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Robots and Monkeys Lyrics
Where have they gone?
Where have they gone?
All the days when we didn't know right from wrong, oh no.
And know we're so grown up just like we wanted to be,
Building up debts, I wont be, I wont be.
What do you wanna be,
A robot or a monkey?
What do you wanna be,
A robot or a monkey?
What can you do?
What can you do
When money has a way of catching up with you? Yeh yeh.
So you work all day and you sleep all night,
Then you work all day, it's not right, it's not right!
What do you wanna be,
A robot or a monkey?
What do you wanna be,
A robot or a monkey? Yeh yeh yeh!
What do you wanna be,
A robot or a monkey?
What do you wanna be,
A robot or a monkey?
Where have they gone?
All the days when we didn't know right from wrong, oh no.
And know we're so grown up just like we wanted to be,
Building up debts, I wont be, I wont be.
A robot or a monkey?
What do you wanna be,
A robot or a monkey?
What can you do
When money has a way of catching up with you? Yeh yeh.
So you work all day and you sleep all night,
Then you work all day, it's not right, it's not right!
A robot or a monkey?
What do you wanna be,
A robot or a monkey? Yeh yeh yeh!
What do you wanna be,
A robot or a monkey?
What do you wanna be,
A robot or a monkey?
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They create these robots and they don't actually have normal lives (eg. 'building up debts', 'money has a way of catching up with you') and they will never experience 'normal' things like the examples given.
Some Monkeys are tested on for drugs&&cosmetics, and never see sunlight, and never live their lives how monkeys should.
Its basically saying would you rather live an 'un-normal' life, or live a painful one.
(thats what I think anyway, probably not right...)
No, I think that this song means that you shouldn't give up on your childhood dreams just because you grew up.