Great monkey man has gone the distance,
The lucky one's going to get it
Loving life now,
Living on top of
Lucky ones always get it all

Oh, I'm hungry,
Don't wanna die like a little dog
Gonna take what I can get,
I'm the monkey man,
With the great, great monkey plan

It's crazy, crazy, little man,
You've got yourself entangled

Oh, love to lie to myself,
To say everything is fine now
We got to keep it up,
Or fall behind
I got to keep it up,
Or lose the edge we found faster
I'll build higher, still higher,
I dig deeper down,
Til it's down in the ground
It's found, used up and then thrown out

Crazy, crazy little man,
What do you think you're doing here?

Big, beautiful world just for us,
Good use we must put it to
Any way I can think to use it up,
What will I tell my grandson's grandsons?

I could weave a fairy tale,
On a great bible-thumping scale
When he stands empy hands,
On his empty land,
That's what happened here
Great, great monkey man

Where did you think grey was the color of this?
You think I don't know quite what to say?
But I'm worried for myself in this

I'm hungry,
Don't wanna die like a little dog
Well, I eat what I can get,
From the monkey man
Great, great monkey man
Great, great monkey plan

Crazy,crazy man,
You get yourself turned in a pickle

Crazy, crazy monkey man,
Who is the one in the middle?

Take a walk,
Cross the ice,
Melts too quickly for us to reach the other side

It's cold in here,
But the sun shines bright
Oh, it warms this up well,
Oh, the tide is rising higher

Look, it's strange,
Floating by
Looks just like the ones,
That flow out and ride, oh, I will

Golden age,
These golden times,
Our golden days seem to have us,
Hypnotized or blind, well