tell me how to live my life
Ooh ooh ooh
And the sun is shining down, yeah
And the sun is shining down
Oh my god I know too well
Being sweet just never sells
If you've got better things to do
Am I hiding again?
Am I hiding again?
Tell me how to live my life
Ooh ooh ooh
And the sun is shining down, yeah
Yeah the sun it's shining down.
Lyrics submitted by bing_redboy
Shiny Magazine Lyrics as written by Nicholas John Cester Christopher Cester
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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the lyrics are wrong.
it is "if you've got better things to do"
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I really have no clue what it is about. Maybe about just not being good enough?
A song that could easily fit on A Hard Days Night or Help! by The Beatles.
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Ooh, Beatles-esque for sure. Um, this is a guess on my part, but could this song be about some girl whose life went down a destructive path? She's in a pretty magazine (shiny even) but she was so sweet that he can't stand it. Maybe?
I love this song. Jet's new CD is sooo good...I have no idea what this is about, though. LOL. Jet seems to try to make many songs about like society. I think this is about something similar to Skin and Bones...they don't like values these days.
definatly anout a girl who he obviously likes but she was maybe too good for him or something...overall a good song..very beatles-ish!
Well I think that it could be about a girl of celebrity status that people look up to, this person being in a magazine doesnt sell when you make stupid ideas. And "my legs ache", I think means that they don't like the press coverage and pictures being taken when it puts them under bad light, but they are always somewhere that they can capture an image of them.
Chris sings this song and i heard he wrote it about nic. is this true?