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.
Beyond love
The first thing that I do before I get into your house
I'm gonna tear off all the petals
From the rose that's in your mouth
Beyond love
You wanted to find Elvis and I didn't understand
They take the simple things inside you
And put nightmares in your hands
Beyond love
This man comes to me
Heartbreak did this
He was made to believe
That he should live without it
All I know's what I see
No change in this
Visions born into dreams
Of a world left without it
We really wanna know
We really do agree
We really do agree
We really wanna know
The last thing that she sees before they turn off all the lights
Was there a man up in the corner with the spiders made of light
We really wanna know
Beyond love
All I know's what I see
And I can't live without this
Could you ever believe?
Beyond love
I really wanna know
I really wanna know
The first thing that I do before I get into your house
I'm gonna tear off all the petals
From the rose that's in your mouth
Beyond love
You wanted to find Elvis and I didn't understand
They take the simple things inside you
And put nightmares in your hands
Beyond love
This man comes to me
Heartbreak did this
He was made to believe
That he should live without it
All I know's what I see
No change in this
Visions born into dreams
Of a world left without it
We really wanna know
We really do agree
We really do agree
We really wanna know
The last thing that she sees before they turn off all the lights
Was there a man up in the corner with the spiders made of light
We really wanna know
Beyond love
All I know's what I see
And I can't live without this
Could you ever believe?
Beyond love
I really wanna know
I really wanna know
Lyrics submitted by meowmeow82, edited by dlubey
Beyond Love Lyrics as written by Victoria Garance Alixe Legrand Alex Kristian Scally
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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Beyond love The first thing I do before I get into your house I’m gonna tear off all the petals from the rose that’s in your mouth
(She wants to remove the artifice and cliches of love, and dig deeper by ripping away the facade of romance)
Beyond love You wanted to find Elvis and I didn’t understand They take the simple things inside you and put nightmares in your hands
(She uses another cliche of romance here—the figure of Elvis as a heartthrob. His good looks, his swinging hips. But who is the real and aching human behind this slick image? Where is the genuine love behind the plushy red velvet hearts which are marketed to us on Valentine’s Day? The nightmare in this case refers to the gross superficiality which is often called love by an almost purely materialistic culture)
Beyond love This thing comes to me: Heartbreak did this He was made to believe That he should live without it
(Now it seems she is speaking more directly about a real person she loves—a man who cannot love her back because maybe he has fallen victim to the superficiality of another's love and no longer trusts it can be genuine)
All I know is what I see No changing this Visions born in the dreams of a world left without it
(She is defiant against his apathetic nature towards love. She will not shift her viewpoint. She will not accept the idea of a reality in which real love does not exist. She has tasted real love--indeed she knows it beyond its cliches and wants to convince this person in her life of its reality)
We really want to know We really do breathe We really do breathe We really want to know
(It sounds now as if she has shifted her perspective once more to that of all the creatures on Earth--we want to know if life beyond real love is endurable? What would this world look like without it?)
The last thing that she sees before they turn off all lights Was there a net up in the corner with the spiders made of lies?
(This part fascinates me most. This image of a net of spiders in the corner of a room harkens back to the monsters many of us see in childhood before we shut our eyes to go to sleep. We imagine things in the dark that aren’t really there. But we believe them to be there, and so they become our reality and are able to haunt and torment us with their illusory though very “real feeling” nature. Just like love. We can believe the gross fantasy and be reduced to emotional rubble through its lies, or we can see if it is possible to understand what love is beyond its many false and rather terrifying faces.
We really want to know — Beyond love? All I know is what I see And you can’t live without this Could you ever believe — Beyond love?
I really want to know I really want to know
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