Straight Monkey Blues Lyrics

Straight Monkey Blues

Stuck in an alley with a bottle of wine

Lady Godiva and a piece of your mind

Stuck in an alley with a bottle of gin

Just praying that love would never find me again

Covering up with an old plastic bag

Wiping my nose with a wet kitchen rag

It's raining harder and it's starting to freeze

Something slimy starts to crawl up my knees

Kind of funky straight monkey blues

Straight monkey

Straight monkey

Trapped in a bar with a half finished beer

Marie Antoinette and a scar on my ear

Dreaming of something that makes me feel good

She was doing all the things that you said that she could

Watching the clock as it spins on the wall

And asking for somebody to make some sense of it all

It's hard enough to get lost in a song

Without wishing that you'd know the words all along

Kind of funky straight monkey blues

Straight monkey

Straight monkey blues

Straight monkey blues

Straight monkey

Born in a mine field where dreams just explode

Somebody dialing and somebody owed

Born in the middle of yesterdays smile

I held on forever but it sure took awhile

Burning my name on the motionless wall

Asking if somebody had someone to call

Turning my hands inside out and aloof

Just trying to meet you up there on the roof

It's kinda funky these straight monkey blues

Straight monkey

Straight monkey

Stuck in an alley with a close friend of mine

Lady Godiva and a bottle of wine

Stuck in an alley with a bottle of gin

Sweating out blood and a feeling within

Hoping that love wouldn't find me alone

Half baked half shaken taken down to the bone

Wearing the edge of a cold drunken smile

Waiting for absence to go up on trial

You know it's kind of funky these straight monkey blues

Straight monkey

Get it?

Stuck in an alley with a bottle of wine

Lady Godiva and a piece of your mind

Stuck in an alley with a bottle of gin

Just praying that love would never find me again

Covering up with an old plastic bag

Wiping my nose with a wet kitchen rag

It's raining harder and it's starting to freeze

Something slimy starts to crawl up my knees

Kind of funky these straight monkey blues

Down in my shoes

Down in my straight monkey blues