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.
How could you say there's nothing
How could you say what's right
How could you say there's nothing
When everything's so right
There's not much that's left unsaid and I can't even tell what's real
Now as the blood drips from your arm to me it starts to take me from this place
Fall again
I can dream again
Fall again so far from myself and everything
How could you say there's nothing
How could you say what's right
What do you need to feel this
What do you think is right
It spins so fast I can not see far past this world you made for me
It starts to feel so cold I do not know if this is what I need
Fall again
I can dream again
Fall again so far from myself and everything
How could you say what's right
How could you say there's nothing
When everything's so right
There's not much that's left unsaid and I can't even tell what's real
Now as the blood drips from your arm to me it starts to take me from this place
Fall again
I can dream again
Fall again so far from myself and everything
How could you say there's nothing
How could you say what's right
What do you need to feel this
What do you think is right
It spins so fast I can not see far past this world you made for me
It starts to feel so cold I do not know if this is what I need
Fall again
I can dream again
Fall again so far from myself and everything
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Well in any case, here's my take on it. The person narrating the song is in a relationship with someone who says there's "nothing" to their love anymore and feels that it's "wrong" in some way. The narrator definitely doesn't feel that way - he's drawn into the mystique of his lover, spinning in "this world you made for me" whenever they're together.
There may also be an element of S&M/vampirism in this song in the line "Now as the blood drips from your arm to me..." Perhaps the narrator is obsessed with this activity, but it's scaring his lover. He's loving it so much and he's desperate for her to "feel this", the same way that he does. But then he realizes she doesn't love him anymore and "it starts to feel so cold" and he doesn't know what he needs anymore.
In a nutshell, I think this is all about fantasy. Imagining (hence the 'dream again') what your relationship should be, falling away from reality.