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.
I'm sitting on this bed i may as well be on the highway
Ocean bursts its banks and all the water's going my way
Even though you're poison babe i wouldn't even hesitate
There's a lie inside your head, inside your little heart now
Well listen nothing fits and nothing rings a bell in my head
lighting up the fire and the city's painted blood red
Even though you're poison babe i wouldn't even hesitate
Just let it go, i just, i gotta get away now
I was so jealous
I nearly ran away
i was so jealous
i really couldn't say
What was wrong with me
i had some bad disease
i was so sick for you babe
Well i didn't mean to break it i was just having a look
oh, i know i shouldn't touch, i should have never picked it up
but even though you're poison babe i wouldn't even hesitate
just let me go, i just, i got another chance now
I was so jealous
I nearly ran away
i was so jealous
i really couldn't say
What was wrong with me
i had some bad disease
i was so sick for you babe
So underneath the street lights
Oh i found your broken penknife
no, i don't wanna ask what
What you're doing by the wayside
ohhh
I was so jealous
I nearly ran away
i was so jealous
i really couldn't say
What was wrong with me
i had some bad disease
i was so sick for you babe
I was so jealous
I nearly ran away
i was so jealous
i really couldn't say
What was wrong with me
i had some bad disease
i was so sick for you babe
Ocean bursts its banks and all the water's going my way
Even though you're poison babe i wouldn't even hesitate
There's a lie inside your head, inside your little heart now
Well listen nothing fits and nothing rings a bell in my head
lighting up the fire and the city's painted blood red
Even though you're poison babe i wouldn't even hesitate
Just let it go, i just, i gotta get away now
I was so jealous
I nearly ran away
i was so jealous
i really couldn't say
What was wrong with me
i had some bad disease
i was so sick for you babe
Well i didn't mean to break it i was just having a look
oh, i know i shouldn't touch, i should have never picked it up
but even though you're poison babe i wouldn't even hesitate
just let me go, i just, i got another chance now
I was so jealous
I nearly ran away
i was so jealous
i really couldn't say
What was wrong with me
i had some bad disease
i was so sick for you babe
So underneath the street lights
Oh i found your broken penknife
no, i don't wanna ask what
What you're doing by the wayside
ohhh
I was so jealous
I nearly ran away
i was so jealous
i really couldn't say
What was wrong with me
i had some bad disease
i was so sick for you babe
I was so jealous
I nearly ran away
i was so jealous
i really couldn't say
What was wrong with me
i had some bad disease
i was so sick for you babe
Lyrics submitted by Beckle
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i've been through this song entirely: basically i dated a guy a year or so ago who was older than me and had 10x more experience, and while i really liked him i was jealous of everything he'd done and so surmounted everything around me and did A LOT of bad bad bad things to be like him. the jealousy and my attraction led me to do this. "Some bad disease" "so sick for you, babe". it was a time of tons of distress and self-hate and depression for me...
eventually we broke up.
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anyway, I found his "broken pen-knife" (his broken pride, his destroyed self-worth) and I wasn't even gonna ask what he was doing by the wayside, in such shit conditions...
you see, now? great music, love everything about this song + lisa for having made it!