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Release date: 1st March 2024

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'Petroleum' by Yard Act is a 2024 rock track from the album 'Where’s My Utopia?'. Its lyrics weigh intimacy with a kind of helpless timing, casting desire as something that flares and fades without clear fault. The singer imagines giving away the self, then repositions that surrender as a temporary lapse rather than proof that “embers of passion” are dying. There is physical urgency in lines about burning bones, alongside a more mechanistic description of a brain in control, as if the body’s heat and the mind’s steering are always slightly out of step.

"Petroleum" is a single by Yard Act, from the album Where’s My Utopia?, released 1st March 2024. The track is 3:40 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Yard Act.

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Petroleum

Imagine if I had to give you my soul
In a moment when my soul was asleep
For it happens sometimes
Through no fault of our own
It's just a momentary blip in the passing of time
It's not a sign that the embers of passion are dying

My bones burn
And the brain that's controlling them
Knows that the soul needs petroleum
That's how it goes
Boom-boom, ba-ba-ba-boom

I'm grateful in ways I could never explain
In a moment I cannot escape
But I can't phone it in (No, we can't phone it in)
No, I could never begin (He could never begin)
Oh, I could never tell you how I'm feeling, if I'm not feeling it
It's a standard that I set myself to ruin relationships

My bones burn
And the brain that's controlling them
Knows that the soul needs petroleum
That's how it goes
Boom-boom, ba-ba-ba-boom

And if I knew how to control it
If I knew how to control it
If I knew how to control it I would

My bones burn
And the brain that's controlling them
Knows that the soul needs petroleum
That's how it goes
Boom-boom, ba-ba-ba-boom
My bones burn
And the brain that's controlling them
Knows that the soul needs petroleum
That's how it goes
Boom-boom, ba-ba-ba-boom

My bones burn (My bones burn)
And if I knew how to control it
If I knew how to control it
If I knew how to control it I would
That's how it goes
Hey-huh, hey-hey-hey-huh
Hey-huh, hey-hey-hey-huh
Hey-huh, hey-hey-hey-huh
Hey-huh, hey-hey-hey-huh
Hey-huh, hey-hey-hey-huh
Hey-huh, hey-hey-hey-huh

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From Where’s My Utopia?

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Yard Act
1st March 2024
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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    James Smith (Yard Act), Jay Russell, Ryan Needham, Sam Shipstone
    Producer
    Remi Kabaka Jr., Yard Act
    Engineer
    Alex Graves, Jay Russell, Matt Peel
    Drums
    Jay Russell
    Vocals
    James Smith (Yard Act)
    Additional Engineering
    Harpaal Sanghera
    Background Vocals
    Ryan Needham
    Bass Guitar
    Ryan Needham
    Electric Guitar
    Sam Shipstone
    Glockenspiel
    James Smith (Yard Act)
    Mastering Engineer
    Matt Colton
    Mixing Engineer
    Ross Orton
    Percussion
    James Smith (Yard Act), Jay Russell
    Programmer
    Jay Russell
    Recording Engineer
    Paul Norris
    Synthesizer
    Jay Russell
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