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.
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Feel Good Hit of the Summer Lyrics as written by Nick Oliveri Josh Homme
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Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
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This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
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Great version of a great song,
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I must admit, I am somewhat puzzled by the lyrics of this song. The subject matter seems extremely vague, the message unclear. What can they be trying to say? I think I detect elements of Kierkegaard, and some evocative allusions to the closing passage of James Joyce's masterful short story 'The Dead', but beyond these trivial points the central thesis of the song escapes me.
The lyrics in themself don't say anything but the way of expressing them has irony involved. It works as to piss off uptight people and manages to be a kickass song in the process.
This song fucking rocks. I find the title kinda funny, coz you know when some shitty pop group release a shitty pop song music critics will call it the "feel good hit of the summer"? I think this song takes the piss out of that and uses the term "feel good hit", as in getting a fucking good high, not some shitty pop song.
as soon as you listen, this song is stimulating your subconscious mind "go take all these drugs now" b4 you know it your fucked lying on the floor "what the fuck happened?!" or maybe not
in an interview, Josh said this song was for a social experiment, to see how people respond. a lot of radio stations didn't play this song much the song because it was supporting drugs. but anti-drug campaigns played this song at their seminars, and other stories but yeah, that's the meaning go tell all your friends.
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this song is about drug use and he lists his "7 deadly sins" and most our ours as well...all of these drugs are fun and deserve this song
C-C-C-C-C-Cocaine!
Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy, and alcohol
C-C-C-C-C-Cocaine
Well, since it's the feel good HIT of the summer, and the word "hit" is singular, i guess he's suggesting all these drugs at once?
Not sure that's such a great idea. Mixing alcohol vicodin or valium could be fine, but all three would probably be pretty bad. Alcohol and pot makes you sick pretty easily. Alcohol and cocaine makes you sick pretty easily. Cocaine and pills makes you sick pretty easily. Ecstasy + anything will pretty much kill you. You might be safer just doing one at a time.
This is just a good, no frills, no BS song.For those people who have nothing better to do than to waste their money gettin wasted: ). I think more people should listen to QOTSA. They're definitely underated and overlooked.
the new album "songs for the deaf" is beyond good. It makes Rated R look average (which it isn't)..
ROCK ON QOTSA!
actually, you can mix ecstasy with many other drugs and you won't die.
Ecstasy+pot=good times Ecstasy+ketamine=also good times Ecstasy+acid=i've heard that's great times!