The Lord Is a Monkey Lyrics

Lyric discussion by oneblood563 

Cover art for The Lord Is a Monkey lyrics by Butthole Surfers

Very confusing song to say the least.

Part 1 -Ahh, the Lord is a monkey

Thanksgiving's comin on the Fourth of July In the form of a girl with a needle in her eye Well she come from out west on a nickel worth of gas She's got her mind on her money and her dope up her ass Outside of Phoenix had a gimme, broke down Burned her crack and bought a rig, she was outta that town-

A girl sells drugs (heroin?) that mess with the mind so much makes you think it's Thanksgiving during the summer. She's traveling across the country to sell drugs she is smuggling in her ass.

Part 2 -Well she was a Hare Krishna in the Ashram Bare She was sellin Good as God, had her funky ass hair She put food in my mouth and she threw me in the bed Where she cut off my balls and she sewed em to my head Now she's headin back east in a '67 caddy Got her mind on her money and her dope for her daddy-

Hare Krishna = A Hindu hymn praying to the God Krishna. Ashram = A Hindu sage who lives in nature. So the line "Well she was a Hare Krishna in the Ashram Bare" doesn't really make much since it's saying the girl is a hymn in a sage. Maybe meaning she's a Hindu? That would explain the title somewhat. The girl sold lots of drugs. (She was sellin Good as God) *The girl cut some guys balls off randomly.

Part 3 -Well I met her on the street where she beat me like a fool Then she got me accepted to an Ivy League school Well I real did good but it's kickin my ass I lost 38 pounds and my eye turned to glass Well she's lookin pretty good first week of July She's got her dope up her ass and a needle in her eye.-

The girl beat some guy up and got him high on grade A drugs? (Ivy League school). The drugs made the guy lose 38 pounds. *The girl only comes around once a year? (Well she's lookin pretty good first week of July)

So in short the song talks about a Hindu girl driving her 1967 Cadillac across the country from west to east selling drugs (heroin?) so powerful that it's makes you think it's winter during the summer and cutting people's balls off.

As for the title I think is just reffering to how Hindu's have some (what seems to Westerns) as odd Gods in this case a monkey. In real Hinduism there are some monkey related gods such as Hanuman.

My Interpretation