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.
This house doesn't feel like home
When the ghosts of the past walk through these halls
Just a part of the syndrome
Skeletons so lost hid in the walls
I don't run 'cause, I can't escape
Every time they call my name
Let down, dragged out in the pouring rain
Left to drown, left to drown, I see it on their face
With every promise you have broken
Another crack forms in the foundation
Maybe they'll hear us screaming from our lungs
Maybe they'll see us standing in our graves, fighting through our pain
Through our pain
Awake in an empty tomb, floating echoes reside that we're left by you
Living life in a circle
I feel you here, you're the toxin in this room
I can't run, I can't escape
Until the day that you're erased
Let down, dragged out in the pouring rain
Left to drown, left to drown, I see it on their face
With every promise you have broken
Another crack forms in the foundation
Maybe they'll hear us screaming from our lungs
Maybe they'll see us standing in our graves, fighting through our pain
Flesh of Your flesh
Blood of Your blood
Can nothing, no one, teach them to love?
Flesh of Your flesh
Blood of Your blood
Can nothing, no one, teach them how to love?
Teach them how to love?
They may be forgotten, but I won't forget the hate that you left
The unpayable debt
With each passing moment the fire consumes
Your pride will bury you
Take a look at what you left behind
Take a look at what you left behind
When the ghosts of the past walk through these halls
Just a part of the syndrome
Skeletons so lost hid in the walls
I don't run 'cause, I can't escape
Every time they call my name
Let down, dragged out in the pouring rain
Left to drown, left to drown, I see it on their face
With every promise you have broken
Another crack forms in the foundation
Maybe they'll hear us screaming from our lungs
Maybe they'll see us standing in our graves, fighting through our pain
Through our pain
Awake in an empty tomb, floating echoes reside that we're left by you
Living life in a circle
I feel you here, you're the toxin in this room
I can't run, I can't escape
Until the day that you're erased
Let down, dragged out in the pouring rain
Left to drown, left to drown, I see it on their face
With every promise you have broken
Another crack forms in the foundation
Maybe they'll hear us screaming from our lungs
Maybe they'll see us standing in our graves, fighting through our pain
Flesh of Your flesh
Blood of Your blood
Can nothing, no one, teach them to love?
Flesh of Your flesh
Blood of Your blood
Can nothing, no one, teach them how to love?
Teach them how to love?
They may be forgotten, but I won't forget the hate that you left
The unpayable debt
With each passing moment the fire consumes
Your pride will bury you
Take a look at what you left behind
Take a look at what you left behind
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