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.
No truer plea has ever been, than what, through David, we have seen.
His turn from a life of frustration to embrace love's condemnation.
Better to let love lie than have to see it die.
It's better to be alone than feel your heart turn to stone.
The flower grows just for the seed as the honey's song composes the bee.
Shouldn't a free man's soul rise above these ravenous designs of love?
Better to be born blind than see and then lose sight.
Better a desolate peace than to fight with your memories.
So take my heart with you to the grave, it just pumps cold blood through my veins.
I lost it all in fate's game.
Only the devil remembers my name.
Only a foolish heart concedes to fate and the trials and turns that it dictates.
The only love that will never die is the love that you always deny.
Like a barb it clings, the loss forever stings,
The pain will never leave, love is a cruel disease.
Like a wick that holds to the flame, the path you took to her started the blaze.
The match you made is to blame, the steps to love and death were the same.
Now that you've loved and lost, would you repay the cost?
A price so severe, if you had never loved her she'd be here.
So take my heart with you to the grave, it just pumps cold blood through my veins.
I lost it all in fate's game.
Only the devil remembers my name.
So take my heart with you to the grave, it just pumps cold blood through my veins.
I lost it all in fate's game.
Only the devil remembers my name.
His turn from a life of frustration to embrace love's condemnation.
Better to let love lie than have to see it die.
It's better to be alone than feel your heart turn to stone.
The flower grows just for the seed as the honey's song composes the bee.
Shouldn't a free man's soul rise above these ravenous designs of love?
Better to be born blind than see and then lose sight.
Better a desolate peace than to fight with your memories.
So take my heart with you to the grave, it just pumps cold blood through my veins.
I lost it all in fate's game.
Only the devil remembers my name.
Only a foolish heart concedes to fate and the trials and turns that it dictates.
The only love that will never die is the love that you always deny.
Like a barb it clings, the loss forever stings,
The pain will never leave, love is a cruel disease.
Like a wick that holds to the flame, the path you took to her started the blaze.
The match you made is to blame, the steps to love and death were the same.
Now that you've loved and lost, would you repay the cost?
A price so severe, if you had never loved her she'd be here.
So take my heart with you to the grave, it just pumps cold blood through my veins.
I lost it all in fate's game.
Only the devil remembers my name.
So take my heart with you to the grave, it just pumps cold blood through my veins.
I lost it all in fate's game.
Only the devil remembers my name.
Lyrics submitted by HelloAlice
Remember My Name Lyrics as written by Benjamin Peter Warden Cook Damian Abraham
Lyrics © Hipgnosis Songs Group
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Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
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