Vaporub - Bob Mould

Kept my heart locked away / Kept it far away from me

Found a place by the river where nobody goes

Buried far beneath the levee

Places where I used to go / When it rained, my heart went deeper

Deep blue underneath the sea / Washed away for no one to see

I don’t have the feelings I’m supposed to know

I don’t get the feeling that you understand

Only get the feeling that you’re feeling sorry for me

That’s never been the point of what i’ve said

Never really knew what love was / Mixed it up with other thoughts

Growing up alone doesn’t help one sort it out

Even when you’re here, you’re not

Never learned to trust another person

Never knew a person who could understand my words

Why I chose to share them, I will never know, but knowing

No one took the time to understand

Do I want forgiveness, or the thrill of maybe knowing

I could change direction, never caring where I’m going

Sometimes all the time it takes to make your destination

Isn’t charted out as clearly as it seems

Now the smell of vaporub comes over me

All the shame of weakness builds again

Rules and expectations I can’t follow any more

I became the person that I am

Wouldn’t want to make you think you haven’t found a way to me

It’s only that it’s not as simple as it seems to be