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.
This is where they rose and fell.
Things will keep to follow the same patterns.
Once ill-defined, now much-accepted,
no such real sense of anomaly.
Winds have blown away every inch-block of debris
from the rubbles of our tragic yesterdays.
Scenes will always in changing positions,
but i doubt if they are progressing and transforming.
The way we manage our lives on Earth is
the way we destroy our desirable future.
We have tried, at least we've tried
to heal ourselves and learn from the past.
Unexpected, the gazing X Factors
start to crush from the inside.
Time has washed away all these traumatic moments
the earth once had,
but will our children be free from all the wars?
Like thick black dots in continuum,
we will never erase or take them off the line.
So many nails have pierced down our wooden existence,
leaving all these black holes until it comes to an end.
Things will keep to follow the same patterns.
Once ill-defined, now much-accepted,
no such real sense of anomaly.
Winds have blown away every inch-block of debris
from the rubbles of our tragic yesterdays.
Scenes will always in changing positions,
but i doubt if they are progressing and transforming.
The way we manage our lives on Earth is
the way we destroy our desirable future.
We have tried, at least we've tried
to heal ourselves and learn from the past.
Unexpected, the gazing X Factors
start to crush from the inside.
Time has washed away all these traumatic moments
the earth once had,
but will our children be free from all the wars?
Like thick black dots in continuum,
we will never erase or take them off the line.
So many nails have pierced down our wooden existence,
leaving all these black holes until it comes to an end.
Lyrics submitted by Octavarium64
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