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.
Death let me catch my breath
Let me see what's left
Let me see what's true
Do I really want to run from my depths?
Will I have regrets?
Will I ever find you? Will
I ever find the words
That give me motive to express?
Bread will I go unfed?
Will I be that fool who rushes on in to where
Angels fear to tread? Was it me who bled
On the new death bed and there is no fear
When you're leaning on love
Those grateful dead
Someone like you
To research the meaning of love
Someone, I do
To be there when push comes to shove
I know that you know the ending numbers
Chess let me play my best
When I do regress
Let it all unwind 'cause we're never confined
To the board unless there's a second guess
Look into the sky where we all comply
With something higher than the rest my love
Sail through
Someone like you
To research the meaning of love
Someone, I do
To be there when push comes to shove
I know that you know the ending numbers
Someone like you
Sky all around fell to the ground
Now I'm a child stayed for a while
Flesh is it meaningless?
But we all protest to the last request
Is there anything you could now suggest?
Did I do my best? Did I leave it better even
Though we look to be
Just mildly obsessed with you sail through
Someone like you
To research the meaning of love
Someone, I do
To be there when push comes to shove
I know that you know the ending numbers
Someone like you to be there
Let me see what's left
Let me see what's true
Do I really want to run from my depths?
Will I have regrets?
Will I ever find you? Will
I ever find the words
That give me motive to express?
Bread will I go unfed?
Will I be that fool who rushes on in to where
Angels fear to tread? Was it me who bled
On the new death bed and there is no fear
When you're leaning on love
Those grateful dead
Someone like you
To research the meaning of love
Someone, I do
To be there when push comes to shove
I know that you know the ending numbers
Chess let me play my best
When I do regress
Let it all unwind 'cause we're never confined
To the board unless there's a second guess
Look into the sky where we all comply
With something higher than the rest my love
Sail through
Someone like you
To research the meaning of love
Someone, I do
To be there when push comes to shove
I know that you know the ending numbers
Someone like you
Sky all around fell to the ground
Now I'm a child stayed for a while
Flesh is it meaningless?
But we all protest to the last request
Is there anything you could now suggest?
Did I do my best? Did I leave it better even
Though we look to be
Just mildly obsessed with you sail through
Someone like you
To research the meaning of love
Someone, I do
To be there when push comes to shove
I know that you know the ending numbers
Someone like you to be there
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Catch My Death Lyrics as written by Anthony Kiedis Michael Peter Balzary
Lyrics © Hipgnosis Songs Group
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That chorus! Such moving melodies and commanding vocals. Anthony’s vocals are so soulful and strong, he could improve Shakespeare by covering Hamlet in a minor.
In regards of the song, I’ve only just discovered and am still deciphering the meanings.
I think he’s on a spiritual journey that he keeps finding is incomplete again and again throughout his life. Always in bloom but never fully harvested. He has so much to offer in the ways of creative thought and reflection (yeah drugs are good for that).
To me, “you” is death. The ultimate end is the final answer. Death is the time when all is done and you expect to see the results of your efforts. Anthony seems to embrace death as the point at which he’ll know the ultimate truth about every unanswered question he currently asks.
Death: the end of life is the end of anxiety, the end of the anguish and torment, the end of the struggles and the tribulations. It’s easy to forget what good you’re losing when you have so much you want to get rid of. Every clean out a garage and just wish you could toss EVERYTHING because tell be so much easier?
Life’s like cleaning a garage, it’s so easy to toss out the good when you’re trying so hard get rid of the bad