One time a thing occurred to me
What's real and what's for sale?
Blew a kiss and tried to take it home

Isn't you, isn't me
Search for things that you can't see
Going blind out of reach
Somewhere in the vasoline

Two times and it has rendered me
Punch drunk and without bail
Think I'd be safer all alone

Flies in the vasoline we are
Sometimes it blows my mind
Keep getting stuck here all the time

Isn't you, isn't me
Search for things that you can't see
Going blind out of reach
Somewhere in the vasoline

You'll see the look
And you'll see the lies
You'll eat the lies
And you will

Flies in the vasoline we are
Sometimes it blows my mind
Keep getting stuck here all the time

Isn't you, isn't me
Search for things that you can't see
Going blind out of reach
Somewhere in the vasoline


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Vasoline Lyrics as written by Eric Kretz Dean Deleo

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    Someone before wrote about masturbation. Maybe, but I think this song is about being stuck to some woman. We're just "flies in the Vaseline." MEN ARE STUCK TO WOMEN. We fly around until the good stuff hooks us, and then we can't escape.

    But it's dark: women know they have this power. They know we can't escape. They say we are the one's giving them sorrow, but in fact, they can just stop giving us "pleasure," which makes us desperate flies, and so we fly back to the sticky stuff, and eventually, we're stuck physically and emotionally.

    We crave it, but in the end, it tastes like nothing...

    TJsmartson August 31, 2011   Link

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