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.
Dragging a lake
Find the owner of the voice
Zip in the bank
And drove up across the noise
Examine the hairline
As archives in the strands
You turn into something
That puts the weakness in my hands
I see what I suppose
I breathe what I dispose
Black wheels turn yellow in the sand
I steal every idea that I can
Instead of a person, a shadow's in the lake
Instead of coercion, she blows his hand-grenade
And I have an aversion to dying in a car
And I reach corrosion, a suitcase in the dark
Find the owner of the voice
Zip in the bank
And drove up across the noise
Examine the hairline
As archives in the strands
You turn into something
That puts the weakness in my hands
I see what I suppose
I breathe what I dispose
Black wheels turn yellow in the sand
I steal every idea that I can
Instead of a person, a shadow's in the lake
Instead of coercion, she blows his hand-grenade
And I have an aversion to dying in a car
And I reach corrosion, a suitcase in the dark
Lyrics submitted by pliskin0100
No Twilight Within The Courts Of The Sun Lyrics as written by Steven John Wilson
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
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Examine the hairline His archives in the strands You're telling me something That puts the weakness in my hands
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