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.
Catch ‘Em By Surprise
Catch ‘Em By Surprise
Catch ‘Em By Surprise
Catch ‘Em By Surprise
Catch ‘em by surprise (x3)
Let’s go
Bounce to the beat, people hands up
Everybody in the place stand up
And jump it, shake it, bust the club
[..]
And there’s nothing you can do to hold ‘em off
And when the beautiful women be showing off
We’re ’bout to cause a riot in this house
Till we hear the fire alarms going off
We got ‘em watching
Do we really got them all in a trance?
(Aoooww)
We got ‘em watching
Do we really got them all in a trance?
(Aoowww)
We got ‘em hypnotized
We got ‘em hypnotized
We got ‘em hypnotized
We got ‘em hypnotized
[x2]
Everytime time I come in
And I stumble on the feeling
And we lit the fires
So I hope you know we got our run on
Cause you gotta know that when we get
[..]
Ain’t gotta question if you gotta (C’mon)
And hurt ‘em up (Give it to ‘em)
Let them up (Let me do them)
Spark another match and let it flame
Get your dumb on!
Everybody get ready now
Everytime I do what I do
Bust’ ryhmes
Make the people wanna (C’mon)
Let’s go cause you know we go’n fly (Go’n fly)
Get [..]
Everybody get, get
Now I wanna see all a my people form a line
If ya with me wanna see ya just (C’mon)
With Diplo and Tiesto
We about to create a fiasco
Now get your club on
And my people really wit’ me then (C’mon)
We got ‘em hypnotized
We got ‘em hypnotized
We got ‘em hypnotized
We got ‘em hypnotized
[x2]
Let’s catch ‘em by surprise
Let’s catch ‘em by surprise
Let’s catch ‘em by surprise
Let’s catch ‘em by surprise
[x4]
We got ‘em hypnotized
We got ‘em hypnotized
We got ‘em hypnotized
We got ‘em hypnotized
[x2]
Catch ‘Em By Surprise
Catch ‘Em By Surprise
Catch ‘Em By Surprise
Catch ‘em by surprise (x3)
Let’s go
Bounce to the beat, people hands up
Everybody in the place stand up
And jump it, shake it, bust the club
[..]
And there’s nothing you can do to hold ‘em off
And when the beautiful women be showing off
We’re ’bout to cause a riot in this house
Till we hear the fire alarms going off
We got ‘em watching
Do we really got them all in a trance?
(Aoooww)
We got ‘em watching
Do we really got them all in a trance?
(Aoowww)
We got ‘em hypnotized
We got ‘em hypnotized
We got ‘em hypnotized
We got ‘em hypnotized
[x2]
Everytime time I come in
And I stumble on the feeling
And we lit the fires
So I hope you know we got our run on
Cause you gotta know that when we get
[..]
Ain’t gotta question if you gotta (C’mon)
And hurt ‘em up (Give it to ‘em)
Let them up (Let me do them)
Spark another match and let it flame
Get your dumb on!
Everybody get ready now
Everytime I do what I do
Bust’ ryhmes
Make the people wanna (C’mon)
Let’s go cause you know we go’n fly (Go’n fly)
Get [..]
Everybody get, get
Now I wanna see all a my people form a line
If ya with me wanna see ya just (C’mon)
With Diplo and Tiesto
We about to create a fiasco
Now get your club on
And my people really wit’ me then (C’mon)
We got ‘em hypnotized
We got ‘em hypnotized
We got ‘em hypnotized
We got ‘em hypnotized
[x2]
Let’s catch ‘em by surprise
Let’s catch ‘em by surprise
Let’s catch ‘em by surprise
Let’s catch ‘em by surprise
[x4]
We got ‘em hypnotized
We got ‘em hypnotized
We got ‘em hypnotized
We got ‘em hypnotized
[x2]
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