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.
in nervous convulsion
crouches infant ape
trembling in mother's shit
cage eyes tear less
filled with contempt
clinic mask experiment with life and death
smell lingering noxious
mixed scent anxiety
omnipotent doctor grinds the cage door revealing
love's primal instinct taken away
the tiny face terrified
rant and rave smash your head against the cage
vacuum clicks on high
conscious through the pain
pass off as humane
white coat seems so clean
most dirt bleached out
out of greed
force the point of habit
eyes burn in a rabbit
push the pain test button
spine's cut
trip mucous inflection
more die pills each day
what goes around comes back stronger
tap into the brain
break the skull again
smash price research rat
lab rent pain in flesh
more ill drug store sales
sharpen the knife
emphasis on money
new disease everyday
end is seen and coming
research turns its back to gain
crush the spine genocide
kitten drags its dead limb
continuing all suffering
it will come back and win
shock paralyse
turn trauma burns out the will to live
the lying message
5 year genocide 1945
suicide vivisect VI
crouches infant ape
trembling in mother's shit
cage eyes tear less
filled with contempt
clinic mask experiment with life and death
smell lingering noxious
mixed scent anxiety
omnipotent doctor grinds the cage door revealing
love's primal instinct taken away
the tiny face terrified
rant and rave smash your head against the cage
vacuum clicks on high
conscious through the pain
pass off as humane
white coat seems so clean
most dirt bleached out
out of greed
force the point of habit
eyes burn in a rabbit
push the pain test button
spine's cut
trip mucous inflection
more die pills each day
what goes around comes back stronger
tap into the brain
break the skull again
smash price research rat
lab rent pain in flesh
more ill drug store sales
sharpen the knife
emphasis on money
new disease everyday
end is seen and coming
research turns its back to gain
crush the spine genocide
kitten drags its dead limb
continuing all suffering
it will come back and win
shock paralyse
turn trauma burns out the will to live
the lying message
5 year genocide 1945
suicide vivisect VI
Lyrics submitted by jt
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exactly...and the title of the album is VIVIsect VI
VI VI sect VI 6 6 sect 6 vivisection = 666
i believe that was the meaning, anyway
According to the band, it is.
i love this track. its my fave puppy track. love it love it love it! all the more for the fact it has a cause, like actually quite a lot of puppy songs...though the meanings ARE rather obscure....
love it
Such a sad song, but with a great melody. It paints such a vivid picture.
This song is about the horrors of vivisection. It's message is vivisection is not only cruel to animals but also has not proven to be very helpful in curing human dieseases. Also some of the lyrics are from the animals point of view, this is also what the name of the band means. Please learn more about vivisection!
The song's about animal torture; specifically vivisection. And yes, the title does imply the "666" thing - they've admitted to that at some time or another, I'm pretty sure.
Ahhh, I love this song. I remember doing a project on vivisection last year for school and I had a book titled 'Vivisection is scientific fraud' I borrowed off of my dad to help me. Viewing the film clip for this song, I noticed that a lot of the images have been taken from this book. The only reason I ended up searching for the film clip was after watching The Plague Dogs and reading that an audio from the movie was inserted in the video. "I hope you make sure we're properly dead before you start, old rip beak." Loved that line so much... Amazing song from a very eccentric band. Love it, love it, love it.
Now, everyone go out and watch The Plague Dogs on youtube.com. Very relevant movie. =]
I had no idea what this was about, but it makes sense now. Pretty heavy stuff man.. good song. where can I see the video?
The connection between animal testing and the medical community is pretty straight forward compared to other Puppy lyrics. The last lines are less clear. 5 year genocide 1945 vivisectvi. 1945 marked the evacuation of many concentration camps at the end of WWII. For about 5 years, cruel experiments were executed on the victims of the holocaust. The suggestion is that the holocaust was just a measure of degrees from animal testing. Just as serial killers start with torturing animals, society's acceptance of animal testing is just that much closer to accepting the extermination of a particular race or creed. Another argument against animal testing.
I know in the 80's, Ogre was really into PETA and animal rights, but it seems like he may have also been alluding to some vivisection done on humans too. At the end he mentions genocide and 1945. Apparently vivisection without anesthesia was performed on prisoners of war during the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937-1945. Also, Nazi Joseph Mengele, aka Angel of Death, performed extremely demented and cruel vivisection on Holocaust victims. That would also explain why Ogre used the term "genocide" since animal vivisection doesn't really have anything to do with genocide. It sounds like he's referring to that too, and possibly even victims of Ritual Abuse. Anyone else have any info on this?
isnt this the song with the vivisection video? it got banned didnt it?? im getting the singles collect soon and mythmaker! woo lol