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.
Mr. Lenin - awaken the boy
Mr. Stalin - bisexual epoch
Kruschev - self love in his mirrors
Brezhnev - married into group sex
Gorbachev - celibate self importance
Yeltsin - failure is his own impotence
Revol - revol
Revol - revol
Lebensraum - Kulturkampf - raus, raus - fila, fila
Napoleon - childhood sweethearts
Chamberlain - you see God in you
Trotsky - honeymoon, serenade the naked
Che Guevara - you're all target now
Pol Pot - withdrawn traces, bye bye
Farrakhan - alimony alimony
Revol - revol
Revol - revol
Lebensraum - Kulturkampf - raus, raus - fila, fila
Revol - revol
Revol - revol
Lebensraum - Kulturkampf - raus, raus - fila, fila
Mr. Stalin - bisexual epoch
Kruschev - self love in his mirrors
Brezhnev - married into group sex
Gorbachev - celibate self importance
Yeltsin - failure is his own impotence
Revol - revol
Revol - revol
Lebensraum - Kulturkampf - raus, raus - fila, fila
Napoleon - childhood sweethearts
Chamberlain - you see God in you
Trotsky - honeymoon, serenade the naked
Che Guevara - you're all target now
Pol Pot - withdrawn traces, bye bye
Farrakhan - alimony alimony
Revol - revol
Revol - revol
Lebensraum - Kulturkampf - raus, raus - fila, fila
Revol - revol
Revol - revol
Lebensraum - Kulturkampf - raus, raus - fila, fila
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Revol Lyrics as written by Edwards Bradfield
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Brezhnev - married into group sex Perhaps this refers to Brezhnev's interventionist foreign policy, more commonly known as "The Brezhnev doctrine" under which the Soviet Union reserved the right to intervene, with its Warsaw Pact allies, in the domestic affairs of satellite states in defense of socialism.
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