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.
Like Onslaught Meltdown vinyl hot as Sunspot he's hunting Morlocks I'm sure Psylocke will save them from enslavement, it's a Longshot, X-Factor in Excalibur we were the Fantastic Four plus one more, Kingpin was just a mortal removed from the mix, now it's Mr. Sinister's Insidious Six, Polaris the pacifist, Galactus the activist, acting on his hunger for your planet that's the last of it, make no mistake Mystique is messing with me, with mutants like her my trust is kind of iffy if we go back to wild style wild child riles Sabretooth up, I gave Nova a crewcut, I goofed up, now she's seeing Redskull, I can't say that today is dull, Strong Guy smashed upon the wrong guy, out of control, don't take lightly The Mighty Thor he might forfeit yea right I'm sure X-ternally yours I work with whatever hand I'm dealt, I felt I needed more vinyl to melt and so it goes with help from super heroes, I felt I needed more vinyl to melt Mr. Fantastic could you reach around the corner down the block to the store and grab me a pop can, Torch is in the kitchen cooking something hot and Cyclops went to 7-11 to get some eye drops, while I'm waiting for Gambit and Thing to drop by, I got my magic mic in case Apocalypse should try to step up but my rep is uncanny and I heard Namor could flow the offshore I mean can he? Wolverine I need a clean and don't say but this time or this rhyme will fall short of fresh fisch lines, Storm you got on too much eye liner just to go to Silver Surfer's diner off the coast, the most she could do is call Rogue probably posing for Vogue but instead she went and told Nightcrawler to call her, now the Invisible Woman would help me see this that I be this, some kind of wonderful and to believe this, now Daredevil's giving me static about to get dramatic when out of nowhere came Colossus who had lost us earlier but blocked the bullets from Daredevil's automatic, I had about enough of this so I unleashed my magic mic and blew him away on melted vinyl The Punisher met his match so I scratched his Kitty Pryde, pulled the gun on me crying on the inside, we didn't get along back then times were hard but that was before Professor X discovered Mastercard, Bishop's sister Shard and I have Archangel watching over us at every angle, my ankle twisted but I heal real fast, Flash ran by real fast suddenly stopping up ahead and then we found him, Omega Red halfway dead I had to Alpha life flight him to hospitality's bed, why did I help our enemy things are better left unsaid, it's incredible how the Hulk can hold in anger and sulk, his depression I suspect caused the Domino effect now how bad can the Gladiator get, I bet he's got Silver Fox sell her Goldilocks for profit, we knew of his diabolic plan but didn't know how to stop it, he sent Sentinels but their attack was merely marginal, injuries included Banshee and particle Sandman and Shocker, what's stranger than the doctor, Medusa had to interrupt Blackbolt shut up I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it see through Deadpool don't play me for the fool Ms. Marvelous, I'd rather starve than kiss her deadly lips a lady's Deathstrike
t's like open season on me, so i made a crossover call to the Justice League in Washington, D.C. I'm melting vinyl
t's like open season on me, so i made a crossover call to the Justice League in Washington, D.C. I'm melting vinyl
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