Petroleum(L. petroleum, from Latin: petra (rock) + Latin: oleum (oil)). The Latin word petra is a loanword from Greek πέτρα.
Petroleum or crude oil, is a naturally occurring flammable liquid consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights and other liquid organic compounds, that are found in geologic formations beneath the Earth's surface. A fossil fuel, it is formed when large quantities of dead organisms, usually zooplankton and algae, are buried underneath sedimentary rock and undergo intense heat and pressure.
Petroleum is recovered mostly through oil drilling. This comes after the studies of structural geology (at the reservoir scale), sedimentary basin analysis, reservoir characterization (mainly in terms of porosity and permeable structures). It is refined and separated, most easily by boiling point, into a large number of consumer products, from petrol (or gasoline) and kerosene to asphalt and chemical reagents used to make plastics and pharmaceuticals. Petroleum is used in manufacturing a wide variety of materials, and it is estimated that the world consumes about 88 million barrels each day.
I've been put down and been the target of scorn.
So many times I?e cursed the day I was born.
Tasted every taste and done all to the max.
I've survived this long thanks to pills and twelvepacks.
It? all been hazy but one thing I know.
No use to fight it when you're sunk so low.
Can? take the pressure so I bring out the torch.
Found my dead girlfriend on the front porch.
THAT'S WHAT DID IT FOR ME, THAT'S WHEN I LIT THE FLAME.
THAT'S WHEN PETROLEUM HELPED ME TO GET AFTERLIFE FAME.
I GOT BACK TO ONE, GOT RID OF ALL THAT'S BEEN WITH A
MATCH AND GASOLINE..
Yeah I was put down and the target of scorn.
Sure I'm a coward but I don't think you'll mourn.
The tastes I tasted was just to get away.
To escape the pain and block out the things you? say.
I stand here ready with a can of sauce.
Self-inflicted combustion and you're the cause.
A gruesome sight but I won't feel the flames.
The fire is the only thing that cleans the stains.
THAT'S WHAT DID IT FOR ME, THAT'S WHEN I LIT THE FLAME.
THAT'S WHEN PETROLEUM HELPED ME TO GET AFTERLIFE FAME.
I GOT BACK TO ONE, GOT RID OF ALL THAT? BEEN WITH A MATCH
Looking into the past and see
A totally different side of me,
I've gone regressive and derelict.
An intellectual wasteland,
But I'm doing the best I can
To keep on getting the things I get.
So where's my life?
I lost track I know,
A couple years ago
And now I just don't know
No, I just don't know
I don't know where's my life
I lost track I know,
A couple years ago
I don't know where's my life.
Lately things aren't going do well,
I feel like crap and I look like hell
It may have something to do with this.
On a merry-go-round,
Filling up while you're going down
And now I'm bleeding through a cist.
So where's my life?
I lost track I know,
A couple years ago
And now I just don't know
No, I just don't know
I don't know where's my life
I lost track I know,
A couple years ago
I don't know where's my life.
I got your letter todayHas it really been a year
Since the last time
The photograph still in its place
And yes I think about you
Of course I do
The radio is playing my favourite song
You remember the one
One day blurs to another
Time it passes fast