The monkey with the bone in his hand reminds me of the opening scenes to "2001: A Space Odyssey". I read somewhere that Waters wanted to use some sound bytes from the film but Stanley Kubrick refused or something, and the backwards message @ the beginning is an unflattering message to the director. I think the song is about a monkey seeing how f***ed up the world is or something, like the aliens that appear in the 'Amused to Death' track. I'm not sure really. All I know is that I went for six months listening to this song about 50 times a day. I was hypnotised. A similar thing happened with 'Comfortably Numb'!
The monkey with the bone in his hand reminds me of the opening scenes to "2001: A Space Odyssey". I read somewhere that Waters wanted to use some sound bytes from the film but Stanley Kubrick refused or something, and the backwards message @ the beginning is an unflattering message to the director. I think the song is about a monkey seeing how f***ed up the world is or something, like the aliens that appear in the 'Amused to Death' track. I'm not sure really. All I know is that I went for six months listening to this song about 50 times a day. I was hypnotised. A similar thing happened with 'Comfortably Numb'!