Billy Idol - Rebel Yell Meaning

Song Released: 1984

Covered By: Black Veil Brides

Rebel Yell Lyrics

Last night a little dancer came dancin' to my door
Last night a little angel Came pumping cross my floor
She said "Come on baby I got a licence for love
And if it expires pray help from above"

In the midnight hour she cried- "more, more,...

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   anonymous

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   Oct 2nd 2015 !⃝

   This is a song about Heroin Addiction and Heroin Addicts. Billy had a serious Smack problem, it historic fact.
   
   Analog to O.D.:
   "Come on baby I got a license for love
   And if it expires pray help from above"
   Analog to Heroin:
   But when I'm tired and lonely she sees me to bed
   Analog to Gay Prostitute working for smack he gets at 7-11:
   He lives in his own heaven
   Collects it to go from the seven eleven
   Well he's out all night to collect a fare
   Just so long, just so long it don't mess up his hair.
   Addiction:
   I'd sell my soul for you babe
   For money to burn with you
   I'd give you all, and have none, babe
   Just to, just to, just to, to have you here by me
   Because
2. anonymous

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   Jul 14th 2024 !⃝

   I can't say that I believe this is a song about heroin addiction. But there is the song, "Angie", by the Rolling Stones where Angie wasn't a girl, she was the personification of Kieth Richard's addiction to heroin when he wrote it.
3. anonymous

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   Jun 22nd 2023 !⃝

   It’s such a great song! I love it! I never knew it was about heroin. I thought it was about sex and some woman giving him oral sex.
4. anonymous

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   Aug 13th 2022 !⃝

   Sounds a lot like the plot of True Romance. Sex worker and desperate man fall in love. They rebel against her oppressor to be together. Tragic love
5. anonymous

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   Jun 29th 2021 !⃝

   Billy Idol was in need of something, he got drunk and prayed. The Lord finally answered his prayer and the Angel came to him. She said the lord gave her the license ticket to her. In terms of the agreement, he was granted the money and she gave him more more. The more he got the more she.cried with a Rebel Yell. However, As part of the agreement,if he received the Angel that came dancing to his door, she bestows hell from above, to him and those who deceived. KARMA!!!!!!!
   As it is said, KARMA is A BITCH, AND SHE IS REAL HARD TO PAY!!!
   
6. anonymous

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   Jan 8th 2021 !⃝

   He said it in an interview. It was when he was with generation x. He was on break and went to the bathroom. A groupie came in and gave him a blowjob in the bathroom. Nothing romantic or drug related.
7. anonymous

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   Nov 20th 2020 !⃝

   It was about a beautiful young girl. Not just beautiful outside but inside as well and intelligent. Hard combination to find. At the time he really needed and she was from the south. That's where Rebel came from cried out for more more more drugs perhaps sex.
8. anonymous

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   Mar 22nd 2020 !⃝

   I think we can all guess the meaning, or have a general part of an idea of the meaning. It's about this girl, most likely an entertainer of sorts, choosing a guy and wanting to make love, hence the "Come on, Baby. I've a license for love." And this kind of gives me "The Drug In Me Is You" by Falling In Reverse vibes. Simply because love can be like a drug; addicting and making people cry out for more. Just like the chorus says, "In the midnight hour, she cried more more more. With a rebel yell, she cried more more more."
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   Feb 14th 2020 !⃝

   This song is definitely about heroin. Users often refer to it as "her or "she"
   
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    Aug 14th 2019 !⃝

    Yeah. Its about heroin. Personified as a female.
11. anonymous

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    May 11th 2019 !⃝

    That the lady has a sex addiction and wants more or either more drugs.
12. anonymous

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    Jan 27th 2019 !⃝

    In 1803, North Maxwell, Pyke, invited Matthew Middleton Christian, To His Home In Amsterdam. He Claimed That His Peruvian Toprch was a backstab, but that the rebel flag should live forever in it's name.
13. anonymous

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    Nov 27th 2018 !⃝

    its like when you eat something for the first and you like it, you want more. This song is kinda say that something bad for you can get addicting. I think that's what BVB and Billy Idol were going for.
14. anonymous

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    Nov 13th 2018 !⃝

    I basically know this song...but it must have some type of meaning ...I'm still trying to figure out the meaning behind "Rebel yell"
15. anonymous

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    Jul 28th 2018 !⃝

    I think it’s about a man falling for a Woman. It started out with him just wanting sex... but she enticed him just by being loving carefree self... he fell for her... became addicted to her... fantasizes about her... and now realizes he loved her... still loves her... but he believes it’s too late... her openness is gone... everything he loved is gone... she is gone.... but he’d sell his soul to get it all back. My ex plays this song every time we are together.
16. anonymous

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    Jul 25th 2018 !⃝

    as a matter of fact there is more to the song than the obvious.
    
    he talks about it in a 1984 interview.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAxx5QliDcM
    
    Have a look and then rethink your comment..
    
    Rebel Yell happens to be a bourbon he drank with Rolling Stones artists, and he wrote a song about it, but it also has elements from situations he found himself in.