All dressed up
No place to go
Hey monkey when you gonna show your face around me?
I know all the wrongs and rights
And I just want a little light to fall on me
Hey monkey where you been?
This lonely spiral I've been in
Hey monkey when can we begin?
Hey monkey where you been?
We'll I'm all messed up
That's nothing new
Hey monkey when you open up your blue eyes
I don't know if I'm wide awake or dreaming
But all I ever need is everything
Hey monkey, where you been?
This lonely spiral I've been in
Hey monkey, when can we begin?
Hey monkey, where you been?
Just get the world off your shoulders
And close your pretty blue eyes
Hey monkey, what's life without an occasional surprise?
Got nowhere but home to go
Got Ben Folds on my radio right now
I'm in trouble for the things I need
Hey monkey don't you want to be needed too?
Hey monkey, where you been?
This lonely spiral I've been in
Hey monkey, when can we begin?
Hey monkey, where you been?
No place to go
Hey monkey when you gonna show your face around me?
I know all the wrongs and rights
And I just want a little light to fall on me
Hey monkey where you been?
This lonely spiral I've been in
Hey monkey when can we begin?
Hey monkey where you been?
We'll I'm all messed up
That's nothing new
Hey monkey when you open up your blue eyes
I don't know if I'm wide awake or dreaming
But all I ever need is everything
Hey monkey, where you been?
This lonely spiral I've been in
Hey monkey, when can we begin?
Hey monkey, where you been?
Just get the world off your shoulders
And close your pretty blue eyes
Hey monkey, what's life without an occasional surprise?
Got nowhere but home to go
Got Ben Folds on my radio right now
I'm in trouble for the things I need
Hey monkey don't you want to be needed too?
Hey monkey, where you been?
This lonely spiral I've been in
Hey monkey, when can we begin?
Hey monkey, where you been?
Lyrics submitted by 3ssence
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"Monkey" may represent an alternate sort of personality of good feeling. At the time, the narrator is in a "lonely spiral" not going much of anywhere or doing much of anything:
"All dressed up
No place to go"
Monkey might just be the narrator's self confidence which he thinks of as a seperate person sort of like an invisible friend. When the monkey is around its like there buddies, and they go out on the town and meet people. The narrator feels like he needs monkey to be able to get out, and he wonders why monkey doesn't need him too:
Hey monkey don't you want to be needed too? "
That's what i think. maybe im just completely missing the broadsdie of the barn and monkey is a nickname for an actual person or something. who knows!?
I call my 8 month old daughter my little "monkey" and the lines in the sounds always hits me with her:
"We'll I'm all messed up That's nothing new
Hey monkey when you open up your blue eyes
I don't know if I'm wide awake or dreaming But all I ever need is everything"
It always makes me think of my blue eyed "monkey" and makes me can't wait to get home to see her after working all day. I probably way off on the meaning but I don't care.
"Hey monkey where you been?
This lonely spiral I've been in"
I think this is Adam asking the girl where she's been all his life - so far, it's only consisted of loneliness, and now that she's here, he wants to know why he didn't find her sooner.
"Hey monkey when can we begin?
Hey monkey where you been?"
This to me, seems like Adam wanting to start his life with this girl, because he's waited so long for the perfect person.
Also, the background vocals are as follows for the chorus:
"Hey Monkey, (Isn't it a shame) where you been?
It's a lonely (Gone away again, that's where I've been) spiral I've been in,
Hey Monkey (Can't you see the pain that I'm in?) when can we begin?
(And Monkey where you been?) Hey Monkey, where you been?"
The use of "Monkey" can be a sarcastic way of the speaker calling her reckless or haphazard with his emotions.
"Monkey" is also a slang term for Vagina.
He wants her to pay some attention to him "I just want a little light to fall on me"
He's appealing to her sensitive side but as a monkey she can't understand him, they speak two different languages.
I don't know if I'm wide awake or dreaming
But all I ever need is....everything'
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