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.
No kind of love.
I don't want to make no scene
Lovers come and go, or make you Mrs.
Anyone or make you Mr.
Me.
I'm into you like a train.
Yeah,
Fall in love.
I don't want to tape you down or shack you up with me,
Or put you where the flowers go or get into your mind.
I'm into you like a train.
Now fall in love.
Yeah,
Fall in love.
If you believe that anyone like me within a song is outside it all,
Then you are all so wrong.
If you believe that anyone like me within a song would try and change it all,
Then you have been put on.
I don't want to wear no side or complicate it all,
Or celebrate your prettiness and kick you in it all.
So wrong.
I don't want to make no scene
Lovers come and go, or make you Mrs.
Anyone or make you Mr.
Me.
I'm into you like a train.
Yeah,
Fall in love.
I don't want to tape you down or shack you up with me,
Or put you where the flowers go or get into your mind.
I'm into you like a train.
Now fall in love.
Yeah,
Fall in love.
If you believe that anyone like me within a song is outside it all,
Then you are all so wrong.
If you believe that anyone like me within a song would try and change it all,
Then you have been put on.
I don't want to wear no side or complicate it all,
Or celebrate your prettiness and kick you in it all.
So wrong.
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@FolsomFred "If you believe that anyone like me within a song is outside it all,<br /> Then you are all so wrong."<br /> <br /> The song slows down just to let him make this point. Sure, he wishes he was beyond the hypocritical notion of love and romance, that he could just have fun and have it mean nothing more than that. He doesn't want to tape you down and shack you up with him. And yet, he knows that he's no better than anyone else, and when it comes down to it, he's as likely to fall in stupid love as anyone else.
@FolsomFred Also, the rage came back after the artistic (if not commercial) failure of Midnight to Midnight. If you haven't listened to say, "House" since it came out, give it another try. Sure, the anger of Book of Days is more that of a bitter old man than of a nihilistic young art student, but it's just as angry, and nothing at all like the self-restrained mediocrity of Midnight and Mirror Moves.<br /> <br /> Of course I still listen to the first two albums a lot more often… but not being as great as Talk Talk Talk is hardly a shattering criticism; most things in the universe aren't as great as Talk Talk Talk.