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 am just a detail falling right out of the sky
I am a piece of nothing and my soul can never die
That's the reason why I came back today:
to effect the ancient prophecy
My time levitation was the key
One step into nowhere to see
Finding sketches of Gethsemane
here in "Sundown Factory"
No way
No way out
No way out
Born in a time where my God means just creation,
and where death alternates with the sovereign of hell
Let me change things today
Hey you, are you waiting for the end?
The Sanhedrin says you will die here today,
but why me? Why's not anybody else?
Finding the way out of time to Jerusalem
My life is a flame,
and her pale light shines on sadness
of my grey solitude
that made a something out of me
Just a thing out of me
Hey you, tell me this is just a dream!
Why can't you say we are leaving today,
and why me? Why not anybody else?
I'm so afraid on my way to Jerusalem
Turn the navigation gear,
just for another thousand years,
and then my spheroid will fall down
in another world
Am I losing my mind, losing my mind?
I have waited for somebody, somebody wrong
"The Seraphic Clockwork" says:
"And he will find the Babylonian apiary
of petrified books in the serpent delta of a Styx"
He came, the pristine sin to turn,
betrayed him for quicksilver,
and then he kissed him
Just a kiss, a Judas kiss, and then he kissed him
Just a kiss, a Judas kiss, just a question
And then he kissed him
Time's an equinoxium, and I'm the devil's key
to save a paradoxon with infernal perfidy
Hey you, tell me this is just a dream!
Why can't you say we are leaving today,
and why me? Why not anybody else?
Please say I'm late on my way to Jerusalem
And there is no place left to hide
for me, the holy parasite,
because my unfulfilled sacrament
has changed time and must change time
All kinds of details falling right out of the sky
"Not Unimmortal" if your father let you die
God's time levitation found a way
to make you a savior today
I'm just a lie
I'm not a friend, just a sick corrosive saint
Now you walk your way all alone
to carry the sins of the world
I came to dethrone and to betray you,
so they crucify you for another life,
a better day to free the world
(God's time levitator found a way)
To heal all kinds of things
(To make you a savior today)
And take all souls on board
(Me, the parallel Judas will burn)
You die to save us all
(I'm starting the engines, because I)
Never will return (x3)
I am a piece of nothing and my soul can never die
That's the reason why I came back today:
to effect the ancient prophecy
My time levitation was the key
One step into nowhere to see
Finding sketches of Gethsemane
here in "Sundown Factory"
No way
No way out
No way out
Born in a time where my God means just creation,
and where death alternates with the sovereign of hell
Let me change things today
Hey you, are you waiting for the end?
The Sanhedrin says you will die here today,
but why me? Why's not anybody else?
Finding the way out of time to Jerusalem
My life is a flame,
and her pale light shines on sadness
of my grey solitude
that made a something out of me
Just a thing out of me
Hey you, tell me this is just a dream!
Why can't you say we are leaving today,
and why me? Why not anybody else?
I'm so afraid on my way to Jerusalem
Turn the navigation gear,
just for another thousand years,
and then my spheroid will fall down
in another world
Am I losing my mind, losing my mind?
I have waited for somebody, somebody wrong
"The Seraphic Clockwork" says:
"And he will find the Babylonian apiary
of petrified books in the serpent delta of a Styx"
He came, the pristine sin to turn,
betrayed him for quicksilver,
and then he kissed him
Just a kiss, a Judas kiss, and then he kissed him
Just a kiss, a Judas kiss, just a question
And then he kissed him
Time's an equinoxium, and I'm the devil's key
to save a paradoxon with infernal perfidy
Hey you, tell me this is just a dream!
Why can't you say we are leaving today,
and why me? Why not anybody else?
Please say I'm late on my way to Jerusalem
And there is no place left to hide
for me, the holy parasite,
because my unfulfilled sacrament
has changed time and must change time
All kinds of details falling right out of the sky
"Not Unimmortal" if your father let you die
God's time levitation found a way
to make you a savior today
I'm just a lie
I'm not a friend, just a sick corrosive saint
Now you walk your way all alone
to carry the sins of the world
I came to dethrone and to betray you,
so they crucify you for another life,
a better day to free the world
(God's time levitator found a way)
To heal all kinds of things
(To make you a savior today)
And take all souls on board
(Me, the parallel Judas will burn)
You die to save us all
(I'm starting the engines, because I)
Never will return (x3)
Lyrics submitted by Octavarium64
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