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.
Someday my pain, someday my pain
Will mark you
Harness your blame, harness your blame
And walk through
With the wild wolves around you
In the morning, I'll call you
Send it farther on
Solace my game, solace my game
It stars you
Swing wide your crane, swing wide your crane
And run me through
And the story's all over you
In the morning I'll call you
Can't you find a clue
when your eyes are all painted Sinatra blue
What might have been lost
What might have been lost
What might have been lost
What might have been lost (don't bother me)
What might have been lost (don't bother me)
What might have been lost (don't bother me)
What might have been lost (don't bother me)
What might have been lost (don't bother me)
What might have been (don't bother me) (what might have been lost)
What might have been lost (don't bother me) (what might have been)
What might have been lost (don't bother me)
What might have been lost
What might have been lost
What might have been lost
Ah
Ah
Someday, my pain
Someday, my pain
Someday, my pain
Someday, my pain
Will mark you
Harness your blame, harness your blame
And walk through
With the wild wolves around you
In the morning, I'll call you
Send it farther on
Solace my game, solace my game
It stars you
Swing wide your crane, swing wide your crane
And run me through
And the story's all over you
In the morning I'll call you
Can't you find a clue
when your eyes are all painted Sinatra blue
What might have been lost
What might have been lost
What might have been lost
What might have been lost (don't bother me)
What might have been lost (don't bother me)
What might have been lost (don't bother me)
What might have been lost (don't bother me)
What might have been lost (don't bother me)
What might have been (don't bother me) (what might have been lost)
What might have been lost (don't bother me) (what might have been)
What might have been lost (don't bother me)
What might have been lost
What might have been lost
What might have been lost
Ah
Ah
Someday, my pain
Someday, my pain
Someday, my pain
Someday, my pain
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To me this is definitely about a relationship gone sour. I think the song, as its title suggests, is broken into two parts. Difficult to tell, but the more I look at it, the more I think every verse goes back and forth. It seems like the woman was pretty terrible to the man. At first, the man says, Someday my pain, will mark you. I think it means that the woman may think she's fine now after the relationship, but someday in the future she'll realize how much she hurt someone who loved her and she'll have to carry that with her forever. I think the next part is possibly a response by the woman, telling him to stop blaming her and to just get over it.
The next part says, "with the wild wolves around you." I think it describes a person who has unexpectedly gotten in over their head. Probably describing the man who entered into a relationship with the best of intentions and expectations, but was suddenly surrounded by this woman who devoured him with no regard to him as a person. So I think the man responds, that after the relationship ends, he, in a serious sarcastic way, says he'll call her and tell her that she can just go ahead and do the same thing to someone else.
When he sings, "solace my game" I think it is the woman admitting that this sort of game she plays where she destroys mens' hearts brings her comfort, and at the moment, he's in the center of it. Then, this lyric is my favorite because of its power and terror, he sings, "swing wide your crane, swing wide your crane, and run me through." To me, the man is saying that if she's really going to destroy him, his heart, his soul, that she'd better just destroy it all. She should break him as hard as she possibly can (maybe so that she'll also destroy any love he ever had for her).
The next part I am not sure of. But it seems like the woman is saying that he is now enveloped in this situation and this relationship even though it has ended. And she's saying that she'll still try to call him in the morning and reconcile and repair the relationship, most likely so she can destroy it again soon. And the man responds with, "Can't you find a clue when your eyes are all painted Sinatra blue." Several people have said that Sinatra could refer to her naive view of love, but I think others are right when they say that the color of Frank Sinatra's eyes closely resemble the color eyes turn when they go blind. And I think he's telling the woman that he's not an idiot, and that she must be blind if she thinks he's not hurt enough to never return to her.
And I think the last words are spoken by the man. He believes that while he did love her, maybe even still, and wanted desperately to be with her, that none of it is worth it anymore. He realizes that a future with her is hell. So while he's hurt and maybe regrets parts of the relationship, he says whatever future life I might have just lost, it doesn't bother me.
Then the wonderful, emotional, angry bliss of music at the end I think well interprets the whole relationship. It's just an overwhelming of emotion and noise and you can't even think straight, you're just in the moment, listening to your soul scream.
Well, anyway that's just how I would interpret it.