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 last days soon comes, the signs are shown
In the blood washed streets of a manmade Babylon
Feeding on everything our fathers left behind
Abasing her grace since the beginning of time
The rotten flesh of mother earth
Pleads in sincere desperation her longing wish for Armageddon
Deep inside a diabolical birth
Prepare the grim invasion of the twisted demons soon unleashed
"The worms shall seek the light, homeless children seek the night
Their minds in loveless bright, and dying sirens shall call
Angels walk the ground, no longer shall they be heaven-bound
Thunder's distant roar shall sound and feathers shall fall"
Pulling at her blood stained sleeve
Closing our eyes in disbelief
A starless sky in purple shades
Shine upon the landscape of am apocalyptical metropoolis
It's a vast wound in her face
Decaying since the coming of man like god's leprous kiss
"The worms shall seek the light, homeless children seek the night
Their minds in loveless bright, and dying sirens shall call
Angels walk the ground, no longer shall they be heaven-bound
Thunder's distant roar shall sound and feathers shall fall"
Feeding on everything our fathers left behind
Abasing her grace since the beginning of time
Gnawing at her empty breasts
Tearing at her heartless chest
Rip the veil and sacrecy away
Expose the truth, her deepest secrets in the name of progress
Bend the rules and break the chains
Binding us to the only touchable and certain god or goddess
"The worms shall seek the light, homeless children seek the night
Their minds in loveless bright, and dying sirens shall call
Angels walk the ground, no longer shall they be heaven-bound
Thunder's distant roar shall sound and feathers shall fall
The worms shall seek the light, homeless children seek the night
Their minds in loveless bright, and dying sirens shall call
...and feathers shall fall
...and feathers shall fall"
In the blood washed streets of a manmade Babylon
Feeding on everything our fathers left behind
Abasing her grace since the beginning of time
The rotten flesh of mother earth
Pleads in sincere desperation her longing wish for Armageddon
Deep inside a diabolical birth
Prepare the grim invasion of the twisted demons soon unleashed
"The worms shall seek the light, homeless children seek the night
Their minds in loveless bright, and dying sirens shall call
Angels walk the ground, no longer shall they be heaven-bound
Thunder's distant roar shall sound and feathers shall fall"
Pulling at her blood stained sleeve
Closing our eyes in disbelief
A starless sky in purple shades
Shine upon the landscape of am apocalyptical metropoolis
It's a vast wound in her face
Decaying since the coming of man like god's leprous kiss
"The worms shall seek the light, homeless children seek the night
Their minds in loveless bright, and dying sirens shall call
Angels walk the ground, no longer shall they be heaven-bound
Thunder's distant roar shall sound and feathers shall fall"
Feeding on everything our fathers left behind
Abasing her grace since the beginning of time
Gnawing at her empty breasts
Tearing at her heartless chest
Rip the veil and sacrecy away
Expose the truth, her deepest secrets in the name of progress
Bend the rules and break the chains
Binding us to the only touchable and certain god or goddess
"The worms shall seek the light, homeless children seek the night
Their minds in loveless bright, and dying sirens shall call
Angels walk the ground, no longer shall they be heaven-bound
Thunder's distant roar shall sound and feathers shall fall
The worms shall seek the light, homeless children seek the night
Their minds in loveless bright, and dying sirens shall call
...and feathers shall fall
...and feathers shall fall"
Lyrics submitted by TheDirge
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