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.
[Hook:]
All we have is right now
All we have is right now
[Verse 1: MGK]
Uh, uh, yeah, Staring out into the unknown
Voices in the wind telling me to come home, but I'm scared
Scared that all this time I've been gone I'll open up the door and my little daughter will be grown
And I'm cold, tell me why I'm so cold?
Probably cause a shoulder turns every night that I'm on the road
Probably why I can't smile every time that I'm on the phone
And why I'm acting so wild every time that I'm alone
Save me! I suffocate myself inside the bed trying to cut the circulation
Of these thoughts inside my head like
"Do I hate me? or do I hate them? " Either way I've held grudges since I was holding a pen
My father had me thinking my cousin was dead just to hide me from the truth
How can I look at him again? But this is life, and in life we learning to live
And when the past dies this where it begins cause
[Hook:]
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
[Verse 2: MGK]
Question, What if tomorrow never comes and everything you said today couldn't be undone?
Cause' all it takes is a bullet from one gun to take another's moment away from their one love. I know
See I was just an only child growing up, Just frowns cause' I never seen a smile growing up
But you? You were a friend, always down growing up
Give the word, knew you would've blown trial growing up
Fuck! How could we let all this petty shit blind us?
How the fuck did we let the devil find us?
See, we were supposed to be best friends till' the end
You promised! How'd it take that fucking night to remind us?
I only said I hated you cause you're the only one that's ever honest
Man I said I was wrong, let's get beyond this! But it's crazy
Cause I never thought my text apologizing would be the reason that you died driving. Damn
[Hook:]
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
[Bridge: MGK]
Hey, and when the sky turns grey, what you gonna do when your blues still stay?
Tried living the dream, yeah, but you still awake
Anything is possible though, cause rules still break...
Hey, said when the sky turns grey, what you gonna do when your blues still stay?
Anything is possible cause rules still break so when your dream comes don't wake... yeah
[Hook:]
All we have is right now, All we have is right now
All we have is right now, All we have is right now
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now
All we have is right now
[Verse 1: MGK]
Uh, uh, yeah, Staring out into the unknown
Voices in the wind telling me to come home, but I'm scared
Scared that all this time I've been gone I'll open up the door and my little daughter will be grown
And I'm cold, tell me why I'm so cold?
Probably cause a shoulder turns every night that I'm on the road
Probably why I can't smile every time that I'm on the phone
And why I'm acting so wild every time that I'm alone
Save me! I suffocate myself inside the bed trying to cut the circulation
Of these thoughts inside my head like
"Do I hate me? or do I hate them? " Either way I've held grudges since I was holding a pen
My father had me thinking my cousin was dead just to hide me from the truth
How can I look at him again? But this is life, and in life we learning to live
And when the past dies this where it begins cause
[Hook:]
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
[Verse 2: MGK]
Question, What if tomorrow never comes and everything you said today couldn't be undone?
Cause' all it takes is a bullet from one gun to take another's moment away from their one love. I know
See I was just an only child growing up, Just frowns cause' I never seen a smile growing up
But you? You were a friend, always down growing up
Give the word, knew you would've blown trial growing up
Fuck! How could we let all this petty shit blind us?
How the fuck did we let the devil find us?
See, we were supposed to be best friends till' the end
You promised! How'd it take that fucking night to remind us?
I only said I hated you cause you're the only one that's ever honest
Man I said I was wrong, let's get beyond this! But it's crazy
Cause I never thought my text apologizing would be the reason that you died driving. Damn
[Hook:]
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
[Bridge: MGK]
Hey, and when the sky turns grey, what you gonna do when your blues still stay?
Tried living the dream, yeah, but you still awake
Anything is possible though, cause rules still break...
Hey, said when the sky turns grey, what you gonna do when your blues still stay?
Anything is possible cause rules still break so when your dream comes don't wake... yeah
[Hook:]
All we have is right now, All we have is right now
All we have is right now, All we have is right now
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
All we have is right now, Go hard or go home
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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