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.
Where there was life there was water
We depend on mama nature
There is a message for tomorrow
Everything connect's to you
Some says soon there will be over
You can see it in the weather
Out of tune with mama nature
What you do comes back to you
We're not alone
We're not alone
We're not alone
We're not alone
Confucius, Confucius
Sigmund Freud
And Fard Muhammad
Is it evolution or God?
Searching for the truth is a threat
Seems the closer we get to the truth
State troopers or FED's come out to silence you
My house in Malibu probably tapped
Because living next door to Demi Moore
Plus, I'm black
Plus, I want vengeance for the poor
Who's attacked daily
Patriot Act never scared me
Jake in the Taurus
Sticky in the jar-s
Niggas I'm with got warrants
America's brown and
Twenty years from now
Every town will be brown and Latin
Or African, look at Manhattan
I'ma tell you what I seen with my three eyes
Word to me, not a hoax, back in 9-9
A spacecraft in the skyline
In L.A., in daytime, ask Horse if I'm lying
Every mother every father
Raise your sons and your daughters
With respect and with honor
From the seed comes a fruit
It's an unbroken circle
All of life is universal
And we are all in the struggle
If I know one thing is true
We're not alone
We're not alone
We're not alone
We're not alone
Evidence remains in debate
Documents of our own Air Force base
Additional terrestrial information
Other planets with life population
My observation
Scientists study pictures of a flying disc
Right on earth, anthropologists are finding shit
Visitors, probably live with us
They can mimic us
It's sort of what we seeing in the cinemas
Take a look in the mirror
And see the bigger picture
It's good to be alive
It's good to be alive
Nobody is an island
We are part of an survive
Only way we gonna survive is if we harmonize
We're not alone
We're not alone oh
We're not alone
We're not alone
Reginald Lewis
The black billionaire
Before Oprah or Bob Johnson
How'd he disappear?
Conspiracy theories, UFO's in the air
I've seen it with my own two eyes
And I swear, like Warren Buffet
Real money I'm just trying to touch it
The diamond-encrusted shit, live illustrious
'Cause we was deprived of it, suffered
Now we pop to prove anything's possible
My pimp strut was invented when they whipped us
Now we diddy-bop just to show you that our strength's up
Just when niggas about to see they cut
Global warming about to burn us up
Niggas never really seen paper in this world
American blacks the teenager of this world
Give us twenty more years to grow up
Already geniuses, what I mean is this
I used to worship a certain Queens police murderer
'Til I read the words of Ivan van Sertima
He inserted something in me
That made me feel worthier
Now I spit revolution
I'm his hood interpreter
Take a look in the mirror
And see the bigger picture
It's good to be alive
It's good to be alive
Nobody is an island (is an island)
We are part of an environment (an environment)
Only way we are gonna survive (gonna survive)
Is if we harmonize (harmonize)
We're not alone yeah yeah
We're not alone were not alone
We're not alone yeah yeah
We're not alone
Yeah yeah not alone
Ayo, I'm American born, love America
Love my people love all man kind
All nationalities you know, I think it's just recent
Where everybody just started to feel like there
Was an elite group that runs everything and
Everybody else was sheep ignorant making all
Ethnicities colors and creeds niggas blind to what
Really is going on so I say take off the wool from your
Eyes out with the old America in with the new end all
Racism all injustice all oppression to poor people any
People anywhere in this planet lets come together
A new day is rising
We depend on mama nature
There is a message for tomorrow
Everything connect's to you
Some says soon there will be over
You can see it in the weather
Out of tune with mama nature
What you do comes back to you
We're not alone
We're not alone
We're not alone
We're not alone
Confucius, Confucius
Sigmund Freud
And Fard Muhammad
Is it evolution or God?
Searching for the truth is a threat
Seems the closer we get to the truth
State troopers or FED's come out to silence you
My house in Malibu probably tapped
Because living next door to Demi Moore
Plus, I'm black
Plus, I want vengeance for the poor
Who's attacked daily
Patriot Act never scared me
Jake in the Taurus
Sticky in the jar-s
Niggas I'm with got warrants
America's brown and
Twenty years from now
Every town will be brown and Latin
Or African, look at Manhattan
I'ma tell you what I seen with my three eyes
Word to me, not a hoax, back in 9-9
A spacecraft in the skyline
In L.A., in daytime, ask Horse if I'm lying
Every mother every father
Raise your sons and your daughters
With respect and with honor
From the seed comes a fruit
It's an unbroken circle
All of life is universal
And we are all in the struggle
If I know one thing is true
We're not alone
We're not alone
We're not alone
We're not alone
Evidence remains in debate
Documents of our own Air Force base
Additional terrestrial information
Other planets with life population
My observation
Scientists study pictures of a flying disc
Right on earth, anthropologists are finding shit
Visitors, probably live with us
They can mimic us
It's sort of what we seeing in the cinemas
Take a look in the mirror
And see the bigger picture
It's good to be alive
It's good to be alive
Nobody is an island
We are part of an survive
Only way we gonna survive is if we harmonize
We're not alone
We're not alone oh
We're not alone
We're not alone
Reginald Lewis
The black billionaire
Before Oprah or Bob Johnson
How'd he disappear?
Conspiracy theories, UFO's in the air
I've seen it with my own two eyes
And I swear, like Warren Buffet
Real money I'm just trying to touch it
The diamond-encrusted shit, live illustrious
'Cause we was deprived of it, suffered
Now we pop to prove anything's possible
My pimp strut was invented when they whipped us
Now we diddy-bop just to show you that our strength's up
Just when niggas about to see they cut
Global warming about to burn us up
Niggas never really seen paper in this world
American blacks the teenager of this world
Give us twenty more years to grow up
Already geniuses, what I mean is this
I used to worship a certain Queens police murderer
'Til I read the words of Ivan van Sertima
He inserted something in me
That made me feel worthier
Now I spit revolution
I'm his hood interpreter
Take a look in the mirror
And see the bigger picture
It's good to be alive
It's good to be alive
Nobody is an island (is an island)
We are part of an environment (an environment)
Only way we are gonna survive (gonna survive)
Is if we harmonize (harmonize)
We're not alone yeah yeah
We're not alone were not alone
We're not alone yeah yeah
We're not alone
Yeah yeah not alone
Ayo, I'm American born, love America
Love my people love all man kind
All nationalities you know, I think it's just recent
Where everybody just started to feel like there
Was an elite group that runs everything and
Everybody else was sheep ignorant making all
Ethnicities colors and creeds niggas blind to what
Really is going on so I say take off the wool from your
Eyes out with the old America in with the new end all
Racism all injustice all oppression to poor people any
People anywhere in this planet lets come together
A new day is rising
Lyrics submitted by raekwonthechef
We're Not Alone Lyrics as written by Nasir Jones Clayton Angelo Gavin
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Royalty Network
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This is one of my favorite nas songs! how come no comments?