The Coral - Monkey to the Moon (from the 'Mysteries & Rarities' disc of the Singles Collection released in September 2008)
"We were recording The Invisible Invasion, and this was the first track we did with producers Geoff Barrow and Ade Utley, we went to their studio in Bristol and just knocked this one down and Geoff mixed it, and I think this is the monitor mix. We were so in tune, we all chipped in on the writing, it started out as a kind of Beefheart tune. We usually all arrange a tune but with this one we all wrote it together too, we did it all as one thing. You have to be fully functioning as a unit to be able to work that way. We came up with the title in a taxi somewhere, we were laughing at it, and just wrote a tune around it." - James Skelly, The Coral
Lyrics:
Zoom, zoom goes the monkey to the moon
Zoom, zoom goes the monkey to the moon
High, high goes the lion in the sky
Zoom, zoom goes the monkey to the moon
Watch that ape man climb
Sure has a really good time
Too proud of his primate soul
And the powers that he can't control
Never worked in a factory
Happy swinging from tree to tree
And then
Zoom, zoom goes the monkey to the moon
Zoom, zoom goes the monkey to the moon
High, high goes the lion in the sky
Zoom, zoom goes the monkey to the moon
The king of all the Kongs
Is honest as the day is long
But the reason won't seem so clear
When you're watching him disappear
Never worked in a factory
Happy swinging from tree to tree
And then zoom, zoom
Never worked in a factory
Happy swinging from tree to tree
And then zoom, zoom
Zoom, zoom
Zoom, zoom
Save me a place in outer space, won't you save me a place in outer space
Zoom, zoom
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