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.
Work it
Make it
Do it
Makes us
Harder
Better
Faster
Stronger
More than
Hour
Our
Never
Ever
After
Work is
Over
Work it
Make it
Do it
Makes us
Harder
Better
Faster
Stronger
Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is
Never over
Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is
Never over
Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is
Never over
Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is
Never over
Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is
Never over
Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is
Never over
Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is
Never over
Work it harder make it
Do it faster makes us
More than ever hour
Our work is never over
Work it harder make it
Do it faster makes us
More than ever hour
Our work is never over
Work it
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is
Never over
Work it harder make it
Do it faster makes us
More than ever hour
Our work is never over
Work it harder make it
Do it faster makes us
More than ever hour
Our work is never over
Work it harder
Do it faster
More than ever
Our work is never over
Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is never over
Make it
Do it
Makes us
Harder
Better
Faster
Stronger
More than
Hour
Our
Never
Ever
After
Work is
Over
Work it
Make it
Do it
Makes us
Harder
Better
Faster
Stronger
Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is
Never over
Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is
Never over
Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is
Never over
Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is
Never over
Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is
Never over
Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is
Never over
Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is
Never over
Work it harder make it
Do it faster makes us
More than ever hour
Our work is never over
Work it harder make it
Do it faster makes us
More than ever hour
Our work is never over
Work it
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is
Never over
Work it harder make it
Do it faster makes us
More than ever hour
Our work is never over
Work it harder make it
Do it faster makes us
More than ever hour
Our work is never over
Work it harder
Do it faster
More than ever
Our work is never over
Work it harder
Make it better
Do it faster
Makes us stronger
More than ever
Hour after
Our work is never over
Lyrics submitted by Phoebe101, edited by remembuary, saphire24
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Lyrics as written by Christo Guy Manuel D Homem Thomas Bangalter
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Downtown Music Publishing, BECAUSE EDITIONS
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Actually, Phoebe101 is correct. It is "hour after hour". The second "hour", however, is a pun and is taken both ways, "hour" and "our".
Okay, this song is great. It took major contemplation and arguements with my English class, but we figured out its meaning. Think of this song, if you will, as a factory's assembly line. The assembly line begins with pieces and progressively builds upon those pieces to create a finished product. This song begins in pieces as well. "Work it." "Make it." etc. After a bit, newer, slightly more complex 'pieces' are added, but the whole of the meaning and structure is still incomplete. "More than hour." "Hour never." etc. Finally, the song hits the final and most complex 'sentence' verse. This verse is finely structured compared to the earlier, rougher stanzas. It is efficient and to the point, thought vague, as it can be. Efficiency comes in the pun with "hour". It would take more words to include the true meaning.
The mechanical voice and constant, pulsating beat in this song greatly add to the effect of an assembly line.
Okay, now with that out of the way, the meaning:
Efficiency/Perfection. That is what this song is about. Working harder; making the product better, ever faster, makes the workers prosper. The workers strive to make their products more efficient, both tangible and intangible products. The work towards efficiency makes everything better superficially.
However, the next line reveals the catch. More than ever, hour after hour, our work is never over.
"More than ever." Each time the product is improved, a new, better, more efficient process is revealed. Every time the product is updated, a new improvement can be put on it. "More than ever" shows the fanatic strive towards the perfection.
"Hour after hour" Continous work.
"[Our] work is never over." The continous strive for effecient perfection is never over. New ideas and advances are always being made.
That staza's meaning as a whole is left up to the individual listener to decide. Whether the listener enjoys contast work for perfection, leaving out the love and joy of living or does not like the idea of striving for something unobtainable while losing out on all the fun of life.
Any other additions or points I've missed?
Amazing. Thank you so much.
i love this interpretation
@LeCavalier<br /> I really like your interpretation of this song, I've had a lot of similar ideas to your reasoning. I would like to add a little more weight to your explanation.<br /> Ever heard of the movie "Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem"? It was a movie with no dialogue, and its soundtrack was the entire album Discovery front-to-back. It told the story of an alien band that was taken from their home planet, sent to earth, made to look and act humanly, and turned into a worldwide hit. I won't ruin the ending for you!<br /> In the part of the movie where "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" is played the aliens (unconscious) are run through a completely automated sequence where they are removed of their alien clothes, painted and hair dyed to look human, removed of their alien memories, dressed in human clothes, and implanted with mind control devices. The idea of an assembly line fits in well with the automated process, and later on in the movie it is revealed that this process has been performed 5,554 times before, hence "Hour after Hour" and "Our work is never over."<br /> In addition, the idea that the items being worked on are being made better also fits. The aliens had an amazing musical sound in the movie; a sound "Harder, Better, Faster, and Stronger" than others' work. The aliens were worked upon to be good enough to perform to a human audience.<br /> Well, that's my thinking anyway.
i love when people make really extremely long comments
@LeCavalier I agree to an extent.... Realize though at the end the human sounding robotic voice is cutting out a lot and actually gets hard to hear. So, that would represent that everything were doing is going electronic and people aren't really as necessary (robots creating things and doing most of the work) and at the end you get to start hearing how it starts to get more clear again as humans realize that we still need to have the control. <br /> <br /> Finally, the very last line "Our work is never over" has a very deep and distinguished sound as to the idea of a downgrading tone to people who thought robots and electronics could replace humans and it's very decisive.
I really hope someone will see this, although this is an old song. So, I never got interested in this song ... Until five, or six days ago, when I saw official video for it. Well, all I can say is that I think (and that's based on this video i saw) this song is about becoming superstar with a help of 'Great music industry' which will help you to become suitable, accetable for public:
Work it harder Make it better Do it faster Makes us stronger
And in return you will be their 'worker' forever* ...
Work it harder Do it faster More than ever Our work is never over
P.S. Sorry for my bad English ...
It's because they're not - they're saying 'More than ever hour after our work is never over'....haha (because they're <i>so</i> different, right?)
it's clearly about screwing! "all our work is never over" because you end up with kids :P use protection hahaha!
It always sounded to me that it was talking about those people who practice so much at what they do, they lose their humanity. That's why the voice sounds robotic and repetitive.
In the song it doesn't sound like they're really saying Ever Hour After or Hour Work is Never Over Hmmmm...
well it does.<br /> so hmm to you.
haha that just clamped the first two peoples comments hehe!! and i do believe LeCavalier is right... :P
Wow! I love the meaning and everything... very nice. Thanks for figuring it out! -_^
yea lecaliver is right, this song does own tho, the whole daft punk cd(discovery) is really awesome, its got such great beats in all of the songs, but the one song i dont really like in particular is voyager, i mean its kindof the same beat over and over with a little variance to all the sections
This song is cool. I especially love to listen to it while doing homework. Though, isn't it kind of funny that people have written so much interpretation of a song with such minimal, simple lyrics? Seems ironic to me, hee hee hee.