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.
Usherette:
Michael Rennie was ill
The Day the Earth Stood Still
But he told us where we stand.
And Flash Gordon was there
In silver underwear,
Claude Rains was the Invisible Man.
Then something went wrong
For Fay Wray and King Kong.
They got caught in a celluloid jam.
Then at a deadly pace
It Came From...Outer Space.
And this is how the message ran:
Chorus:
Science fiction, double feature
Doctor X will build a creature.
See androids fighting Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
Wuh uh uh oh o-o-oh
At the late night, double feature, picture show.
Usherette:
I knew Leo G. Carrol
Was over a barrel
When Tarantula took to the hills.
And I really got hot
When I saw Jeanette Scott
Fight a triffid that spits poison and kills.
Dana Andrews said Prunes
Gave him the runes
And passing them used lots of skills.
But When Worlds Collide,
Said George Pal to his bride,
"I'm gonna give you some terrible thrills,"
Like a...
Chorus:
Science fiction, double feature
Doctor X will build a creature.
See androids fighting Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
Wuh uh uh oh o-o-oh
At the late night, double feature, picture show.
I wanna go
Wuh oh o-o-oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show.
By RKO,
Wuh oh o-o-oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show.
In the back row,
Oh oh o-o-oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show!
Michael Rennie was ill
The Day the Earth Stood Still
But he told us where we stand.
And Flash Gordon was there
In silver underwear,
Claude Rains was the Invisible Man.
Then something went wrong
For Fay Wray and King Kong.
They got caught in a celluloid jam.
Then at a deadly pace
It Came From...Outer Space.
And this is how the message ran:
Chorus:
Science fiction, double feature
Doctor X will build a creature.
See androids fighting Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
Wuh uh uh oh o-o-oh
At the late night, double feature, picture show.
Usherette:
I knew Leo G. Carrol
Was over a barrel
When Tarantula took to the hills.
And I really got hot
When I saw Jeanette Scott
Fight a triffid that spits poison and kills.
Dana Andrews said Prunes
Gave him the runes
And passing them used lots of skills.
But When Worlds Collide,
Said George Pal to his bride,
"I'm gonna give you some terrible thrills,"
Like a...
Chorus:
Science fiction, double feature
Doctor X will build a creature.
See androids fighting Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
Wuh uh uh oh o-o-oh
At the late night, double feature, picture show.
I wanna go
Wuh oh o-o-oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show.
By RKO,
Wuh oh o-o-oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show.
In the back row,
Oh oh o-o-oh
To the late night, double feature, picture show!
Lyrics submitted by SnuffieSniffer
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::also does::
I definitely do. ;)
For those of you that missed the memo, this song is a bunch of old Science Fiction and horror movie references. And I can never sing it without callbacks.
Here here.
the rocky horror picture show is amazing.......i wanna see the stage show
when i first heard this song i thought it was a chick singing it but it turns out it was rits yay i love rits hes beautifull.
Its magenta who sings this in the movie
nooo, its richard o brien (Riff Raff) singing, and Patricia Quinn's (Magenta) lips miming :P!
I love this song! It's awesome =p
i always thought it was Tim Curry's lips.
me first and the gimmie gimmie have a good cover of this song too!
@CST I am listening to that cover right now!