The Proudest Monkey

Live at Red Rocks

Seek Up

Sometimes I feel like I am falling...
Fall back again, fall back again...
Fall back again, fall back again...

Oh, life it seems a struggle between
What we see, what we do
I'm not going to change my ways
Just to please you or appease you
Look at this crowd, nine thousand proud
Willing to punch it out
Right, wrong, weak, strong
Ashes to ashes all fall down
Look around about this round about
About this merry-go-round and round
If at all God's gaze upon us fall
It's with a mischievous grin, look at Him

Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking...
Forget about the notion that
Our emotion can be kept at bay.
Forget about being guilty,
We are innocent instead...
For soon we will all find our lives swept away

Oh, look at me in my fancy car,
And my bank account...
Oh, how I wish I could take it all down
Down to my grave, God knows I'd save and save
Man, take a look again, take a look again,
Things you have collected,
Well, in the end it all piles up so tall
To one big nothing, one big nothing at all

Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking...
Forget about the notion that
Our emotion can be kept at bay
Forget about being guilty,
We are innocent instead
For soon we will all find our lives swept away

You seek up an emotion,
And your cup is overflowing.
You seek up an emotion,
Sometimes your well is dry.
You seek up a big monster
For him to fight your wars for you
But when he finds his way to you,
The devil's not going "Ha, ha, ha, ha."

Say, Oh Say...

Oh... Late at night, with TV's hungry child,
His belly swells...
Oh, for a price of a coke or a smoke
I could keep alive those hungy eyes
Man, take a look again, take a look again, take a look again,
Everyday things change, basically they stay the same

Forget about the reasons and
The treasons we are seeking...
Forget about the notion that
Our emotion can be kept at bay
Forget about being guilty,
We are innocent instead
For soon we will all find our lives swept away

You seek up an emotion,
And your cup is overflowing...
You seek up an emotion,
Sometimes your well is dry...
You seek up a big monster
For him to fight your wars for you,
But when he finds his way to you,
The devil's not going "Ha, ha, ha, ha."

Fall back again, fall back again...
Fall back again, fall back again...
Fall back again, fall back again...
Fall back again, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
Fall back again.

Proudest Monkey

Well, I used to live in a tree
I loved it there, but that was not enough for me
So I paved a road to the city
And left the rest of the monkeys

So when I leave the (???)
I am the Proudest Monkey that I know
Monkey see, monkey do
Monkey see, monkey do

When I walk, I walk so tall...
Not bent or doubled up
Like the other monkeys that I know...
Still I don't know if I have a soul
Or if Heaven's the place to go...
Or if Hell's where we burn...
Or if sinning's what we do...
Where do I know that I'm the smartest monkey...
That I know

Monkey see, monkey do,
Monkey see...

We are the proudest monkeys...
We are the proudest monkeys...
You and me are the proudest monkeys...
You and I are the proudest monkeys...

Monkey see, monkey do...
Monkey see, monkey do...

Satellite

Satellite in my eyes
Like a diamond in the sky
How I wonder...
Satellite strung from the moon
And the world your balloon
Peeping Tom for the mother station

Winter's cold Spring erases
And the calm away by the storm is chasen
Everything good needs replacing
Look up, look down all around, hey satellite

Satellite headlines read
Someone's secrets you've seen
Eyes and ears have been
Satellite dish in my yard
Tell me more, tell me more
Who's the king of your satellite castle?

Winter's cold Spring erases
And the calm away by the storm is chasen
Everything good needs replacing
Look up, look down all around, hey satellite

Rest high above the clouds; no restriction.
Television we bounce 'round the world.
And while I spend these hours,
Five senses reeling,
I laugh about this weatherman's satellite eyes

Satellite in my eyes
Like a diamond in the sky
How I wonder
Satellite strung from the moon
And the world your balloon
Peeping Tom for the mother station

Winter's cold spring erases
And the calm away by the storm is chasen
Everything good needs replacing
Look up, look down all around, hey satellite

Rest high above the clouds; no restriction.
Television we bounce 'round the world.
And while I spend these hours,
Five senses reeling,
I laugh about this weatherman's satellite eyes

Two Step

Hey, Helena, I came to you with best intentions
You laid down and gave to me just what I'm seeking
Say, love, watch me now...

You, Helena, you walk into my days
Love gives me hope
And this no better have I felt than now, my love
You drive me to distraction

So, Helena, do you believe that we
Might last a thousand years,
and more if not for this
Our flesh and blood
It ties you and me right up...
Tie me down

Celebrate, we will...
cause life is short but sweet for certain
We climb on two by two
To be sure these days continue
Things we cannot change

You walk to me like wine
Comes to this mouth
Grown tired of water all the time
You quench my heart, and quench my mind
Helena, the way we were
Comes back to me
And if with you there by my side
Well, I'm almost of it
Celebrate, we will...
Cause life is short but sweet for certain
We climb on two by two
To be sure these days continue...
Things we cannot change

Celebrate, we will...
To be sure them days continue
God, we climb on two by two,
To be sure these days continue...
Things we cannot change.

Hey, Helena, I came to you with best intentions
You laid down a gift to me, just what I'm seeking

Love, me watch me turn away
In this celebration
Oh, if you climb away

Best Of What's Around

Hey, my friend...
It seems your eyes are troubled
Care to share your time with me
Would you say you're feeling low and so
A good idea would be to get it off of your mind

See, you and me
Have a better time than most can dream of
Have it better than the best
And so can pull on through
Whatever tears at us
Whatever holds us down
And if nothing can be done
We'll make the best of what's around

Turns out not where, but who you're with
That really matters, that really matters...
And hurts not much when you're around

If you hold on tight
To what you think is your thing
You may find you're missing all the rest
She ran up into the light surprised
Her arms are open
Her mind's eye is

Seeing things from a
Better side than most can dream
On a better road I feel
So you could say she's safe
Whatever tears at her
Whatever holds her down
And if nothing can be done
We'll make the best of what's around

Turns out not where but what you think
That really matters, that really matters... That really matters, that really matters...

See, you and me
Have a better time than most can dream of
Have it better than the best
And so can pull on through
Whatever tears at us
Whatever holds us down
And if nothing can be done
We'll make the best of what's around

Turns out not where, but who you're with
That really matters, that really matters...
And hurts not much when you're around,
When you're around...

Recently

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy,
Sunshine almost always makes me high.

Some people drink, some people don't,
Some people think, some people won't.

Some people like to smoke a bowl, some don't,
Some people do, and some people don't.

It's okay, because it's meant to be that way...
Some people do, some people don't.
Some people do, some people won't.

Some people do, some people don't. (repeat)

Recently I've been
All of content and dreaming I have been
'Cause I been lately seeing
Quite a bit of this woman live on my street

People stare and we just ignore,
And we just ignore everything
People stare and we just ignore them
And they go away, go away, go away

She comes to me,
I watch her drink,
I watch her comb her hair.
Both say that we never before have
Felt as recently

People stare and we just ignore
What's the use in hiding out
She says all the time
Let their eyes do the (worrying)

She and me go to places quiet
Where we are quite alone
Kiss and we hold together
We will be until we done

People stare and we just ignore
What's the use in hiding out
She says all the time
Let their eyes do the worrying

Walk and talk, we both do quite well
And kissing all the time, all the time
Always looking forward to much more

So we dance away, and dance around our love all day.
We do our best to contain this thing inside everyone. So fear we fear and speak to no one else...

I say, "I will give you water,
If you will share your wine,
And I will feed your heart,
If you promise to feed mine."
And so we will dance together,
Until the end of time,
Until the end of time.

Lie In Our Graves

When I step into the light,
My arms are open wide.
When I step into the light,
My eyes searching wildly.
Would you not like to be...
Sitting on top of the world with
Your legs hanging free?
Would you not like to be... ok, ok, ok?

When I'm walking by the water
Splish splash me and you takin' a bath
When I'm walking by the water
Come up through my toes
To my ankles,
To my head,
To my soul.
And I'm blown away...
I'm blown away...
I'm blown away.

When I'm walking by the water
Splish splash me and you takin a bath
When I'm walking by the water
Come up through my toes
To my ankles,
To my head,
To my soul.
And I'm blown away...
I'm blown away...
I'm blown away.

I can't believe that we would
Lie in our graves
Wondering if we had
Spent our living days well
I can't believe that we would
Lie in our graves
Dreaming of things that we
Might have been.
I could have been someone
I can't believe that we would
Lie in our graves
Wondering if we had
Spent our living days well
I can't believe that we would
Lie in our graves
Dreaming of things that we
Might have been.

Would you like not to be...
Would you like not to be... (repeat as necessary)

Okay, okay, okay?

'Til we dance away.

Dancing Nancies

Don't you ever wonder,
Maybe if things had been slightly different
You could be somebody else
Don't you wonder, maybe...
If you took a left turn instead of taking a right, You could be somebody different
Don't you ever wonder... Could I have been...?
Don't you ever wonder, anyone, anyone?
Don't you ever wonder, "Well, God, could I have been...?"
Don't you ever wonder, anyone, anyone?

Could I have been...
A parking lot attendant?
Could I have been...
A millionaire in Bel Air?
Could I have been...
Lost somewhere at Red Rocks?
Could I have been...
Your little sister?
Could I have been...
Anyone other than me?
Could I have been...
Anyone other than me?
Could I have been...
Anyone other than me?
Could I have been...
Anyone?

He stands touch his hair, his shoes untied
Tongue gaping stare
Could I have been a magnet for money?
Could I have been anyone other than me?

Twenty three and so tired of life
Such a shame to throw it all away
The images grow darker still
Could I have been anyone other than me?
And then I...

Look up at the sky
My mouth is open wide, lick and taste
What's the use in worrying, what's the use in hurrying
Turn, turn we almost become dizzy

I am who I am who I am, well, who am I?
Requesting some enlightenment...
Could I have been anyone other than me?

Sing and dance I'll play for you tonight
The thrill of it all
Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes
But I'll work it out...
And then I...

Look up at the sky
My mouth is open wide, lick and taste
What's the use in worrying, what's the use in hurrying
Turn, turn we almost become dizzy

Falling out of a world of lies
Could I have been a dancing nancie?
...A dancing nancie?
Could I have been anyone other than me?

And then I'll...

Sing and dance... la la la la hey (repeat as necessary)
Sing and dance, I'll play for you tonight,
The thrill of it all
Dark clouds may hang over me sometimes,
But I'll work it out...
And then I'll...

Look up at the sky
My mouth is open wide, lick and taste
What's the use in worrying, what's the use in hurrying
Turn, turn we almost become dizzy

Warehouse

Hey reckless mind
Don't throw away your playful begginings
You and I will fumble around in the touches
And be sure to...

Leave all the lights on
Man, the black cat changing colors
And you can walk under ladders
And swim as the tide turns you around and around

Hey, we have found
Becoming one in a million
Slip into the crowd
This question I found in a gap in the sidewalk

Keep all your sights on
The black cat changing colors
And you can walk under ladders
And swim as the tide choose to turn you

And here I sit
Life goes on, end of tunnel, TV set
Spot in the middle
Static fade, statistic bit
And soon I'll fade away, I'll fade away

But this I admit
Taste so good, hard to believe an end to it
Smell touch feel
How could this rhythm ever quit
Bags packed on a plane
Hopefully to heaven

Shutup, I'm thinking
I had a clue now it's gone forever
Sitting over these bones
You can read in whatever you're needing to...

Keep all your sights on
Man, the black cat changing colors,
When it's not the colors that matter,
But that they'll all fade away

And here I sit
Life goes on, end of tunnel, TV set
Spot in the middle
Static fade, statistic bit
And soon I'll fade away, I'll fade away

This I admit
Seems so full
Hard to believe an end to it
The Warehouse is bare
Nothing at all inside of it
Walls and halls have disappeared, they've disappeared

My love I love to stay here
My love I love to stay here
My love I love to stay here
My love I love to stay here
Sitting in a corner, wondering...
Many things could be better than this
And then I worry
Many changes have come and they will come again

Here in the warehouse... The warehouse...

At the Warehouse
How I love to stay here
At the Warehouse
Every man (and woman get alive).

That's our blood down there,
Seems poured from the hands of angels
Then trickle into the ground
Leaves the Warehouse so bare and empty

And my heart's numbered beat
Still echo in this empty room
'Til the fear wells in me
But nothing seems big enough to defend
So I am going away...

Tripping Billies

We were above
You were standing underneath us
We were not yet lovers
Dragons were smoked
Bumblebees were stinging us
I was soon to be crazy

Eat drink and be merry,
For tomorrow we die.
Eat drink and be merry,
For tomorrow we die...
'Cause we're Tripping Billies

We're wearing nothing
Nothing but our shadows
Shadows falling down on
The beach sand
Remembering once out on the beaches
We wore pineapple grass bracelets

So why would you care
To get out of this place
You and me and all our friends
Such a happy human race

'Cause we're Tripping Bill(ies)

We are all sitting
Legs crossed around a fire
My yellow flame she dances
Tequila drinking, oh,
Our minds will wander
To wondrous places

So why would you care
To get out of this place
You and me and all our friends
Such a happy human race
Eat drink and be merry
For tomorrow we die
Eat drink and be merry
For tomorrow we'll die...

Yeah... Boyd!

Eat drink and be merry,
For tomorrow we die.
Eat drink and be merry
For tomorrow we'll die...
Eat drink and be merry,
For tomorrow we die.
Eat drink and be merry,
For tomorrow we'll die...

Drive In Drive Out

Ease these walls between us
Often feel like
Tease and take for granted
All for love and to find

Oh, when I play with you quietly
All of the games that we do so well
Oh, but I wonder fall off, up again
I'm going to drive in and drive out again

Drive in drive out I'm leaving
Drive in drive out I'll come back again
Drive in drive out I'm leaving
Drive in drive out

All that I wanted was time
All of that's over, I'm going again
Pace in, walk out again till you leave
(???) don't you go in when y'all leave
(???)
Oh man see

Mumbling. (This line is usually "Sooner or later we're done/gone")

Oh man I beg you they won
Oh man I raise you, well,
I'm goin away, I'm goin away man
Oh man I beg you no
Said oh man, I beg

Sold, and over loaded
Oh sold and away
Oh sold and come in by us and gone
Lord in some this way

Oh but I'm hopelessly torn away
Oh but I've torn it off we
Oh but, leave you quietly again
I'm going to drive in and drive out again

Drive in drive out I'm leaving
Drive in drive out I come
Drive in drive out I'm leaving
Drive in drive out

Easy please often
Take all all timed

Lover Lay Down

Spring sweet rhythm dance in my head
Slip into my lover's hands
Kiss me, won't you kiss me now
And sleep I would inside your mouth

Don't be us too shy
Knowing it's no big surprise
That I will wait for you
I will wait for no one but you

Look please lover lay down
Spend this time with me
Together share this smile
Lover lay down

Walk with me, walk with you
Hold my hand your hands
So much we have dreamed
We were so much younger
Hard to explain that we are stronger

A million reasons life to deny
Let's toss them away
See you and me we
Lay down look see
She and he
By my lover's side
Together share this smile
Each other's tears to cry
Together share this smile
Lover lay down

Oh please,
Look please lover lay down
Oh please lover lay down
And you weep
Lover lay down
Cause it's over
Lover lay down
Say lover, say lover, say lover, say lover, say lover
Could I love you
Could you love me (x4)
Darling it's
All the same (4x)
'Til we dance away

Chasing me all around
Leading me all around
Leading me all around in circles
Chasing me all around
Leading me all around in circles
Say...

Rhyme & Reason

Oh well, oh well so here we stand
But we stand for nothing
My heart calls to me in my sleep
Now can I turn to it
Cause I'm all locked up in this
Dark place -- and I do not know
I'm as good as dead
My head aches -- warped and tied up
I need to kill this pain

My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will
'Til I'm dead and gone
My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will
'Til I'm six feet underground

How long I'm tied up
My mind in knots -- My stomach reels
In concern for what I might do or
What I've done
It's got me living in fear
Well I know these voices must
Be my soul
I've had enough
I've had enough
Of being alone
I've got no place to go

My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will
'Til I'm dead and gone
My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will
'Til I'm six feet underground

In my grave
Lying wired shut and quiet in my grave

Leave me here,
Leave it to me to waste here

So young here I am again
Talking with myself
A T.V. blares
Oh man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke
Or drink to reason with my head
But sometimes this thick confusion
Grows until I cannot bare it all
Needle to the vein,
Needle to my vein
Take this needle from my vein, my friend...

My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will
'Til I'm dead and gone
My head won't leave my head alone
And I don't believe it will...
'Til I'm six feet underground...

In my grave...
Lying, wired shut and quiet in my grave

Reason -- my reason
Take my head off this terror
I'm raging I'll come back
I'll see
My mind's all wiped clean
And the needle...
Make my great escape
I'll feel the cold in time
My head leaves me behind
Let me fade away

I seem caught in time
My head leaves me behind
Body falls cold
And I see Heaven, yeah...

#36

Yeah, yeah I scream...
With you on my mind so heavy and so hard
I don't know quite everything
You make me think of a better thing...
Better things to fill my day with
But they don't mean to go
Please don't be too bad with me, God
Please don't be too good...
Let some women's light, women's light
Chain my hands with me singing...

Hani Hani, come and dance for me
Whoa, whoa, sooner there
Hani Hani, come and dance with me
Only the brave
Hani Hani, come and dance with me
(feeling the night)
Hani Hani, come and dance for me
Lead me back home to life

You made Heaven turn to dirt
And dirt turn to dance on
Heaven come my way
Baby surely do
Maybe some moonlight
Maybe some, baby surely do
Maybe some moonlight
Say this say this...

Hani Hani, come and dance for me
Underneath the moonlight
Hani Hani come and dance for me

Hani Hani, come and dance for me
Come on, come on go
Hani Hani, come and dance for me
Give it back, give it back....

Oh man, i can't talk
A man was tall and once tore a piece of freedom for us all
When, then, you least expect it
Man can cut from of his own heart
For us all, that man
Don't believe it, oh yeah....
God, two men slice and dice eachother up in his place
They don't believe it...
Well leave it
Leave it lying, leave it lying, leave it lying
Got me singing
Hani Hani, come and dance for me

Ants Marching

He wakes up in the morning
Does his teeth, bite to eat, and he's rolling
Never changes a thing
The week ends, the week begins

She thinks, we look at each other
Wondering what the other is thinking
But we never say a thing
And these crimes between us grow deeper

Goes to visit his mommy
She feeds him well his concerns
He forgets them
And remembers being small
Playing under the table and dreaming

Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down, you up and die

Driving in on this highway
All these cars and upon the sidewalk
People in every direction
No words exchanged
No time to exchange

And all the little ants are marching
Red and black antennas waving
They all do it the same
They all do it the same way

Candyman teasing the thoughts of a
Sweet tooth tortured by the weight loss
Programs cutting the corners
Loose end, loose end, cut, cut
On the fence, could not to offend
Cut, cut, cut, cut

Take these chances
Place them in a box until a quieter time
Lights down, you up and die

Typical Situation

Ten fingers we have each
Nine planets around the sun repeat
Eight ball is the last if you triumphant be
Seven oceans pummel the shores of the sea

It's a typical situation
In these typical times
Too many choices

Everybody's happy
Everybody's free
We'll keep the big door open
And everyone'll come around
Why are you different
Why are you that way
If you don't step in line
We'll lock you away

Six senses keeping
Five around a sense of self
Four seasons turn on and turn off
I can see three corners from this corner
Two is a perfect number
But one

Everybody's happy
Everybody's free
We'll keep the big door open
And everyone'll come around
Why are you different
Why are you that way
If you don't step in line
We'll lock you away

It's a typical situation
In these typical times
We can't do a thing about it

All Along The Watchtower

There must be some way out of here
Said the joker to the thief
There's too much confusion
I can't get no relief

Business men they
Drink my wine
There plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line
Know what any of it's worth

No reason to get excited
The thief he kindly spoke
There are many among us
Who feel that life is but a joke

But you and I we've been through all that, yes we have
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
The hour is getting late

And All Along the Watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women all the women all the women came and went
Barefoot servants too
Outside in the cold distance
A wild cat did growl, la la la
Two riders, two riders approaching
The wind began to howl

My money take
The thief is safe
My money take
The thief is safe

No reason to get excited