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.
Poor the petrol can
Around this caravan
And watch the flames take all you own
There's a girl who understands
Like the back of her two hands
She's all you need to know
'Cause you search for years but you lose everything you find
There's Braille for the deaf and a signpost for the blind
There's heaven for the cruel but the devil waits for the kind
And you follow the black bird home
Through the early winter snow
Your foot prints track you through the grass
And you ache just to smell her clothes
And her cooking down on the stove
You see her face in everyone you pass
'Cause you search for years but you lose everything you find
There's Braille for the deaf and a signpost for the blind
There's heaven for the cruel but the devil waits for the kind
And you walk down to her window
And press your face against the glass
Only to find that she is happy in his arms
'Cause you search for years but you lose everything you find
There's Braille for the deaf and a signpost for the blind
There's heaven for the cruel but the devil waits for the kind
Around this caravan
And watch the flames take all you own
There's a girl who understands
Like the back of her two hands
She's all you need to know
'Cause you search for years but you lose everything you find
There's Braille for the deaf and a signpost for the blind
There's heaven for the cruel but the devil waits for the kind
And you follow the black bird home
Through the early winter snow
Your foot prints track you through the grass
And you ache just to smell her clothes
And her cooking down on the stove
You see her face in everyone you pass
'Cause you search for years but you lose everything you find
There's Braille for the deaf and a signpost for the blind
There's heaven for the cruel but the devil waits for the kind
And you walk down to her window
And press your face against the glass
Only to find that she is happy in his arms
'Cause you search for years but you lose everything you find
There's Braille for the deaf and a signpost for the blind
There's heaven for the cruel but the devil waits for the kind
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This song and band are both great. This song has to be about a women leaving a man and taking advantage of the fact that he nearly idolizes her. Making her his whole world. The petrol can around the caravan must be a metaphor for burning down the path in life he had been following with this woman. The chores must stand for the fact that there is no direction or map to follow, given to us in life. And to him it seems those who do evil are rewarded and those who remain kind lose.
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