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 remember the gatherins
Big festive mugs of fruit punch-eeh
Twelve foot long table of greasies, covered up with bits
Rattle-snaps and snivelin snorkel bites, i loved em
Drainage and drainage and all the orifices happy and full
uhnn...
An ol Edna
Edna with her big kettle o boilin oil and her six-or-seven inch strips o goat placenta
Fryin up real deep n crunchy
mm ahmm..
Earl and his head!
Scrapin ol cuss had a big ol mole filled pocked mark billiard head table piece a sheee
Scraped it.
We always scraped it
Had wax n hairs n we had to scrub n do-it to-it, if y'know whadda mean
eehnn...
And old Willie
Willie didn't walk so well there at the end i think it had somethin to do with bein duct-taped to a lawn chair
yaeeh
Bein old
haeh eehn
Prop'm up in the back yard
Feed him lemonade until he'd
Piss all over himself
mbuhgzegzegzegzegzegzeeeaah
I remember faces
Bellies being stuffed full
Kiddies tossing cow chips
Smellin like it.
I remember faces
Bellies being stuffed full
Runnin with a pin wheel
To the waterin hole
Feast of freaks
Feast of freaks
Twelve foot long table o greasies i think i toldja
BIG mugs with stuff that was goood but i don't know what it was
They're mystery biscuits i know those
They're little hard things they taste a lot like lumber or dirt er some soil or such
I think they have protein but
I dunno the only way i could tell is if ya bit into somethin an it had a tooth or bone or
Some sorta identification parts if ya know whadda mean
heh heh..
I love the children too
Kids in the backyard
Chasin after all the pets with the cans of WD-40 and the bic lighters eh heh heh:
KHEBWHEGHEHEGHHHH-eeyyyhhh
I love those
And they toss back and forth
Dried-up platters of manure
Like frisbees but made of feces, frisbees n feces it all goes together
eeeh..
Well once in a while one would be airborne and it'd bust up n some kid'd get a mouth fulla shit n look like little Al Jolson on the prairie, hee hee. heheee
And there's Earl, i told ya
Earl's pock marked piece o nothin, didn't look so good,
and he'd always get us back, cuz we did it to im,
and you know what he'd do,
he'd take one o them big long 18 inch mine intruder...
Vibrators
With the switch on hand ya throw kill oh boy thatta make ya feel so good if ya got a muscle binged up but not for cows
He'd take it out inta the pasture
Stuff it up a cow's ass
Duct tape it in real tight n turn it on:
nvnvnvnvnv-EEEEE
nvnvnvnvnv-EEEEE
nvnvnvnvnv-EEEEE
nvnvnvnvnvnvNVNVNVNVGHGAAAAGH
I remember faces
Bellies being stuffed full
Kiddies tossin cow chips
Smellin like it.
I remember faces
Bellies bein stuffed full
Runnin with a pin wheel
To the waterin hole
Feast of freaks
Feast of freaks
hee heeee
he he he
ha ha ha ha ha
hah hah hah hah haaaah
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eh he he heee
wooo he he he ha hah hah
ooooo
ooo weee ooo
hah hah hah hah haa
eeeoooo woooahhoooo
oh yeahh
oh ah haaa
ah haaay
hay hiyya doin
ahh hah hah hah
aaahh hah hah
aaaaahh hah hah hah hah
aah hah haaaah
wooeeeee
aoohh
aaoooohh ah hahaha
ahh haey
hey that's it
ooh thats the one
oh yeah
oooh
ah hoo
eh heeha
eh he
nnnngee
nee he
nmguh
uh hubh
mm heemmm
uh
oh
mmbmmm-hmm-hmm-hm
uh-huh-huh-huhh
no
nooo
n-ho-ho-ho-oo
unh-hn-hna-no-oo
ahlwngnleh
oh-hu-hu-hu-wha-hay
ahwhenenunnenn
wooongehhbehh
aoo
mmbmbmb
jsk-nguh
waah
unaahahah
uh huh huh huh huh
idinsheedled
endeedleedld
idlidlsedl
hehdidjbaad
uhh dis's bad
i didn wannen
nuhdidnhuhhuhuhihuudoodeleeidleidlel
uhnvnvnnvnv...
I remember faces
Bellies being stuffed full
Kiddies tossin cow chips
Smellin like it.
I remember faces
Bellies being stuffed full
Runnin with a pin wheel
To the waterin hole
Freaks...
i remember faces
bellies being stuffed full
i remember faces
bellies being stuffed full
kiddies tossin cow chips
smellin like it
i remember faces
bellies being stuffed full
kiddies tossin cow chips
smellin like it
i remember faces
and the
bellies being stuffed full
and the
kiddies tossin cow chips
and they were smellin like it
i remember faces
and the
bellies being stuffed full
and the
kiddies tossin cow chips
and they
smellin like it
stuffed full
kiddies tossin faces
being stuffed cowchips
faces stuffed full
smellin like it
i remember faces
Big festive mugs of fruit punch-eeh
Twelve foot long table of greasies, covered up with bits
Rattle-snaps and snivelin snorkel bites, i loved em
Drainage and drainage and all the orifices happy and full
uhnn...
An ol Edna
Edna with her big kettle o boilin oil and her six-or-seven inch strips o goat placenta
Fryin up real deep n crunchy
mm ahmm..
Earl and his head!
Scrapin ol cuss had a big ol mole filled pocked mark billiard head table piece a sheee
Scraped it.
We always scraped it
Had wax n hairs n we had to scrub n do-it to-it, if y'know whadda mean
eehnn...
And old Willie
Willie didn't walk so well there at the end i think it had somethin to do with bein duct-taped to a lawn chair
yaeeh
Bein old
haeh eehn
Prop'm up in the back yard
Feed him lemonade until he'd
Piss all over himself
mbuhgzegzegzegzegzegzeeeaah
I remember faces
Bellies being stuffed full
Kiddies tossing cow chips
Smellin like it.
I remember faces
Bellies being stuffed full
Runnin with a pin wheel
To the waterin hole
Feast of freaks
Feast of freaks
Twelve foot long table o greasies i think i toldja
BIG mugs with stuff that was goood but i don't know what it was
They're mystery biscuits i know those
They're little hard things they taste a lot like lumber or dirt er some soil or such
I think they have protein but
I dunno the only way i could tell is if ya bit into somethin an it had a tooth or bone or
Some sorta identification parts if ya know whadda mean
heh heh..
I love the children too
Kids in the backyard
Chasin after all the pets with the cans of WD-40 and the bic lighters eh heh heh:
KHEBWHEGHEHEGHHHH-eeyyyhhh
I love those
And they toss back and forth
Dried-up platters of manure
Like frisbees but made of feces, frisbees n feces it all goes together
eeeh..
Well once in a while one would be airborne and it'd bust up n some kid'd get a mouth fulla shit n look like little Al Jolson on the prairie, hee hee. heheee
And there's Earl, i told ya
Earl's pock marked piece o nothin, didn't look so good,
and he'd always get us back, cuz we did it to im,
and you know what he'd do,
he'd take one o them big long 18 inch mine intruder...
Vibrators
With the switch on hand ya throw kill oh boy thatta make ya feel so good if ya got a muscle binged up but not for cows
He'd take it out inta the pasture
Stuff it up a cow's ass
Duct tape it in real tight n turn it on:
nvnvnvnvnv-EEEEE
nvnvnvnvnv-EEEEE
nvnvnvnvnv-EEEEE
nvnvnvnvnvnvNVNVNVNVGHGAAAAGH
I remember faces
Bellies being stuffed full
Kiddies tossin cow chips
Smellin like it.
I remember faces
Bellies bein stuffed full
Runnin with a pin wheel
To the waterin hole
Feast of freaks
Feast of freaks
hee heeee
he he he
ha ha ha ha ha
hah hah hah hah haaaah
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eh he he heee
wooo he he he ha hah hah
ooooo
ooo weee ooo
hah hah hah hah haa
eeeoooo woooahhoooo
oh yeahh
oh ah haaa
ah haaay
hay hiyya doin
ahh hah hah hah
aaahh hah hah
aaaaahh hah hah hah hah
aah hah haaaah
wooeeeee
aoohh
aaoooohh ah hahaha
ahh haey
hey that's it
ooh thats the one
oh yeah
oooh
ah hoo
eh heeha
eh he
nnnngee
nee he
nmguh
uh hubh
mm heemmm
uh
oh
mmbmmm-hmm-hmm-hm
uh-huh-huh-huhh
no
nooo
n-ho-ho-ho-oo
unh-hn-hna-no-oo
ahlwngnleh
oh-hu-hu-hu-wha-hay
ahwhenenunnenn
wooongehhbehh
aoo
mmbmbmb
jsk-nguh
waah
unaahahah
uh huh huh huh huh
idinsheedled
endeedleedld
idlidlsedl
hehdidjbaad
uhh dis's bad
i didn wannen
nuhdidnhuhhuhuhihuudoodeleeidleidlel
uhnvnvnnvnv...
I remember faces
Bellies being stuffed full
Kiddies tossin cow chips
Smellin like it.
I remember faces
Bellies being stuffed full
Runnin with a pin wheel
To the waterin hole
Freaks...
i remember faces
bellies being stuffed full
i remember faces
bellies being stuffed full
kiddies tossin cow chips
smellin like it
i remember faces
bellies being stuffed full
kiddies tossin cow chips
smellin like it
i remember faces
and the
bellies being stuffed full
and the
kiddies tossin cow chips
and they were smellin like it
i remember faces
and the
bellies being stuffed full
and the
kiddies tossin cow chips
and they
smellin like it
stuffed full
kiddies tossin faces
being stuffed cowchips
faces stuffed full
smellin like it
i remember faces
Lyrics submitted by Psychoris
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