Dance, Monkey, Dance

Think you know me
You don't know me
Not the slightest
You'd better think again
Never considered you an enemy of mine
That's a luxury I'd only give a friend

See
You lost that privelege
With your ventriloquistic speaking on my behalf
Despite your dummy rhetoric from my lips
Always being well worth it for a laugh

Funny as it is being thrown overboard
Chummed to the sharks
Left alone for myself to fend
I always manage to walk ashore
On my own two feet
Stronger in the end

While you wrap it up
Slap a price tag on
So damn easy to sell another brother out
Soapbox opportunist
Always on the lookout for another patsy
Someone you can railroad
Drown in shout

Tell me what's it like
Please do tell
Preaching to so many deafened ears
Tell me if it is frustrating as hell
To be shunned like a leper by your peers
Maybe you'll learn your lesson some day
Perhaps we'll give it a few more years
You'd think it would've already sunk in

Like the Titanic

No such luck
Thanks to your post traumatic manic depressive fears
Claustrophobic
Mind in a box
Packaged in bubble wrap
Can't see beyond your own conflicting arguments
Like icebergs in the night
They're the trap

On collision course as usual
Destined to sink into oblivion
Oblivious of your own murky perspective
You can't leave it alone
Let it die a natural death
You've forgotten how to sincerely live

Now you want to tangle
Push your angle
By knocking me over the railing
Off my feet
Steal the lifeboat
Every man for himself
A Greek tragedy straight from Crete

As you sail away
Sinking into the Drink
Plugging every self inflicted leak that springs eternal
I'm already suntanning on the beach
Receiving kisses from every native girl

Hoowah!

I said dance
Monkey
Dance
Give me more of your juvenile monkey rants
Com'on and dance for me
Monkey
Do it really funky

Put on your bunny slippers
Your Wal-Mart shopping pajama pants
Do it really funky
Dance for me
Monkey
Just do it and
Dance