Monkey Man Lyrics by Dave Matthews Band

Monkey Man

Great monkey man has gone the distance,
The lucky ones going to get it.
Loving life now,
Living on top of.
Lucky ones always get it all.

Oh, Im hungry,
Dont wanna die like a little dog.
Gonna take what I can get,
Im the monkey man,
With the great, great monkey plan.

Its crazy, crazy, little man,
Youve got yourself entangled.

Oh, love to lie to myself,
To say everything is fine now.
We got to keep it up,
Or fall behind.
I got to keep it up,
Or lose the edge we found faster.
Ill build higher, still higher,
I dig deeper down,
Til its down in the ground.
Its found, used up and then thrown out.

Crazy, crazy little man,
What do you think youre doing here?

Big, beautiful world just for us,
Good use we must put it to.
Any way I can think to use it up,
What will I tell my grandsons grandsons?

I could weave a fairy tale,
On a great bible-thumping scale.
When he stands empy hands,
On his empty land,
Thats what happened here.
Great, great monkey man.

Where did you think grey was the color of this?
You think I dont know quite what to say?
But Im worried for myself in this.

Im hungry,
Dont wanna die like a little dog.
Well, I eat what I can get,
From the monkey man.
Great, great monkey man.
Great, great monkey plan.

Crazy,crazy man,
You get yourself turned in a pickle.

Crazy, crazy monkey man,
Who is the one in the middle?

Take a walk,
Cross the ice,
Melts too quickly for us to reach the other side.

Its cold in here,
But the sun shines bright.
Oh, it warms this up well,
Oh, the tide is rising higher.

Look, its strange,
Floating by.
Looks just like the ones,
That flow out and ride, oh, I will.

Golden age,
These golden times,
Our golden days seem to have us,
Hypnotized or blind, well.