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.
Here is the soul of a man
Here in this place for the taking
Clothed in white, stand in the light
Here is the soul of a man
Time to speak with the shaman again
Conjure the jester again
Black dog in the ruins is howling my name
So here is the soul of a man
When the world was virgin
Before the coming of men
Just a solar witness
The beginning of the end
From a world of magma
To a cold rock face
The ascent of madness
And a human race
We are strange believers all of us
There are stranger truths immortal lust
We rise from slumber he calls our name
Recalls our number abide with pain
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time
If eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time
If eternity should fail
To god's illusion which I recall
Was our delusion
Before the fall
The angels come and the angels go
But the lord of light shining below
Eternal blackness beyond the stars
We think our wisdom will get that far
At the master's table the table's bare
No land of plenty, devastation, despair
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of your time
If eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line at the ending of your time
If eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of your time
If eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line at the ending of your time
If eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line at the ending of your time
If eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line at the ending of your time
If eternity should fail
Good day my name is Necropolis
I am formed of the dead
I am the harvester of the soul meat
And I suck the lives from around my bed
My own two sons I gave them breath
And I filled their living corpses with my bile
What humanity I knew I have long forgotten
For me eternity is nothing
But a short while
Here in this place for the taking
Clothed in white, stand in the light
Here is the soul of a man
Time to speak with the shaman again
Conjure the jester again
Black dog in the ruins is howling my name
So here is the soul of a man
When the world was virgin
Before the coming of men
Just a solar witness
The beginning of the end
From a world of magma
To a cold rock face
The ascent of madness
And a human race
We are strange believers all of us
There are stranger truths immortal lust
We rise from slumber he calls our name
Recalls our number abide with pain
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time
If eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of time
If eternity should fail
To god's illusion which I recall
Was our delusion
Before the fall
The angels come and the angels go
But the lord of light shining below
Eternal blackness beyond the stars
We think our wisdom will get that far
At the master's table the table's bare
No land of plenty, devastation, despair
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of your time
If eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line at the ending of your time
If eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line for the ending of your time
If eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line at the ending of your time
If eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line at the ending of your time
If eternity should fail
Reef in a sail at the edge of the world
If eternity should fail
Waiting in line at the ending of your time
If eternity should fail
Good day my name is Necropolis
I am formed of the dead
I am the harvester of the soul meat
And I suck the lives from around my bed
My own two sons I gave them breath
And I filled their living corpses with my bile
What humanity I knew I have long forgotten
For me eternity is nothing
But a short while
Lyrics submitted by SergeF2007, edited by Marquez, guilljeg
If Eternity Should Fail Lyrics as written by Bruce Dickinson
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
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