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.
As the past prayed
Ending heartbreak
All the pain, you cried you said you lost your hope
Rites have spoken
Clawing freedom
Now I wake
I see things in a different light
Oh my stained sheets
Hatred with peace
Now I know this fear
Oh I have met those eyes
Can you feel it?
Ever watchful
Cold kept creature
Dying by me in the night
You could taste blood
Break your own world
Find the path and walk it onto yesterday
Where all my tears stay
Darkened new day
The time has come and now I see new life today
In your bedroom
Fate that met doom
All the moments crushed
Oh have I met my time?
At those great walls
Where I now fall
Take the trurth and shape it into sorrow
Now the night howls past my old ways
Candles lit the road
Life sent through broken glass
Only feeling, crippled my veins
Wake up in the dark and feel it make my mark
Oh this cruel game
What do I say?
Holding onto chance
Son, you will fade away
Now a new day
Love I hear you say
Mortal coil, oh mortal coil
Worse than all this precious pain
Crowns of fear
Crowns of fear
Worse than all this precious pain
Crowns of time
Crowns of time
Worse than all this precious pain
Crowns of hope
Crowns of hope
Worse than all this precious pain
Crowns of love
Crowns of love
Worse than all this precious pain
Crowns of death
Crowns of death
Worse than all this precious pain
Crowns of light
Crowns of light
Worse than all this precious pain
Crowns of dark
Crowns of dark
Worse than all my precious pain
Without crowns
I hold the sound
Worse than all my precious pain
Without crowns, I am found
Worse than all my precious pain
Ending heartbreak
All the pain, you cried you said you lost your hope
Rites have spoken
Clawing freedom
Now I wake
I see things in a different light
Oh my stained sheets
Hatred with peace
Now I know this fear
Oh I have met those eyes
Can you feel it?
Ever watchful
Cold kept creature
Dying by me in the night
You could taste blood
Break your own world
Find the path and walk it onto yesterday
Where all my tears stay
Darkened new day
The time has come and now I see new life today
In your bedroom
Fate that met doom
All the moments crushed
Oh have I met my time?
At those great walls
Where I now fall
Take the trurth and shape it into sorrow
Now the night howls past my old ways
Candles lit the road
Life sent through broken glass
Only feeling, crippled my veins
Wake up in the dark and feel it make my mark
Oh this cruel game
What do I say?
Holding onto chance
Son, you will fade away
Now a new day
Love I hear you say
Mortal coil, oh mortal coil
Worse than all this precious pain
Crowns of fear
Crowns of fear
Worse than all this precious pain
Crowns of time
Crowns of time
Worse than all this precious pain
Crowns of hope
Crowns of hope
Worse than all this precious pain
Crowns of love
Crowns of love
Worse than all this precious pain
Crowns of death
Crowns of death
Worse than all this precious pain
Crowns of light
Crowns of light
Worse than all this precious pain
Crowns of dark
Crowns of dark
Worse than all my precious pain
Without crowns
I hold the sound
Worse than all my precious pain
Without crowns, I am found
Worse than all my precious pain
Lyrics submitted by rhino76
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