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.
Maze, psychopathic daze, I create this waste
Back away from tangents on the verge of drastic
Ways, can't escape this place, I deny your face
Sweat gets in my eyes I think I'm slowly dying
Put me in a homemade cellar
Put me in a hole for shelter
Someone hear me please all I see is hate
I can hardly breathe and I can hardly take it
Hands on my face overbearing I can't get out
Lost, ran at my own cost, hearing laughter, scoffed
Learning from the rush, detached from such and such
Bleak, all around me, weak, listening, incomplete
I am not a dog, but I'm the one your dogging
I am in a buried kennel
I have never felt so final
Someone find me please, losing all reserve
I am fucking gone, I think I'm fucking dying
You all stare, but you'll never see
There is something inside me
There is something in you I despise
Cut me, show me, enter, I am
Willing and able and never any danger to myself
Knowledge in my pain, knowledge in my pain
Or was my tolerance a phase?
Empathy, out of my way
I can't die
You will see
Purity
Back away from tangents on the verge of drastic
Ways, can't escape this place, I deny your face
Sweat gets in my eyes I think I'm slowly dying
Put me in a homemade cellar
Put me in a hole for shelter
Someone hear me please all I see is hate
I can hardly breathe and I can hardly take it
Hands on my face overbearing I can't get out
Lost, ran at my own cost, hearing laughter, scoffed
Learning from the rush, detached from such and such
Bleak, all around me, weak, listening, incomplete
I am not a dog, but I'm the one your dogging
I am in a buried kennel
I have never felt so final
Someone find me please, losing all reserve
I am fucking gone, I think I'm fucking dying
You all stare, but you'll never see
There is something inside me
There is something in you I despise
Cut me, show me, enter, I am
Willing and able and never any danger to myself
Knowledge in my pain, knowledge in my pain
Or was my tolerance a phase?
Empathy, out of my way
I can't die
You will see
Purity
Lyrics submitted by thewhitepony33, edited by wutsanaple
Purity Lyrics as written by Corey Taylor Christopher Fehn
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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this song is a remake of the purity knight story which was frail limb nursery and someother track on MFKR about a "created" character at crimescene.com
its a conspiracy! her ex BF tried to kill her
they have a couple songs on this crime stuff, like the prosthetics song about the guy killing women and all that in the '60s. it makes for good songs, though.
crimescene.com/purity/
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the girls name that this happened to in the story is Purity, maybe meaning "innocence" anyone else look at it that way? like the burial of innocence by maybe drugs or sex or something like that? people try to help, but she just turns her back and continues to struggle, ultimately resulting in her demise.
just my thoughts, could be like a double meaning. great song.
Eerie song great beginning with the girl. Is this the recording in the song of the girl talking or what?
Good job minimaggit, finally someone who knows something. It comes from the story on crimescene
This is a song about a girl in a little box...
you sir, win the intarweb.
this song is about a girl buried in a box, her name was purity, now i don't know if this really ever happened but it's what i heard
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