Dance On Vaseline

I'm taking back the knowledge

I'm taking back the gentleness

 I'm taking back the ritual

I'm giving in to sweetness

 Come preacherman,

shoot me with your poisoned arrow

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 children

I'm taking back the ceremony

I'm taking back my offerings

And I'm taking back what you mean to me

 You're dangerous, shoot me with your poisoned arrow But I dance on Vaseline

And I'm slipping out

I'm working on a revolution

Don't let the music in

 And war is all around us

Your Gods are dead and buried underground

I was a silly putty

Your big ideas are useless to me now

 My baby saw the future

She doesn't wanna live it anymore

Its lousy science-fiction

It's on your skin and seeps into your bones

 Come preacherman, shoot me with your poisoned arrow

I dance on Vaseline 

And I'm tripping out working on a revolution 

Don't let day begin 

And you're dangerous, shoot me with your poisoned arrow 

But I dance on Vaseline 

And I'm slipping out working on a revolution 

 

Don't let the music in It started in Oklahoma 

You always think it happens somewhere else 

This madness is attractive 

Until the day it happens to yourself 

And power might seem sexy 

But check her in the cool grey light of dawn 

 

A legislative body 

And all at once your lust for her is gone 

And I'm tripping out working on a revolution 

Don't let the day begin 

We'll turn you down time to time for evolution 

Don't let the music in 

And I'm tripping out working on a revolution 

Don't let the day begin 

We'll turn you down, make a time for evolution 

Don't let the day begin

David Byrne & Morcheeba