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.
You didn't think you could forget so easily, did you?
I see everything
I know everything
I am everything
You can't control what happens to you
But still you try
Who do I call tonight
Who'd I call tonight?
You I call for
You might call tonight
You like talkin' like you might fall tonight you like
Lookin' through this UI
Nigga finna turned into a user
A nigga just subverted to the future
I'm certain your abuser's concern is somethin' new sir
It's not you so I'm hopin' you don't choose her, her
Cuz I need you to lose sleep
I need you to move
I need you to use
I need you confused
I need kunta swooned
I need coupes and booze
I need you to prove me, right, right?
Be a slave to the wave
Party never change or be taken away and it hardly ever break or brace in the ways
In the outside was the upside to the downside
Upside down look around for the ground I
Wanna fall from the balcony, blood from the drugs like alchemy, how can we slow down, down
I wanna have my grandmother proud of me
Ups and the downs never doubted the alchemy out till we outtie you bout it then bounce with my vice
Why didn't you do it?
Vice
Are you afriad?
Vice
Is that so?
Vice
Who are my next two?
Who are my next two?
Who is my ex for?
Who is my next to?
Or who is my next for?
It feels like connect four
Feel like I test you
Feel I accept war
We might impress you
Feel I should stress more
Feel like my best form
Realize my real life has turned into ash
Shovin' the shogun and show up to show off and dopin' on xan and I don't know your man so you single
And after you mingled we went to the back to the legal shit man it was evil
I just send you right back to your people I'm mad that I keep you this close
Maybe I'm being dramatic
Maybe you being deceitful
I know you needed my love like I needed your body to please me so this shit is equal
You bitch is you just gonna sleep
Fuck then you tucked in the sheets
Man this is somethin' to see
Drunk and was crying all up in my ear how you wanted for something complete but there's nothing to me
I left my heart in the sky but my blood keeps on pumpin' just leave, vice
She can't save you
You can't save you
I won't save you
You should stop trying
Livin' in the maze
Trippin' out the matrix
Slippin' out the days in sickenin' the days
Whippin' when the days end
Nigga got a quarter tank of gas so I hit it bitch I never been afraid
Do 150
Like there's somethin' against me
Like it's comin' to get me if I don't run from the city
If I don't run from a suddenness like I got somthin' I'm supplemented with sufference and something man I'm summed up and deadly
I been gone a long time, time
I just hope I don't lose my pride
I just wanna go through my lines nigga
I just flow and hope I don't overdose
I just cope and go through I'm fine
I just know I know
I just broke my woes
Goin' postal I cruise I vibe yo
I just hope I don't lose my mind
I see everything
I know everything
I am everything
You can't control what happens to you
But still you try
Who do I call tonight
Who'd I call tonight?
You I call for
You might call tonight
You like talkin' like you might fall tonight you like
Lookin' through this UI
Nigga finna turned into a user
A nigga just subverted to the future
I'm certain your abuser's concern is somethin' new sir
It's not you so I'm hopin' you don't choose her, her
Cuz I need you to lose sleep
I need you to move
I need you to use
I need you confused
I need kunta swooned
I need coupes and booze
I need you to prove me, right, right?
Be a slave to the wave
Party never change or be taken away and it hardly ever break or brace in the ways
In the outside was the upside to the downside
Upside down look around for the ground I
Wanna fall from the balcony, blood from the drugs like alchemy, how can we slow down, down
I wanna have my grandmother proud of me
Ups and the downs never doubted the alchemy out till we outtie you bout it then bounce with my vice
Why didn't you do it?
Vice
Are you afriad?
Vice
Is that so?
Vice
Who are my next two?
Who are my next two?
Who is my ex for?
Who is my next to?
Or who is my next for?
It feels like connect four
Feel like I test you
Feel I accept war
We might impress you
Feel I should stress more
Feel like my best form
Realize my real life has turned into ash
Shovin' the shogun and show up to show off and dopin' on xan and I don't know your man so you single
And after you mingled we went to the back to the legal shit man it was evil
I just send you right back to your people I'm mad that I keep you this close
Maybe I'm being dramatic
Maybe you being deceitful
I know you needed my love like I needed your body to please me so this shit is equal
You bitch is you just gonna sleep
Fuck then you tucked in the sheets
Man this is somethin' to see
Drunk and was crying all up in my ear how you wanted for something complete but there's nothing to me
I left my heart in the sky but my blood keeps on pumpin' just leave, vice
She can't save you
You can't save you
I won't save you
You should stop trying
Livin' in the maze
Trippin' out the matrix
Slippin' out the days in sickenin' the days
Whippin' when the days end
Nigga got a quarter tank of gas so I hit it bitch I never been afraid
Do 150
Like there's somethin' against me
Like it's comin' to get me if I don't run from the city
If I don't run from a suddenness like I got somthin' I'm supplemented with sufference and something man I'm summed up and deadly
I been gone a long time, time
I just hope I don't lose my pride
I just wanna go through my lines nigga
I just flow and hope I don't overdose
I just cope and go through I'm fine
I just know I know
I just broke my woes
Goin' postal I cruise I vibe yo
I just hope I don't lose my mind
Lyrics submitted by HezzieJ
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