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.
I don't hear you speak anymore
You're fading away
Today I was a weightless gust of easy southern air
I don't feel your heat any more
You never could stay
I dropped the awkward chains of earthly promises
I drifted and my emptiness was blissfully aware
that all that mattered of myself was there
I thought that I knew who you were
But how could I know
Today I was a lonely rusted wreck beside the road
You're always searching for
Things you carry with you
and every life that passed by mired me deeper
I waited for the rain to pour and wash me clean and cold
or for the loving earth to take me whole
Each day I wait for some new shape to take me till I know
what is the shape that truth will take, what will it show
Waiting I graze the sky
grasping all I pass by
Fall, lose all, all falls away:When you started dreaming
I thought it would be fleeting
Was it a naive thing
Thinking we would always be
You've lost your face now
You take up no space now
You've turned around, shut down
Without a goodbye, without making a sound
I come and go and never know when I will find my way
But I will trust in life and lust to lead me day by day
Each day I wait for some new shape to take me till I am
The honesty I long to be; where I began
You're fading away
Today I was a weightless gust of easy southern air
I don't feel your heat any more
You never could stay
I dropped the awkward chains of earthly promises
I drifted and my emptiness was blissfully aware
that all that mattered of myself was there
I thought that I knew who you were
But how could I know
Today I was a lonely rusted wreck beside the road
You're always searching for
Things you carry with you
and every life that passed by mired me deeper
I waited for the rain to pour and wash me clean and cold
or for the loving earth to take me whole
Each day I wait for some new shape to take me till I know
what is the shape that truth will take, what will it show
Waiting I graze the sky
grasping all I pass by
Fall, lose all, all falls away:When you started dreaming
I thought it would be fleeting
Was it a naive thing
Thinking we would always be
You've lost your face now
You take up no space now
You've turned around, shut down
Without a goodbye, without making a sound
I come and go and never know when I will find my way
But I will trust in life and lust to lead me day by day
Each day I wait for some new shape to take me till I am
The honesty I long to be; where I began
Lyrics submitted by sokorny
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