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.
The girl and the ghost
Sit in the corner
The girl and the ghost
Seem to have a lot to say
The girl and the ghost
Haven't seen each other in three years
The girl and the ghost
A few simple seconds slipped away
Slipped away
The ghost and the girl
Commonly connected by something bigger
A phenomenon that sets off the eternal trigger
And lets the light through that usually goes around
And around and around
The girl and the ghost
Meet in the corridor
The girl and the ghost
They touch fingers and walk right through
The girl and the ghost
Feel so familiar and fearless
The girl and the ghost
Know each other like other people do
Other people do, other people do
The ghost and the girl
Commonly connected by something bigger
A phenomenon that sets off the eternal trigger
And lets the light through that usually
Ghost and the girl
Commonly connected by, well, something bigger
A phenomenon that sets off the eternal trigger
And lets the light through that usually goes around
And around and around
Usually goes around and around and around
Usually goes around
Goes around, it goes around, it goes around
It usually goes around
It goes around, it goes around, it goes around
It usually goes around
It goes around, it goes around, it goes around
It usually goes around
It goes around, it goes around, it goes around
It usually goes around
It goes around, it goes around, it goes around
It usually goes around
Sit in the corner
The girl and the ghost
Seem to have a lot to say
The girl and the ghost
Haven't seen each other in three years
The girl and the ghost
A few simple seconds slipped away
Slipped away
The ghost and the girl
Commonly connected by something bigger
A phenomenon that sets off the eternal trigger
And lets the light through that usually goes around
And around and around
The girl and the ghost
Meet in the corridor
The girl and the ghost
They touch fingers and walk right through
The girl and the ghost
Feel so familiar and fearless
The girl and the ghost
Know each other like other people do
Other people do, other people do
The ghost and the girl
Commonly connected by something bigger
A phenomenon that sets off the eternal trigger
And lets the light through that usually
Ghost and the girl
Commonly connected by, well, something bigger
A phenomenon that sets off the eternal trigger
And lets the light through that usually goes around
And around and around
Usually goes around and around and around
Usually goes around
Goes around, it goes around, it goes around
It usually goes around
It goes around, it goes around, it goes around
It usually goes around
It goes around, it goes around, it goes around
It usually goes around
It goes around, it goes around, it goes around
It usually goes around
It goes around, it goes around, it goes around
It usually goes around
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Dreamwalker
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I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
Mountain Song
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
Awesome song. I'm surprised no one's commented. Anyone know what its about?
this is my personal interpretation, not sure how accurate it is...
i think the song is about the body and soul of a girl (probably herself).
"haven't seen each other in three years" - we loose sight of who we are (soul)
"commonly connected by something bigger, set off of the eternal trigger" - metaphysical philosophy
"meet in the corridor, touch fingers and walk right though, feels so famililar and fearless" - finally find who we are and what we're looking for
"the light that usually goes around" - our body's way of being the representation of our soul's energy
Personally, I think the ghost is the girl's old lover (one that's about to pass away). They can't stay together for long but they try to embrace the time they have together.
I've always liked this song and for years thought the ghost was a lover from an adulterous affair. Today while listening to it again It occured to me that the ghost is addiction. How we can overcome our addictions, but if the setting is just right it is easy to slip back into them, whatever the addiction is.
For me this song has to do with the girl`s personal relationship to god, to herself and to her ancestors. The girl is a very sensitive Person, she feels things, that other people are probably not able to feel.
It has a lot to do with energy, and for me the song is very spiritual.
If I was the girl this song would be about me and my grandfather, who died when I was very little, but to whom I always felt and still feel a very strong connection.
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