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.
Crazy ass psycho city blocks street ghetto red hot
Dangerous slums woods lost ?hoods burnt spots we live in
Killing fields death fills
Concrete jungles rumbles ill
Sick projects swinging steel
Real towns around you get killed
The players in the scheme unfold and flash guns
And fill our thoughts with fuck everyone
Plots will involve actionAnd leave crooks in hiding crime on the run
Cops run around and patrol
But can't handle the vandal big psyclone
Crash wants me gone
So we all fight and die and the crazy area lives on
Welcome to wild raid zones
Where sirens will pierce your ears like deaf tones
Move fast and don't get smoked?cause echoes of a massacre flood the ghetto
Stroll the roads downtown
Where the residents are masked with sad faced clowns
Come grab your straps and get down
And drown the streets in murder surround sound
In this jail cell we call hell and dwell
In well kept project homes built to tilt what's realWe manage to kill any chance with true skillImprisoned until we give our lives as payment for bail
We will feel the sting misery sings about a king
Who brings angels with stripped wings
Fallen rings turned cliques who click arms in wrong street ?nam
Destroy calm and bring fatal winds that birth harm
Create alarm by dawn they're releasing the bomb
And we?re unaware, numb, entranced like shakes charmed
Fatal bond between us and bullets
Give us better gods for premature death than russian roulette
And who'll pull it raw dog analog, mind fog, thoughts clogged
Crooked action ration is camouflaged
Passion is sabotaged we?re livings heartless
But there doing dirt the one?s who spark this
Crazy ass psycho city blocks street ghetto red hot
Dangerous slums woods lost ?hoods burnt spots we live inKilling fields death fills
Concrete jungles rumbles ill
Sick projects swinging steel
Real towns around you get killed
Dangerous slums woods lost ?hoods burnt spots we live in
Killing fields death fills
Concrete jungles rumbles ill
Sick projects swinging steel
Real towns around you get killed
The players in the scheme unfold and flash guns
And fill our thoughts with fuck everyone
Plots will involve actionAnd leave crooks in hiding crime on the run
Cops run around and patrol
But can't handle the vandal big psyclone
Crash wants me gone
So we all fight and die and the crazy area lives on
Welcome to wild raid zones
Where sirens will pierce your ears like deaf tones
Move fast and don't get smoked?cause echoes of a massacre flood the ghetto
Stroll the roads downtown
Where the residents are masked with sad faced clowns
Come grab your straps and get down
And drown the streets in murder surround sound
In this jail cell we call hell and dwell
In well kept project homes built to tilt what's realWe manage to kill any chance with true skillImprisoned until we give our lives as payment for bail
We will feel the sting misery sings about a king
Who brings angels with stripped wings
Fallen rings turned cliques who click arms in wrong street ?nam
Destroy calm and bring fatal winds that birth harm
Create alarm by dawn they're releasing the bomb
And we?re unaware, numb, entranced like shakes charmed
Fatal bond between us and bullets
Give us better gods for premature death than russian roulette
And who'll pull it raw dog analog, mind fog, thoughts clogged
Crooked action ration is camouflaged
Passion is sabotaged we?re livings heartless
But there doing dirt the one?s who spark this
Crazy ass psycho city blocks street ghetto red hot
Dangerous slums woods lost ?hoods burnt spots we live inKilling fields death fills
Concrete jungles rumbles ill
Sick projects swinging steel
Real towns around you get killed
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The Crazy Area Lyrics as written by Jack Gonzalez Gustavo Gonzalez
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