Dance On Vaseline Lyrics
I’m taking back the gentleness
I’m taking back the ritual
I’m giving in to sweetness
But I dance on vaseline
And I’m tripping out working on a revolution
You don’t let the music in
I’m taking back the ceremony
I’m taking back my offerings
And I’m taking back what you mean to me
But I dance on vaseline
And I’m slipping out I’m working on a revolution
Don’t let the music in
Your gods are dead and buried underground
I was a silly putty
Your big ideas are useless to me now
She doesn’t wanna live it anymore
Its lousy science-fiction
It’s on your skin and seeps into your bones
I dance on vaseline
And I’m tripping out working on a revolution
Don’t let day begin
But I dance on vaseline
And I’m slipping out working on a revolution
Don’t let the music in
You always think it happens somewhere else
This madness is attractive
Until the day it happens to yourself
But check her in the cool grey light of dawn
A legislative body
And all at once your lust for her is gone
Don’t let the day begin
We’ll turn you down time to time for evolution
Don’t let the music in
Don’t let the day begin
We’ll turn you down, make a time for evolution
Don’t let the day begin
Simply, this song it’s a Divorce:
“...the legislative body, and all at once your lust for her is gone...”
“Oh preacher man shoot me with your poison arrow” (aka for better or for worst)
“I’m taking back the...” “...the children...” (aka everything)
“This madness it’s attractive, until the day it happens to yourself” (that’s how and why one will get this song)
P.S.: “Brevity is the soul of wit” -W. Shakespeare
It's about the separation of church and state.
Once you start making laws that allow the church to step into the business of government(prayer in schools, ten commandments at state houses, etc.etc.etc.), then you open a dystopian world where not only religion rules government, but government also rules religion...
...it's a slippery slope, a dance on Vaseline.
It started in Oklahoma, it's lousy science fiction, it's dangerous, and while that power might seem sexy at the time, in the sober light of dawn it's something else entirely....
...so, it's time for a the monkeys to revolt.
It's a dig on church vs. state, science vs. religion, and the fact that no one else seems to get that really boggles my brain, it's pretty obvious.
@glitch1083 I think this is the correct interpretation
@glitch1083 I think this is the correct interpretation
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.
I always interpreted the song as a reflection on the Oklahoma City bombing, and how people can be talked into any kind of cruelty if they can rationalize it as part of some "greater good".
Does anyone know what this is about? Please explain to us all.
it's about not letting people who try to compromise you as a person affect you and it's also kind of an attempt to convince people who do that kind of stuff that it's stupid.
this song is about realizing the awesome beauty of the world and realizing that religion, politics and all of the issues in modern society are rediculous and that the only rational thing to admire and answer to in the world is the natural world itself - 'Your big ideas are useless to me now' (talking about the widely believed ideas in modern day and that they are so far from being human that they are in fact useless because we are all human) - 'im taking back the ritual' (talking about the beginning of human kind when the ancient tribes adorned the sun and world as a beautiful life giving environment). he talks about 'tripping out'. this is an explicit reference to an experience on mushrooms and/or acid where these revelations are extremely prevalent.