| David Byrne – Dance On Vaseline Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| The lyrics to the song describe the perspective of the snake from the Garden of Eden as he regrets passing along "knowledge" to humanity because of what they have done with it. He blames the "preacher man" for making him a target of derision, a "silly putty" to shape into an object of blame. The snake is saying that the world is a scary, violent place because of what humanity has done with knowledge. The Oklahoma reference is probably about the bombing by Tim McVeigh, which happend just a couple of years before the song was written. At the same time, the snake is mocking those who target him, he gets away because he can "dance on vaseline". He's "slipping out" and working to change the world again, this time by giving music. In the "light of dawn" of this new world the lust for power and domination will be exposed for what it is (a "legislative body") and people will no longer crave it. When he "lets the music in" people will evolve past power and violence. | |
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