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.
Daniel, when I first saw you
I knew that you had
A flame in your heart
And under wild blue skies
Marble movie skies
I found a home in your eyes
We would never be apart
And when the fires came
The smell of cinders and rain
Perfumed almost everything
We laughed and laughed and laughed
And in a golden-blue car
You took me to
The darkest place you knew
And set fire to my heart
When I run in the dark (Daniel)
Into a place that's lost (Daniel)
Under a sheet of rain in my heart (Daniel)
I dream of home...
But in a goodbye bed
With my arms around your neck
Into our mouths the tears crept
Just kids in the eye of the storm
And as my house spun round
My dreams pulled me from the ground
Forever to search for the flame
For home again!
For home again!
I knew that you had
A flame in your heart
And under wild blue skies
Marble movie skies
I found a home in your eyes
We would never be apart
And when the fires came
The smell of cinders and rain
Perfumed almost everything
We laughed and laughed and laughed
And in a golden-blue car
You took me to
The darkest place you knew
And set fire to my heart
When I run in the dark (Daniel)
Into a place that's lost (Daniel)
Under a sheet of rain in my heart (Daniel)
I dream of home...
But in a goodbye bed
With my arms around your neck
Into our mouths the tears crept
Just kids in the eye of the storm
And as my house spun round
My dreams pulled me from the ground
Forever to search for the flame
For home again!
For home again!
Lyrics submitted by missme, edited by Stockholm, NatStaneck, MartyH
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I agree that this song seems to be about first love that was lost but at a slightly different angle. I feel like, obviously this song is about her first crush/love Daniel Larusso. But of course, he wasn't real. She didn't personally know him, but in admiring from afar, he felt like "home" to her, like she knew his soul. I feel like this song is about trying to find the real version of Daniel in someone else. Like in the last verse with the "goodbye bed", it seems like she's saying goodbye to the unrealistic crush she has on this fictional persona and is realizing she needs to find someone in the real world to love.
"Just kids in the eye of the storm And as my head spun 'round My dreams pulled me from the ground Forever to search for the flame For home again For home again" So she realizes that her idealistic crush on this celebrity was childish but now she seems determined to find someone in her own life that reminds her of the soul and "fire" that first attracted her. This can be attributed to everyone's first love because I feel like after that person (if you ended it when you didn't want to) is the person you compare every love/crush afterwards to and it is the hardest battle to give up looking for the perfect replacement. She describes it so beautifully by comparing it to a child crush. The lyrics and music are so haunting and dreamlike. I want to live in this song.
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