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.
It gets no better when you're caught up in the earthquake weather
Keep your eye on the storm come and get us
When the shit goes down we're all down 'cause we're fed up
At how the system is set up
Breaking through my storm sick weather
Psyclone stroll my zone come on enter
Government punks think their world's a lot better
But it's regular men that run the country forever
Who got the power, the law, really?
Never!
Thought I'd go to war with my city
Carry out plans advance in the dark
Tactics trace you with white chalk
Crash hits and my troops get marked
I'm in a danger zone when I walk
Split seconds in time life become short
Courtesy of LA P.D psycho
Inhaling white coke straight snort
Life is a contact sport weather report
The sun will be smitten
You understand what we're transmitting?
Under the vanishing ozone
Melting like a snow cone
Listen before we come to not existing
The new system
Sets up the weather to splice us
Wipe the dust off mental vices
Snipe devices in this age of crisis
The price of being decisive is choking
Welcome to no hope land
Where two words can't be spoken
That's prevent this
So they're frozen like cryogenics
In the driest of ice scaling global heights
With hollow sights on scientists' heads like lice
Who have patternized more than just mice
Strike to kill the present but the present is this
Try to fight a dead end that's sent through fists
Mind computer list of motives
Electric convulsive through the voltage
Prime supreme truth cult
Rhyme revolt
Forecasting the act of action
To flatten the state of defense
Info prints static
To unpulsate the black magic that breathes
Believe in what we ourselves conceive
For us it must and it will happen
Destruction before creation the war of capping
It gets no better when you're caught up
In the earthquake weather
Keep your eye on the storm come and get us
When the shit goes down we're all down
Cause we're fed up
At how the system is set up
Keep your eye on the storm come and get us
When the shit goes down we're all down 'cause we're fed up
At how the system is set up
Breaking through my storm sick weather
Psyclone stroll my zone come on enter
Government punks think their world's a lot better
But it's regular men that run the country forever
Who got the power, the law, really?
Never!
Thought I'd go to war with my city
Carry out plans advance in the dark
Tactics trace you with white chalk
Crash hits and my troops get marked
I'm in a danger zone when I walk
Split seconds in time life become short
Courtesy of LA P.D psycho
Inhaling white coke straight snort
Life is a contact sport weather report
The sun will be smitten
You understand what we're transmitting?
Under the vanishing ozone
Melting like a snow cone
Listen before we come to not existing
The new system
Sets up the weather to splice us
Wipe the dust off mental vices
Snipe devices in this age of crisis
The price of being decisive is choking
Welcome to no hope land
Where two words can't be spoken
That's prevent this
So they're frozen like cryogenics
In the driest of ice scaling global heights
With hollow sights on scientists' heads like lice
Who have patternized more than just mice
Strike to kill the present but the present is this
Try to fight a dead end that's sent through fists
Mind computer list of motives
Electric convulsive through the voltage
Prime supreme truth cult
Rhyme revolt
Forecasting the act of action
To flatten the state of defense
Info prints static
To unpulsate the black magic that breathes
Believe in what we ourselves conceive
For us it must and it will happen
Destruction before creation the war of capping
It gets no better when you're caught up
In the earthquake weather
Keep your eye on the storm come and get us
When the shit goes down we're all down
Cause we're fed up
At how the system is set up
Lyrics submitted by ACEofLONELYHEARTS
Earthquake Weather Lyrics as written by Gustavo Gonzalez Carlos Vargas
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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