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 look into his eyes
They're closed but I see something
A teacher told me why
I laugh when old men cry
My body grows and grows
It frightens me you know
Old man tried to walk me home
I thought he should have known
Twilight
Twilight, lost my way
Twilight, can't find my way
In the shadow (shadow) boy meets man
In the shadow (shadow) boy meets man
In the shadow (shadow) boy meets man
In the shadow (shadow) boy meets man
I'm running in the rain
I'm caught in a late night play
It's all, it's everything
I'm soaking through the skin
Twilight darkened day
Twilight lost my way
Twilight night and day
Twilight can't find my way
Can't find your way
Can't find my way
Can't find your way
Twilight darkened day
Twilight lost my way
Twilight night and day
Twilight can't find my way
In the shadow (shadow) boy meets man
In the shadow (shadow) boy meets man
In the shadow (shadow) boy meets man
In the shadow (shadow) boy meets man
They're closed but I see something
A teacher told me why
I laugh when old men cry
My body grows and grows
It frightens me you know
Old man tried to walk me home
I thought he should have known
Twilight
Twilight, lost my way
Twilight, can't find my way
In the shadow (shadow) boy meets man
In the shadow (shadow) boy meets man
In the shadow (shadow) boy meets man
In the shadow (shadow) boy meets man
I'm running in the rain
I'm caught in a late night play
It's all, it's everything
I'm soaking through the skin
Twilight darkened day
Twilight lost my way
Twilight night and day
Twilight can't find my way
Can't find your way
Can't find my way
Can't find your way
Twilight darkened day
Twilight lost my way
Twilight night and day
Twilight can't find my way
In the shadow (shadow) boy meets man
In the shadow (shadow) boy meets man
In the shadow (shadow) boy meets man
In the shadow (shadow) boy meets man
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Twilight Lyrics as written by David Evans Adam Clayton
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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The entire Boy album is immortal to me. I began listening to U2 as a young teenager. Only a few years younger than they were when they wrote the Boy album. Because I first heard this song and that album in that particular period of my life, I related to some of the lyrics pretty strongly.
Like Bono when he wrote these lyrics, I was also at a point in my life when I was both a child and an adult. A strange and mystifying time where nothing is concrete and everything is changing.
Try to think back to when you were that age and how you felt and how you saw the world around you and then read the "Twilight" lyrics or listen to the song again. Now try to imagine that you're a teenager who's mind and body is changing in a way you don't understand and you're also dealing with the loss of your mother, possibly the most important relationship you had at that age.
This song then makes perfect sense. He's growing. He's trying to understand the things that are happening to him and he compares the changes coming about within himself to the changes between night and day. Somehow he feels caught in between one and the other.
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