dance monkey dance Lyrics

Intrinsic in the nucleus bred into the bone

What DNA has made of you embrace it as your own

Beast you cannot educate savage in the home

Kin from whom you look away children you disown

In the deep blue sea down the wishing well

In the piss stained sawdust and the peanut shells

Dance monkey dance

In the hot Mojave at the point of a gun

In the orbit of Orion 'neath the endless sun

Dance monkey dance

Tattooed from within

Stigmata underneath the skin

What you will be what you been

Encoded on a chain therein

Dance monkey

Ridden hard and put up wet tired to the bone

In sweat and blood you pay the debt and come into your own

In the valley of the ancients on a plane out of time

In the corridors of bedlam with no reason or rhyme

Dance monkey dance

In a burning ring of fire semi–crazed and blind

In the undulating canyons of the primate mind

Dance monkey dance

Choking on the medicine

Bitter pill and saccharine

Pulling out of the tailspin

Waxing happy on the wages of sin