Yes, the monkey is definatly symbolic... That's as far as my tiny brain has gotten, though. ^^ I think it sounds about right that part of this symbolism would involve how people look dead (that seems to be a recurring theme in his music), but perhaps the monkey symbolises a part of one's psyhe instead? For example, if these lyrics were a dream and we were to analyze it al Fruedian like (or Jung, whatever floats your boat), it would probably represent childish dreams, or something like that... Take the line "and I fed him on gingerbread" for example. Or perhaps that could represent how society sugarcoats everything and that isn't healthy... After all, it isn't healthy for a monkey to be fed on ginderbread... Oo! Maybe the monkey is primal instinct and the "choo choo" (train) represents society, and how it represses such thing... Oh, but that is just a babble. ^^ Beside all that, it is still a wonderfully amusing song.
Yes, the monkey is definatly symbolic... That's as far as my tiny brain has gotten, though. ^^ I think it sounds about right that part of this symbolism would involve how people look dead (that seems to be a recurring theme in his music), but perhaps the monkey symbolises a part of one's psyhe instead? For example, if these lyrics were a dream and we were to analyze it al Fruedian like (or Jung, whatever floats your boat), it would probably represent childish dreams, or something like that... Take the line "and I fed him on gingerbread" for example. Or perhaps that could represent how society sugarcoats everything and that isn't healthy... After all, it isn't healthy for a monkey to be fed on ginderbread... Oo! Maybe the monkey is primal instinct and the "choo choo" (train) represents society, and how it represses such thing... Oh, but that is just a babble. ^^ Beside all that, it is still a wonderfully amusing song.