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.
I, insectica
Fly thru dimensia
You give me more than meets the eye
You give me more than I can't deny
A thousand eyes thru your soul
A thousand eyes over me
Your power eclipses me
As I take my place beneath thee
I want to be in your colony
I want to serve your queen
For the venom through iron wings
Still beats in symmetry
Deathray deathray you're gay deathray
Straight to my heart
She tears apart
You have the right to remain in pieces
You have the right to own my heart
Now I am a part of your colony
Now I live to serve your queen
As the venom through iron wings
Still beats in symmetry
Fly thru dimensia
You give me more than meets the eye
You give me more than I can't deny
A thousand eyes thru your soul
A thousand eyes over me
Your power eclipses me
As I take my place beneath thee
I want to be in your colony
I want to serve your queen
For the venom through iron wings
Still beats in symmetry
Deathray deathray you're gay deathray
Straight to my heart
She tears apart
You have the right to remain in pieces
You have the right to own my heart
Now I am a part of your colony
Now I live to serve your queen
As the venom through iron wings
Still beats in symmetry
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the best cc song ever. fact. anyone who questions me is wrong.
i think its talking about love at first site and that she will be with him in the good times and bad times..!
i guess..haha
Its not actually a CC song, its just a vocal track and an extra drum beat added to a Lo-Bat song 'My little robot needs a hand'. I like the lyrics added, but the band are just stealing songs and artwork from the chipscene which they totally disassociate themselves from.
Its called "sampling" not stealing! almost every has done it!
Insecticons are from the original Transformers Toys/Animated show. I think it refers to them with the line "more than meets the eye" and all the insect and metal iron words..
The thing is about Lo-Bat's song is that it's available for free. Not to mention this song isn't even being sold commercially. It's only available as a stream on MySpace. On top of that, they now mention Lo-Bat on the page. I think they didn't credit him before simply because they didn't expect people to care so much about a song they weren't trying to profit off of.
this song is actually called "Insectica" not "Insecticon"
This version (CALLED INSECTICON NOT INSECTICA) was an early demo of Insectic(ON) V2. They just used sounds and things from Lo-bat's song, as 'tehforester' said. This song was critized for illegal sampling and what not, but the band was not charged since they never released it to the public or performed the exact song live.
V2 is much better on my opinion.
tell me something i dont already know? it was preformed live before, i have a live version.. and it isnt called insecticon, thats the wrong title. ethan even said it in an interview.. so did their manager andy
on the lies records myspace the audio is referred to as 'insecticon'.