Children of the Monkeys Who Made It
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มี.ค. 2024
- I think this is the first really “folk-punk” song I’ve written. Wrote it while sitting in class the other day thinking about resource use and how the first monkeys who got ahead were the ones who survived. Kind of crazy the world still works like that I guess. Anyways I think funerals are too expensive.
Gooseybumps at the key change! Thankyoooouu 🙂 🙂 🙂
Great lyrics and concept!
I love the "melt the plastic in my body down".
I also think that punchline about asking for more at the gates of heaven is very clever.
Its crazy to think we are all here because every one of our ancestors was able to survive long enough to reproduce. I often think about that.
Your smart! Thankyou 🙂
i'm writing the lyrics again because this is one of my favorite folk punk songs i've listened to
I'll buy my way to heaven with a credit card
Put my casket on a payment plan
Who the hell does the funeral home think they are?
Bury me under a tree if you can
Let the roots wrap around my body
No bones to find in 50 years
A renegade burial, oh, isn't it terrible?
If the debt collectors never find me here
Melt down the plastic inside my body
Put it in the recycling bin
I know that it won't make a difference
My soul's just another shipment
'Til the TV says it's special again
I want it now, it's done delivery
Process it so it's good for me
Time is money, money's time
I want it all, is that a crime?
You want a love, you'll pay for that
The rate of profit, given back
I'll kill to get ahead
And buy my way to heaven's door
And when I'm there, I'll only ask for more
'Cause we're just the children of the monkeys who made it
Be someone else's landlord so that you don't have to pay rent
Get a job and be your own boss, shouldn't even have to try
'Cause it costs too much to live, but I still can't afford to die
unsure about "you want a love you'll pay for that" and "the rate of profit, given back," it was a bit tough to make out the words there. it was also tough to format this one because folk-punk songs are by nature more inconsistently formatted than folk ballads :)
thanks for the great songs keep it up
Thanks for doing this! I think originally I had “you want to love, you’ll pay for that,
There ain’t a profit giving back”
But I kind of like “the rate of profit given back”
Very decent song and a worthwhile thought. I'd enjoy knowing what kind of class you were in. Hopefully you'll study that subject some more if it's causing you to make good songs!