Spanky Monkey wrote:
We tricked you! The starting line actually was the finish line! We're going back!
It's karaoke time! Oh yeah baby! I'm pretty sure you know the words by now!
Quote:
Shock the monkey to life
Shock the monkey to life
Cover me when I run
Cover me through the fire
Something knocked me out the trees
Now Im on my knees
Cover me, darling please
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Dont you know when youre going to shock the monkey
Fox the fox
Rat the rat
You can ape the ape
I know about that
There is one thing you must be sure of
I cant take any more
Darling, dont you monkey with the monkey
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Dont you know youre going to shock the monkey
Wheels keep turning
Somethings burning
Dont like it but I guess Im learning
Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey
Cover me, when I sleep
Cover me, when I breathe
You throw your pearls before the swine
Make the monkey blind
Cover me, darling please
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Dont you know youre going to shock the monkey
Too much at stake
Ground beneath me shake
And the news is breaking
Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey
Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey to life
Shock The Monkey by Peter Gabriel
Album: Security
Date: 1982
U.S. Chart: 29
U.K. Chart: 58
Songfacts:
1. This is sometimes mistaken as a song about shock therapy, but Gabriel has said it is a song about
jealousy.
2. This was the first Gabriel single to chart higher in America than England.
3. Peter Hammill sang backup. He was a member of the band Van Der Graaf Generator.
4. In 2001, Gabriel did an experiment at Georgia State University where he tried to teach 12 Bonobo Apes to play keyboards. No word on whether the monkeys were shocked.
5. Gabriel recorded a German version on his Deutsches album called "Shock Den Affen."
6. This was used in the opening credits sequence for the 1987 film Project X.
Now is the time on "Sprockets" vhen ve dance! Auf weidersehen!
