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 war is passed
Now she tells him again
You should fetch the plans
The [ ], the [ ] you see
Leeway
Like the sun over the closing door
Whispered Caroline, walks down the steps
So feel the pain, feel the pain
The Heathen, the Heathen
Like the Heathen, the Heathen
From the crowd "Come Children of the Called"
And in the sect, they hurry around the closing door
So feel the pain, feel the pain
The Heathen, the Heathen
Like the Heathen, the Heathen
The Heathen
Like the Heathen
Like the Heathen
God look out for the Heathen
The Heathen
One more nightmare calling
Across the farthest fields
The night skies are dawning
Takes this much as you
Trees come down
Fall
There's a girl in a green dress
She's got eyes like fire and lips so tame
She's huddled by the girl who's crying in the red dress
Hunger for life in this dying dying age
Dying age
This dying age
Back in Gehenna
All great plains of the Earth
Are now lightened by fire
Now gather on the wrecked land
From these horsemen in iron
This is fear
You've all turned up
Now the atmosphere
Is thicker than blood
From Gehenna to here
A release of sin
It's become our lair
We
The Nephilim
Room full of people
Now scarred and distressed
The time's now happened
And the captured in a mess
The girl in the shawl
Crashes to the floor
Crying: "Open the gates
To the Devils' hordes"
See the woman thrive
In the blood from Heaven
Burn in banished fire
Like a scene called Hell
See the bloody fire
To you is forsaken
Burn this banished fire
Burn
Burn Hell
Centered by the arts
Most brutally
People are scarred
By cruelty
Oh
When malevolence falls
And what about ours
This message is clear
Now open up the ground
See the woman thrive
In the blood from Heaven
Burn in banished fire
Like a scene called Hell
See the bloody fire
To you is forsaken
Burn this banished fire
Burn
Burn Hell
Burn Hell
Burn Hell
Now she tells him again
You should fetch the plans
The [ ], the [ ] you see
Leeway
Like the sun over the closing door
Whispered Caroline, walks down the steps
So feel the pain, feel the pain
The Heathen, the Heathen
Like the Heathen, the Heathen
From the crowd "Come Children of the Called"
And in the sect, they hurry around the closing door
So feel the pain, feel the pain
The Heathen, the Heathen
Like the Heathen, the Heathen
The Heathen
Like the Heathen
Like the Heathen
God look out for the Heathen
The Heathen
One more nightmare calling
Across the farthest fields
The night skies are dawning
Takes this much as you
Trees come down
Fall
There's a girl in a green dress
She's got eyes like fire and lips so tame
She's huddled by the girl who's crying in the red dress
Hunger for life in this dying dying age
Dying age
This dying age
Back in Gehenna
All great plains of the Earth
Are now lightened by fire
Now gather on the wrecked land
From these horsemen in iron
This is fear
You've all turned up
Now the atmosphere
Is thicker than blood
From Gehenna to here
A release of sin
It's become our lair
We
The Nephilim
Room full of people
Now scarred and distressed
The time's now happened
And the captured in a mess
The girl in the shawl
Crashes to the floor
Crying: "Open the gates
To the Devils' hordes"
See the woman thrive
In the blood from Heaven
Burn in banished fire
Like a scene called Hell
See the bloody fire
To you is forsaken
Burn this banished fire
Burn
Burn Hell
Centered by the arts
Most brutally
People are scarred
By cruelty
Oh
When malevolence falls
And what about ours
This message is clear
Now open up the ground
See the woman thrive
In the blood from Heaven
Burn in banished fire
Like a scene called Hell
See the bloody fire
To you is forsaken
Burn this banished fire
Burn
Burn Hell
Burn Hell
Burn Hell
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Trees Come Down Lyrics as written by Carl Mccoy Alexander Wright
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