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.
The hunger dressed alone
Ten years have gone and past
A vision of carnival
Dark days immaculate
Search the town of a million smiling clowns
Red cat monster beauty her hands in chains
Her eyes still glow like heaven
Broken, unsound, cut her wings off
The night, a vampire trademark
Dead men walking free
The dancing has created a fire
Two headed strong man disgust, desire
Midnight (destruct)
Break bones (for hire)
Create (sickness)
A war for purity
The Blood we shared
The love we cannot let go (I have you now)
Her eyes still glow like heaven
Broken, unsound, cut her wings off
The night, a vampire trademark
Dead men walking free
We wont turn to dust...
In all it's glory, and kept in secret books closed with wax
The dark angels will retreat and return to hell
Her eyes still glow like heaven
Broken, unsound, cut her wings off
The night, a vampire trademark
Dead men walking freeHer eyes still glow like heaven
Broken, unsound, cut her wings off
The night, a vampire trademark
Dead men walking free
Midnight, Destruct, let go
We won't turn to dust
Ten years have gone and past
A vision of carnival
Dark days immaculate
Search the town of a million smiling clowns
Red cat monster beauty her hands in chains
Her eyes still glow like heaven
Broken, unsound, cut her wings off
The night, a vampire trademark
Dead men walking free
The dancing has created a fire
Two headed strong man disgust, desire
Midnight (destruct)
Break bones (for hire)
Create (sickness)
A war for purity
The Blood we shared
The love we cannot let go (I have you now)
Her eyes still glow like heaven
Broken, unsound, cut her wings off
The night, a vampire trademark
Dead men walking free
We wont turn to dust...
In all it's glory, and kept in secret books closed with wax
The dark angels will retreat and return to hell
Her eyes still glow like heaven
Broken, unsound, cut her wings off
The night, a vampire trademark
Dead men walking freeHer eyes still glow like heaven
Broken, unsound, cut her wings off
The night, a vampire trademark
Dead men walking free
Midnight, Destruct, let go
We won't turn to dust
Lyrics submitted by GeeEyeGeff
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First off if you listen to the intro closely he screams: Why Won't it stop? Why Won't it stop? Why Won't it stop!
Anyways I think the Angel was put on a sort of trial. The people at the trial (what I think to be the Vampire's clan/coven) are yelling for her wings to be cut off as punishment, possibly a punishment to the Vampire for loving someone he can't have. He's spared from a punishment so in a way he is a "Dead man walking free." Maybe this is referred to in "Beyond The Hourglass" when the latin line at the end say "The guilty man to be judged, Spare him."
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This was one of the first IAG songs I heard, I still love it.
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i like this song. it has a typical carnival/circus feel to it. maybe the meaning it is portraying is unity. 'we won't turn to dust'. as one in the 'carnival' a certain group of people is strong. hmm, may have to expand deeper into that one...
In all it's glory, and kept in secret books closed with wax The dark angels will retreat and return to hell
welll you know in those movies with the sprits and stuff, and they always are looking through old books in libraries or ancient homes, and they have a candle to light their way? well i guess it kept dripping, beacuse they took too long to find what they were finding, and the candle burned out?
The dark angels will retreat and return to hell ^ then they found what they were looking for, when it got dark. but the dark angels left and went to hell anyway
awsome song. i didn't know they had a girl in the band it's hard as hell to tell
yeah, one of my fvorites by I Am Ghost. Love the guitar parts and the screams.
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I think this song can be translated in to a love story. He is searching for the vampire that turned him, whom he fell in love with, and when he finds her, she looks just as he remembered. They celebrate by dancing where it is looked upon in a bad way. Now that they have found each other they will never let go. They find the secret to immortality within aged books and as the world ends around them they are still alive to spend it with each other. amazing song