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Monkey Gone to Heaven Lyrics
There was a guy
An underwater guy who controlled the sea Got killed by ten million pounds of sludge From New York and New Jersey This monkey's gone to heaven This monkey's gone to heaven This monkey's gone to heaven This monkey's gone to heaven The creature in the sky Got sucked in a hole now There's a hole in the sky And the ground's not cold And if the ground's not cold Everything is going to burn We'll all take turns I'll get mine, too This monkey's gone to heaven This monkey's gone to heaven This monkey's gone to heaven This monkey's gone to heaven Rock me, Joe! If man is 5 If man is 5 If man is 5 Then the devil is 6 Then the devil is 6 Then the devil is 6 Then the devil is 6 And if the devil is 6 Then God is 7 And God is 7 And God is 7 This monkey's gone to heaven This monkey's gone to heaven This monkey's gone to heaven This monkey's gone to heaven This monkey's gone to heaven This monkey's gone to heaven This monkey's gone to heaven This monkey's gone to heaven This monkey's gone to heaven |
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01-30-2005
Charles, like most other interesting artists, make heavy use powerful symbols in his work.
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02-02-2005
God is 7 is the most interesting. In the bible, 7 or anything divisable by 7 is a number for perfection.
god rested on the 7th day after creating earth,
god reminded abraham of their covenant 7 times,
after moses died, josua led the isrealites to the promised land, but a new city was at their holy land so joshua and the isrealites marched around the the walls of Ai 7 times a day for 14 days, and on the 14th day, god caused Ai's walls to crumble
The 14 steps listed in the haggadah,
jacob served laben for 7 years to marry rachel, but got tricked into serving another 7 years,
70 people came with jacob to egypt
and there are plenty more 7 references in the bible.
the number 40 is a lot like 7 also, but 40 is more of a sign of revelation or change, where 7 is just perfection
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02-02-2005
"Man -- was created on the fifth day of the first "week".
God -- 7 is the biblical number of perfection,
Therefore, the Devil -- 6, as it is one less than 7 and therefore imperfect, but more powerful (one more) than Man (5). "
i want to add that man was not created on the 5th day, they were created on the 6th day. On the 6h day, god also created land animals. on the 5th day, god created the fishes and the birds
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02-11-2005
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02-14-2005
youre over-analyzing the HELL out of this song. just listen to it and smile because it rocks.
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02-15-2005
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03-01-2005
-Frank Black
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03-16-2005
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03-23-2005
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04-01-2005
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04-01-2005
6 is one less than God. 6 is the number of the devil. 666 is the mark of the devil.
And 5 is man--created on the 5th day.
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04-02-2005
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04-26-2005
About the only thing you can interpret from those lines and this song, if anything, is that we (man) are fucked. We're at the mercy of ourselves and that we will eventually destroy ourselves. Whether it be through fucking up our environment, global warming, or nuclear warfare. Take your pick. This is because the power of evil (the devil) within us is powerful. Yet there is hope because God, apparently, is more powerful still and when we monkeys do fuck ourselves over, even though we acted worse than animals on earth, he will still accept us in heaven.
And even that is stretching the interpretation.
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05-10-2005
Allegedly we humans are EVOLVED from apes and thus monkeys. However, I think what also is possibly being said in this song is that we really haven't evolved that much at all. We are still no better (perhaps even worse) than our animal ancestors since we seek to destroy ourselves and our world in various ways. Pollution, killing the environment, warfare. In the writers mind we have changed form, but are still no better than monkeys. For all our technological advances, we have failed to evolve in the ways that we need to.
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05-11-2005
The second verse is pretty self explantory. It is about we pollute the Earth with the everyday things that we do, i.e. CFC's and that making holes in the sky. "The ground's not cold" is a reference to the world getting warmer, and by "we'll all take turns" they are saying we should all do whatever we can to help the environment.
The last verse appears to be confusing everyone. I always thought that man, devil and god we're being named in order of greatness, (5.6,7 etc) but upon reading the other comments I am not so sure. I now think that its in order of how bad each thing is... man's done some pretty evil stuff, man is 5 on the evil scale, the devil is the centre of all pain and suffering and bad things, devil is 6, and God, for creating humans, the world and all the things in it, he is more responsible for pain, suffering and destruction than man and devil put together. I dont think I explained that very well, but try to make what sense you can of it.
Wow. My very own analysis on Monkey Gone To Heaven. Now I feel good ^_^
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05-13-2005
im pretty sure the man being 5, the devil 6 and god 7 is a famous quote from some book [not the bible].
monkey gone to heaven means that monkey they sent into space?
and imo i think that its about us destroying our gods:
we kill posidieon[i think thats spelt wrong] with water pollution.
we destroy heaven with global warming[ heaven in the sky, we put holes in the sky?]
and... because we are killing our gods we're gonna go to hell [the ground burning?]
just my opinion.
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08-04-2005
I think what Frank Black is saying is that we " monkeys" are arrogant monkeys because we think of nature as something that we can exploit. Because, as we all know humans are not natural, (they are higher up in the hierarchy) and we don't need to think about the affects of nature . So, it is all about man destroying nature, when in fact we are really apart of nature. We'll get ours too. IT's about how man thinks of itself as different. You know what I am saying? This is all about the destruction of nature, and the interrelatedness this has to man.
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08-23-2005
"Three-six-nine, the goose drank wine
The monkey chew tobacco on the street car line
The line broke, the monkey got choked
And they all went to heaven in a little row boat"
I've always thought this was an environmental song, and that the monkeys are we humans. I kind of hate to read too much into a scratch lyric, but Frank obviously tapped into something deep, even if he didn't mean to.
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09-10-2005
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09-16-2005
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10-18-2005
If God is 7
Then the Pixies are 8
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12-24-2005
it's like, no matter what we do in all the goodness or badness we give off in our life, we're ultimately nothing, so fuck it, this monkey's gone to heaven.
to be 100% honest with you what this song really reminds me of is smoking pot, falling asleep, waking up, smoking more pot, everday until the end of summer, and then getting my heart broken.
i love this song but listening to it is hard because it means a whole lot of paradoxical nothingness to me.
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12-24-2005
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01-05-2006
Anyway, as far as Francis's (or Charles') intention goes, I think he truly came upon the 7 and heaven thing as he says (saw it on a taped interview) and the environmental thing may have been his pseudo-focus in the song. Also, the idea about a memory hook on the line "This monkey's gone to heaven" seems reasonable, as does the simple 5-6-7 numerological characterization of heirarchy (man-satan-God...don't even get me started on the numbers thing--it would rival deddaltas ).
However, that's where the Pixes' influence ends on the subject of meaning. Just as the biblical prophets said a lot of things in their prophesies that they didn't understand the impact of, so I think the Pixies (as any other artists) say a lot of things that have an impact beyond their imaginings. (Yes, I'm sure Black would be quite entertained by this discussion.)
The Pixies are truly mesmorizing. I've only recently become aquainted with the band and it's already had a strong influence on me. I know most of you will tune out at this point, but it's my belief that (perhaps unbeknownst to them) the band has been used to further worldly (ie. ungodly) ends. "Where is my mind?" is a perfect example--it truly characterizes an undisciplined mind and where that can lead us. The magic of the music and the dependance on man's wisdom in figuring out the lyrics, etc. sucks us in and keeps us from the true light God desires for us. I think it's like the age-old cliche about selling your soul for fame--I've been a victim of this incapacitating Pixie-like call (ooooh-ooh) to ego as a former musician and it's hard to break free--impossible without God in my life. The eventual payoff of the call to ego was the burning on the non-cold earth, but, allowing Jesus to fight off the devil, I can have communion with the Creature in the sky (God) through the hole in the sky paved by Jesus. So can you.
Black can spout off as much as he wants about the simplicity of religion and those who follow it and people can try to act smart and debate about the whys and wherefores of how we evolved from monkeys--I don't have the answers, BUT
THIS monkey's gone to heaven... (or will go, thanks to our savior, Jesus)
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01-12-2006
To understand it we must examine the primary and secondary audiences, personally I feel that the primary audience is a secular inteligensia, for whom he chronicals man's expansion away from religion. We initially kill Poseidon with sludge (propoganda? and attacks on "heathen faiths") and then Kill off Zeus/God and then in the overall rankings we are closer to the simplicity which is 1. 1 being a greater knowledge. 5, 6 and 7 are used to illustrate our rankings but also to envoke the image of god and the devil. These are not coincidental, the are merely pseudo-random.
The secondary audience is the religious masses who are unable to break free of their mind-numbing masters. He says that the creature leaves a hole in the sky, meaning that man will be betrayed by his faith in a time of need and he will be burned. Thus unless we are able break free we shall all take our turns and even the author will get his unless he realizes the flaws in our human culture.
And it even functions on a third level as those who understand the lyrics completely are closer to 1 while those unable to comprehend it will assume it to be some text that is suportive of religions, and that these individuals will be burned thus illustrating Darwinian Evolution in action.
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