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.
The hominid trajectory
Was the catalyst to forbid
This inter-dimensional imagery
For the substance of our existence
Seeps of earthborn putridity
This mystic entheogen
Skinning my essence
From a planet of regurgitated monsters
It ripped the threads of a dying macrocosm
Where all creations are charades and imposters
I no longer sense a ghost inside my carbon-based vessel
The grief is horrendous
But I rest in comfort of knowing
My soul is eternal and my consciousness endless
As my fleshed flame was quenched with gloom
The eternal darkness took my soul to consume
I can overhear my shadow's dimming cry
It wept and said
"Only that of which can destroy itself is truly alive"
I no longer sense a ghost inside my carbon-based vessel
The grief is horrendous
But I rest in comfort of knowing
My soul is eternal and my consciousness endless
As my fleshed flame was quenched with gloom
The eternal darkness took my soul to consume
I can overhear my shadow's dimming cry
It wept and said
"Only that of which can destroy itself is truly alive"
No longer was I to be revived
My body had been purged
Bathed by the sound of flies
Was the catalyst to forbid
This inter-dimensional imagery
For the substance of our existence
Seeps of earthborn putridity
This mystic entheogen
Skinning my essence
From a planet of regurgitated monsters
It ripped the threads of a dying macrocosm
Where all creations are charades and imposters
I no longer sense a ghost inside my carbon-based vessel
The grief is horrendous
But I rest in comfort of knowing
My soul is eternal and my consciousness endless
As my fleshed flame was quenched with gloom
The eternal darkness took my soul to consume
I can overhear my shadow's dimming cry
It wept and said
"Only that of which can destroy itself is truly alive"
I no longer sense a ghost inside my carbon-based vessel
The grief is horrendous
But I rest in comfort of knowing
My soul is eternal and my consciousness endless
As my fleshed flame was quenched with gloom
The eternal darkness took my soul to consume
I can overhear my shadow's dimming cry
It wept and said
"Only that of which can destroy itself is truly alive"
No longer was I to be revived
My body had been purged
Bathed by the sound of flies
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
The Forever Rot Lyrics as written by Jonny Davy Alan Glassman
Lyrics © THE ROYALTY NETWORK INC.
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