I Am Curious (Monkey)

from Mismenagerie by Sean Michael Robinson

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I Am Curious (Monkey)

well that curious monkey's escaped again
from that yellow bastard we call his friend
couldn't be too long before he meets his end

well that curious monkey who we both know
they made him a jungle, they wrote him a show
while inside his resentment grows...

performing for you gentlemen
he tumbles and you laugh again
he can learn to spell, he can learn to swim
but he can't help being simian

well he grabbed the kite and he flew so high
to obliterate the pain inside
just a speck of monkey and an ocean of sky...

the world's greatest doctors, surgeons supreme
will give speech to this monkey, his life-long dream
with his first words he calls for his press team

“please let me thank these humans of status
these men of great virtue for all working gratis
to replace my vocal apparatus”

he said to the assembled, “I've tasted your fame
I've heard your applause and I've seen your acclaim
but all I desired was to be treated the same
but I'm starting to realize it's not me who's been tamed”

well they laughed till they cried and they called him a sage
and the publicists accompanied him off of the stage
as grew their applause, so grew his rage

well it's time that you learned we're all monkeys at heart
one man has his Nascar, another his art
and at peace not a one, till death do us part

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from Mismenagerie, released September 19, 2021
Sean -- vocals, guitar, electric bass
Mara Sedlins -- choral vocals, viola

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Singer/songwriter Sean Michael Robinson of The Summer Januaries.

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