Monkey

Alright. This is a stab in the dark, but i really like this rhythm and flow of this song's lyrics and insturmentals.

"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'm surprised no one has touched on it yet, but this song was written about Courteney Cox. It's about their relationship, and how he loved CeCe so intensely.

I know it sounds weird but I have always taken Counting Crows and put on own spin on the meaning of the song and what it means to me. I have always loved this song but recently it has had a greater meaning for me.

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.

To me it speaks about a woman that the speaker is in love with but doesn't know when he will see her again because she is Flakky. ("Isn't it a shame"), "Where you've 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'm not sure about anyone else, but from the chorus, this is what I get.

"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?"

any thoughts? i dont get it, i do love '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's a love song. It's about how lonely & empty you feel when the one you love is not around and how just being near them can make you the happiest, "Hey Monkey, when you open up your blue eyes, I don't know if I'm wide awake or dreaming"

doesnt he hate her now?... and didnt they write a song together? and adam doesnt like playing it becuase he hates her? or was that just another roumor?

recovering the satellites is on my top 3 albums of all time list, but this song was one of the mediocre ones. i just like the reference to ben folds, because he is freaking amazing

1. ben folds five - whatever and ever amen
2. counting crows - recovering the satellites
3. live- throwing copper