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.
Drinking words from a bone catheter
Without consistence
Tasting dominance as an appetizer
Ambitious platters spiced with numbers
My thoughts wander as I stare at the talking fish...
Giving sound advices on how to silence my dish.
Billions of living paintings for the greedy
In this summit of foam
Invited by naughty titans in their inhuman museum
To share not-so mysteries and their would-be decorum.
Feasting fools on a monstrous path
Feasting fools in a soiled bubble bath...
Table is set for tragedy
A misshapen mole in the face of decency.
Feasting fools on a monstrous path
Feasting fools in a soiled bubble bath...
A misshapen mole in the face of decency.
Cybernetic fairies in loss of power
Crushed by the work-till-death project
Sick as wingless birds
Skewered on a numeric stake.
Look, the synthetic clown is smiling
And the children are starving
Ludicrous pawn of despotic tramplers
Industrial monsters...
Industrial monsters, jaws ripping the very fabric
Of this physical existence.
Billions of living paintings for the greedy
In this summit of foam
Invited by naughty titans in their inhuman museum
To share not-so mysteries and their would-be decorum.
Feasting fools on a monstrous path
Feasting fools in a soiled bubble bath...
Table is set for tragedy
A misshapen mole in the face of decency.
Feasting fools on a monstrous path
Feasting fools in a soiled bubble bath...
A misshapen mole in the face of decency.
Elegant jackets
Dragon-skin style;
Mandrake cigars
Fathering tiny storms
Of snobbism,
Fresh cemetery juice
And electro-nerves
Floating rubber things.
High-educated horned giants
Worshiping shallow luxuries
Boiling with a vain intensity
Just staring at the
Cyclic visual feast.
Just standing now in the middle of a past
Marble still in the dead zone
The cemetery walking over me
And I wonder...
Descending to visualization vault XYZ After an exquisite dinner
Holographic sceneries depicting the All
So many lives...
Frames no more, captured by digital
Invisible bonds, but still such nice colors...
A juggling feat for the eaters,
A struggling beat for the wired.
Are they stones or are they names?
Am I stoned or just ashamed?
Just a human with respect in his pockets
Ready to share some with the face of the worthy
Let the Grim be aware,
I won't be reaped...
Without guarantees...
I like my eggs boiled and that's it.
Cybernetic fairies in loss of power
Crushed by the work-till-death project
Sick as wingless birds
Skewered on a numeric stake.
Without consistence
Tasting dominance as an appetizer
Ambitious platters spiced with numbers
My thoughts wander as I stare at the talking fish...
Giving sound advices on how to silence my dish.
Billions of living paintings for the greedy
In this summit of foam
Invited by naughty titans in their inhuman museum
To share not-so mysteries and their would-be decorum.
Feasting fools on a monstrous path
Feasting fools in a soiled bubble bath...
Table is set for tragedy
A misshapen mole in the face of decency.
Feasting fools on a monstrous path
Feasting fools in a soiled bubble bath...
A misshapen mole in the face of decency.
Cybernetic fairies in loss of power
Crushed by the work-till-death project
Sick as wingless birds
Skewered on a numeric stake.
Look, the synthetic clown is smiling
And the children are starving
Ludicrous pawn of despotic tramplers
Industrial monsters...
Industrial monsters, jaws ripping the very fabric
Of this physical existence.
Billions of living paintings for the greedy
In this summit of foam
Invited by naughty titans in their inhuman museum
To share not-so mysteries and their would-be decorum.
Feasting fools on a monstrous path
Feasting fools in a soiled bubble bath...
Table is set for tragedy
A misshapen mole in the face of decency.
Feasting fools on a monstrous path
Feasting fools in a soiled bubble bath...
A misshapen mole in the face of decency.
Elegant jackets
Dragon-skin style;
Mandrake cigars
Fathering tiny storms
Of snobbism,
Fresh cemetery juice
And electro-nerves
Floating rubber things.
High-educated horned giants
Worshiping shallow luxuries
Boiling with a vain intensity
Just staring at the
Cyclic visual feast.
Just standing now in the middle of a past
Marble still in the dead zone
The cemetery walking over me
And I wonder...
Descending to visualization vault XYZ After an exquisite dinner
Holographic sceneries depicting the All
So many lives...
Frames no more, captured by digital
Invisible bonds, but still such nice colors...
A juggling feat for the eaters,
A struggling beat for the wired.
Are they stones or are they names?
Am I stoned or just ashamed?
Just a human with respect in his pockets
Ready to share some with the face of the worthy
Let the Grim be aware,
I won't be reaped...
Without guarantees...
I like my eggs boiled and that's it.
Cybernetic fairies in loss of power
Crushed by the work-till-death project
Sick as wingless birds
Skewered on a numeric stake.
Lyrics submitted by Ionzorg
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