Lyric discussion by decayedCell 

Cover art for Once Was One lyrics by Portugal. The Man

Unfortunately I can't actually interpret everything yet but this is my opinion on these lyrics: "There were two monkeys talking sounding like little dogs They were barking and bitching about what was wrong In the world we were just spacemen taking a ride The gorilla's in his human suit reciting his lines, singing "We all, we all, we all turn on, we all, we all, we all turn off"" Two normal humans talking about something and disagreeing (like abortion, gay marriage,whatever current social problem there is). They both have their opinion about what is wrong and what is not if it should be legal or not. What the band is trying to tell us that we are just normal people in a huge universe and we are just observing the world as best as we can as we don't have any real influence in the great cosmic power. No one has the right to say what is morally right or wrong. We will all die at one point. We are not immortal. We should use the limited time we have on this planet to be good to each other even if we disagree. There is no wrong interpretation and this is what I get from the song. Have a nice day!

My Interpretation