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.
Straight in, suck up and go,
Cool it swallow, swallow
Breathe deep, take it all it comes cheap
Push it through the doors
Because in between the lines
I'm gonna pack more lines
So I can get in
Ooh traffic jam got more cars
Than a beach got sand
Suck it up, suck it up, suck it up,
Fill it up until no more
I'm no crazy creep, I've got it coming
To me because I'm not satisfied
The hunger keeps on growing
I eat too much
I drink too much
I want too much
Too much
I've got to get it somewhere
I mean, you never know, maybe
You're dreaming
Who do you think you're watching
Who do you think you need
Play for me, play more,
Ten times in the same day
I need more, I'm going
Over my borders
I'm going to take more, more
From you, letter by letter
I eat too much
I drink too much
I want too much
Too much
I told, god, I'm coming
To your country
I'm going to eat up your cities,
Your homes, you know
I've got a stomach full it's not
A chip on my shoulder
I've got this growl in my tummy
And I'm gonna stop it today
I eat too much
I drink too much
I want too much
Too much
Suck it up...
Cool it swallow, swallow
Breathe deep, take it all it comes cheap
Push it through the doors
Because in between the lines
I'm gonna pack more lines
So I can get in
Ooh traffic jam got more cars
Than a beach got sand
Suck it up, suck it up, suck it up,
Fill it up until no more
I'm no crazy creep, I've got it coming
To me because I'm not satisfied
The hunger keeps on growing
I eat too much
I drink too much
I want too much
Too much
I've got to get it somewhere
I mean, you never know, maybe
You're dreaming
Who do you think you're watching
Who do you think you need
Play for me, play more,
Ten times in the same day
I need more, I'm going
Over my borders
I'm going to take more, more
From you, letter by letter
I eat too much
I drink too much
I want too much
Too much
I told, god, I'm coming
To your country
I'm going to eat up your cities,
Your homes, you know
I've got a stomach full it's not
A chip on my shoulder
I've got this growl in my tummy
And I'm gonna stop it today
I eat too much
I drink too much
I want too much
Too much
Suck it up...
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Too Much Lyrics as written by Christopher Stewart Terius Nash
Lyrics © Hipgnosis Songs Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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@trippinbtm (Ten years later) I agree, it's the first thing it came to my mind when i actually stopped and listened to the lyrics. All other interpretations of it being about alcoholism and drugs, and butt sex (???) are totally misled...
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The entire first verse is about gettin' the pipes cleaned... listen to it again. That whole first section can't be mistaken for anything but sodomy.
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Silhouette makes a damn good point.
First of all, the first verse of Too Much is not alluding to sodomy. Too Much according to Dave is about being overly self-indulgent. Drinking, eating, and wanting everything. The whole song is a reference to the materialistic values of society and how we constantly take and take and take, and are still never satisfied. I have a bootleg of Dave's solo act at Farm Aid at the Post Gazette Pavilion, where he changes the lyrics somewhat. Which makes the song allude to corporate farming and the mindless tearing up of the land. But it can be represented in the song without changing the words. The message is clear and simple. To think it has to do with butt-sex, is taking way Way WAY out of context and trying to find some deeper meaning. Accept it at face value, it says what it says, and what it is intended to say.
yah i agree<br /> <br /> this song live was illllllll
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Straight in, suck up and go, cool it, swallow, swallow Put the bill/straw right up your nostril, and snort it. Cool it by clearing your nasal passageways, and swallow the drip. A drip is when the substance that was insufflated slowly leaks down the back of the throat. Suck up and go refers to the immediate energy/mood rush one gets seconds after snorting a line of coke.
The rest of the song takes a more wide-open approach to over-indulgence, but the beginning, to any drug user, is clearly referencing the use of Cocaine.
I have always thought that also, along with the next few.... In between the lines i'm gonna pack more lines so i can get them in. <br /> <br /> The rest of the song i thnk is just about our socities obsession with over indulgence. We want it BIGGER FASTER MORE all the time. He makes a wonderful point (eve if the first of it is all about blow).<br /> <br /> I love this song, it's one of my favorite up tempo songs by Dave. Drug references or not me and my kids dance around the room to this one a lot! (they are to small to get it, hell i didn't understand a lot of his songs until well into my adulthood and i have been a DMB fan for 15 years)
(Ten years later...)<br /> "to any drug user". I think that's the problem, drug users listen to any lyrics of any song ever wrote in the history of rock and roll and all they think is "dude, he's talking about drugs!".<br /> Quoting System Of A Down: "Pull the tapeworm out of your ass"...
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