Gabriel, Peter - Shock The Monkey Lyrics






Cover me when I run
Cover me through the fire
Something knocked me out ' the trees
Now I'm on my knees
Cover me, darling please
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey

Fox the fox
Rat on the rat
You can ape the ape
I know about that
There is one thing you must be sure of
I can't take any more
Darling, don't you monkey with the monkey
Monkey, monkey, monkey
Don't you know you're going to shock the monkey
Shock the monkey

Monkey, Wheels keep turning
Monkey, Something's burning
Monkey, Don't like it but I guess I'm learning
Shock! Shock! Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey

Monkey, Wheels keep turning
Monkey, Something's burning
Monkey, Don't like it but I guess I'm learning
Shock! Shock! Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey

Monkey, Too much at stake
Monkey, Ground beneath me shake
Monkey, And the news is breaking
Shock! Shock! Shock! - watch the monkey get hurt, monkey

Shock the monkey, shock the monkey
Shock the monkey, shock the monkey
Shock the monkey to life





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  1. J.... A....

    Pobre Stan Marsh :(

  2. I.... M....

    Que buena musica huy las noches alucinantes que pasaba feliz 2020 dsd lima peru

  3. B.... L....

    Spank 😂😂

  4. S.... ....

    🤩🤩🤩❤

  5. K.... H....

    What does “shock the monkey” mean??? I have an idea but I’d like to hear from someone who really knows!

  6. C.... K....

    A warning to the liberal establishment repulican attacks lol

  7. C.... C....

    2020! 💣💥👊⚡🙊👍🎶

  8. t.... ....

    One of the best videos (songs) played on early MTV. Back when they actually ran videos, had "VJs", (Martha Quinn was my favorite!) didn't have commercial interruptions and was all about the 🎶! I remember the first video which was shown was "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles. I would go out on the weekends, come home and fall asleep with MTV on. I feel lucky I was able to enjoy real art; unlike the crap they call music today.

    Thumbs up if you're listening in 2020! ✌

  9. E.... ....

    COVERRR MEEE WHEN I BREATH

  10. s.... ....

    ONE OF THE BEST!

  11. M.... N....

    🎧🎤🎛🎶🎵🎙🎚🎼🎹🎸🎷🥁🎻🎺

  12. M.... N....

    This is a fantastic song

  13. S.... B....

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    The "Silent" War Continues
    !!Hs1Jq13jV6
    29 Dec 2019 - 1:06:19 PM
    If Russia didn't [hack] the DNC (insider breach)…..
    & US INTEL supported Russia [breach] claim……
    What does that tell you?
    THE US GOV [UNDER POTUS] WENT THROUGH [STILL ONGOING] A MAJOR REMOVE/REPLACE OPERATION.
    TRAITORS EVERYWHERE.
    'DRAIN THE SWAMP' HAS 'REAL' MEANING.
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    Moves & countermoves.
    The 'silent' war continues.
    Q3758
    Biden's and Pelosi's Fighting for Their Lives
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    27 Dec 2019 - 11:26:04 PM
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    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1210750161174941696📁
    They are FIGHTING for their LIVES.
    Good people in place.
    Q2461
    YOU ARE WITNESSING THE SYSTEMATIC DESTRUCTION OF THE OLD GUARD
    Q2461
    YOU ARE WITNESSING THE SYSTEMATIC DESTRUCTION OF THE OLD GUARD
    !!mG7VJxZNCI
    9 Nov 2018 - 4:23:27 PM
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-referenced-by-man-arrested-for-threatening-to-kill-trump📁
    Why are we under heavy fire?
    Why are we so important to the FAKE NEWS media?
    Attacks coordinated?
    THE SWAMP IS EVERYWHERE.
    There is a reason some could no longer be trusted.
    YOU ARE WITNESSING THE SYSTEMATIC DESTRUCTION OF THE OLD GUARD.
    Forced exposure.
    Standard deviation broken long ago.
    P—A—I—N
    Q
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    THE PARABLE OF THE EVIL KING: A [RENEGADE] HISTORY OF HUMAN SEXUALITY ...Expand Your thinking+
    Thirteen thousand years ago, there was no such thing as a “slut”.
    Women had sex for pleasure whenever they wanted, and with whomever they wanted — just as men did. Monogamy did not exist.
    When this sex resulted in pregnancy, no one knew who the father was, and it was almost impossible to determine. If Cavegirl X had sex with every man in her tribe at some point, they could all theoretically be the father.
    And that was exactly how they behaved.
    Children were raised not by their biological parents, but by the tribe as a whole. [It takes a village]
    Every man protected and provided for every child just as if they were his own — because they very well could be.
    Life was brutal and difficult, but human beings found escape through feasts, dancing, and fucking. Lots and lots of fucking. Orgies and sex parties were common. Sex was a way of maintaining tribal solidarity and connection.
    Og’s invention... But then one day, everything changed. A very clever caveman called Og discovered the idea of farming.
    “Look!” he said. “I put these seeds in the soil and now they’re growing food for us to eat! We no longer have to run around all the time chasing after animals. We can stay here, live off what we farm, and soon we’ll have more to eat in one month than we’re normally able to hunt all year!”
    Everybody loved Og’s idea and thought it was great. And so they started farming, and everyone was happy. Soon, the tribe became dependent on the farm, and forgot all about how to hunt and gather.
    An unfortunate turn of events  Og had many sons, one of whom was named Ug. Unlike Og’s strong, healthy sons, Ug was weak and sickly, and during the seasonal mating rituals, none of the girls wanted to mate with Ug.
    So one day Ug had an idea. He decided he was going to take over the farm. If he was in control, then girls would have to mate with him. They would have no choice, because it would be either that or starve to death in the wild.
    Ug was a weak and puny man, but he was also very cunning. He managed to convince some of the other males to gang up with him and form an alliance, and together they took over the farm.
    They killed all the males who were a threat to them, and turned all the females into their sex slaves. And they invented a new social order. Ug proclaimed himself “king”. And he called his cronies who had helped him “the aristocracy”.
    End of the neolithic era Ug’s [N]ew [W]orld [O]rder worked so well (for him) that he decided to extend it to other tribes. His gang of thugs roamed around and took over all of the other farms, and united them under a common name: the “kingdom”. They claimed that the kingdom and everything in it belonged to the king and his gang — including not just the land, food and livestock, but also the women.
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  14. S.... B....

    And when people tried to resist and said that no one could “own” a piece of nature or another person’s body, anymore than they could “own” a sunset, the gang put them to death. And they put their heads on spikes so that no one would get any more funny ideas.
     Trouble in paradise Of all of King Ug’s sex slaves, there was one he liked the most: Eve. Soon, after being repeatedly raped by the king, she became pregnant. And the king proclaimed, “I am about to have the first of many sons. And when I die, my son will rule the kingdom. And his son will rule the kingdom after him.”
    This made the king’s gang very happy, for they were worried that after the king died, there would be disorder and the people would rise up against them.
    But there was one problem. One night, the king caught Eve sneaking off into another man’s tent. The next night, he followed her and saw the same thing happening again.
      This made the king extremely angry. How dare she have the audacity to lie with another man! the king raged. Am I not enough for her!
    So the king had all of the men Eve had slept with locked in a cage and burned alive. That made him feel a lot better.
      The invention of paternity... But just as the king was starting to calm down, he had a sudden realisation. What if Eve got pregnant with one of the other man’s babies?
    He could kill all of the babies… but then he risked killing his heir and successor.
    He could let all of the babies live… but then he ran the risk that one of the other men’s sons would claim to be his own son, and would steal his kingdom away from his rightful heir.
    The king sat down and rubbed his eyes wearily. This warlord stuff was more complicated than it looked.   The king institutes a new law The next day, the king appeared before his subjects and he announced a new rule.
    “From hereon out,” he said, “there is going to be something called monogomy... And here’s how it’s going to work. Women are only — and I mean, ONLY — allowed to have sex with a man to whom they are MARRIED. Any woman found having sex with a man to whom she is not married will be stripped naked and
    locked in the stocks for a week, so that people can throw rotten fruit at her and humiliate her. And such women are from hereon out to be called ‘sluts’.”
     The king’s new invention proved difficult to enforce at first. After all, people were still accustomed to having sex with one another freely and without shame or guilt.
    It seemed very strange to them that a woman should be punished for indulging her natural desires as an animal. If a woman was “in heat”, what sense did it make for her not to act on it — especially when there was always a willing male nearby? 
    But the king persevered. He kept punishing the women who broke his new rules with a series of [cruel and unusual punishments]: public humiliation, public stoning, torture, or sometimes death.
    And yet it didn’t stick. If anything, the threat of punishments just made women into even more of sluts — because rendering sex “forbidden” somehow had the perverse effect of making it even more pleasurable and exciting to everybody.
    Mr. Magic Man Finally, the king was at his wit’s end, so he decided to try a new approach.
    He enlisted the help of a rogue wizard who lived in the village, called Mr. Magic Man.
    People were scared of Mr. Magic Man and stayed away from his hut as much as possible. He was said to have no conscience, and to be very persuasive — a dangerous combination.
    Mr. Magic Man didn’t use force or violence to impose the king’s will. What he did instead, after being handsomely paid by the king, was to travel through all the villages of the kingdom spreading tall tales… which were instantly believed because his delivery of them was always so energetic and persuasive. 
    The “tall tales” strategy For example, Mr. Magic Man told the young girls that if a man stuck his penis inside their vagina, it would instantly make them become old and ugly, and then no man would ever want them again.
    And he also said that if they put a man’s penis in their mouth, it would cause a plant to grow out of their throat and the more they hacked at the leaves of the plant, the faster it would grow.
    But of all the tall tales the Magic Man invented, none was more powerful than his story about the monster.
     Mr. Magic Man would go to the youngest girls in the village and tell them that there was a giant monster who lived in the sky and who was watching them at all times.
     And if they had “boonga boonga" with any of the men outside of marriage, the monster would kill them and put their souls in a pit of fire for all eternity.
      Magic Man goes rogue... But the Magic Man was highly devious, and when he came across a nubile young girl who struck him as particularly physically charming, he would always isolate her from the rest for “private tutoring”, and add a little “something extra” to his tall tales.
    For example, he told one such girl that if a man put his penis in her vagina she would instantly become old and ugly — except if (a) the man was a wizard, (b) his penis was covered in a specially prepared “juju potion” that only Mr. Magic Man could procure, and (c) it was inserted into her anus rather than her vagina.
    In this case, Mr. Magic Man assured the impressionable young maiden, taking a wizard’s penis in this way would not cause her to become old and ugly — it would, on the contrary, give her eternal youth and beauty.
      [N]ew [W]orld [O]rder Soon, with the help of the rogue wizard and his tall tales, the king’s invention of monogamy became very popular — especially with the inferior and less attractive men who had always found it difficult to get a mate during the seasonal orgies.
    Building on the invention of the king and the tall tales of Mr. Magic Man, these sexually inferior men set up all kinds of ways to control women’s bodies and secure sex for themselves with no competition, such as arranged marriages, institutionalised sex slavery, and laws against prostitution and adultery.
      As a result, the psyche of females of the human species quickly became “dual”, so to speak, and remains so to the present day.
    The division is between a woman’s inner thoughts, emotions and desires (such as her desire to mate while in heat), and the “external persona” which she must project to others (such as pretending to be “proper” and uninterested in sex, despite going to considerable lengths to give herself a sexually alluring appearance at great personal cost).
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  15. k.... k....

    Peter Gabriel's Videos Are So Fun!

  16. M.... M....

    I shocked the monkey tonight!

  17. S.... B....

    What is it with 80s music videos and Midgets? Oingo Boingo had a few, Men Without Hats had one, was it just a trend back then?

  18. B.... V....

    Fine 1980's song, and as a bonus, Genesis became musically more interesting after Gabriel left. Less tralala on stage, and better vocals, at least untill more or less Abacab. (if you don't know what I'm talking about, listen to "Blood on the rooftops", and try to imagine the same song sung by Gabriel.

  19. g.... w....

    When he had those moving lights in concert I LOST MY MIND

  20. R.... W....

    He should have called it 'Spank the Monkey'.......

  21. C.... K....

    Tony Levin on bass guitar.

  22. E.... S....

    Growing up in the 1980's amazing music, amazing times.
    I consider this the video one of the greatest of the era.

  23. D.... A....

    Weird and stunning vídeo all the times.

  24. P.... J....

    They originally decided it would be a good idea to replace the word "SPANK" with "SHOCK" for obvious reasons!!!

  25. M.... M....

    The drumming/percussion on this song is awesome. Unusual beat.

  26. R.... K....

    I have no idea what this songs about but I'll tell you this I don't monkey with monkeys anymore.

  27. J.... L....

    this is from one of my favorite albums of all time

  28. G.... W....

    FOR-MI-DABLE ! Ce morceau est toujours aussi magnifique 37 ans plus tard ! 😍

  29. W.... W....

    Salute sojourner, thank you for the awesome UPload

    Cheers

  30. M.... A....

    chords? in key ? out of key? ....Peter at his best ! seen him in 1986 and money well spent! I salute one of the greats! thank you PG!

  31. S.... N....

    the only song who has a cover which is better than the original (coal champber& Ozzy ;D)

  32. C.... K....

    Robert piinnii

  33. S.... F....

    Thank God, a song that didn't have an Apple commercial in front of it...

  34. S.... S....

    Is this an anti-vivisection song? If not I've been misled damn it!!

  35. L.... M....

    Brilliance.

  36. d.... ....

    🤘😑🤘

  37. S.... J....

    Pete...you were SO right, to break-free of Genesis...I shudder to think of the absolute TENSION which surely would've ensued (in the studio) when Tony & Mike read what you had penned (on paper) for them...it would've been like: "Er...you want us to do...WHAT ? ?" and of course Phil would've been grinning ear-to-ear, already in the drumming-room, working on his 110th different-version of what HE thought MIGHT 'work better'....lol...but in the end, a version of this song (by anyone-else OTHER than who YOU picked to jam & record with you) would never have sounded nearly as 'Quirkey-Kewl' ! !

  38. S.... N....

    ..."I want my MTV!"...

  39. T.... U....

    The Internet killed the Video star.

  40. T.... J....

    Schock Den Affen

  41. T.... J....

    Remaster it please for spotify

  42. m.... b....

    Uncle Ozzy and Coal Chamber did a great cover.

  43. C.... P....

    I can't stop laughing because of the Southpark episode where Beebe tells Stan to play Peter Gabriel outside Wendy's house in order to win her back.

  44. S.... B....

    🤡🤡🤡🤡🤫👍👣⭐🔥

  45. S.... ....

    Bring on the 80's video dwarves.

  46. k.... v....

    Oh the days when MTV was actually Music Television

  47. B.... C....

    Two top Gabriel songs....this is one of em........In your eyes is the other; although I like most of what he's done

  48. I.... V....

    One of the best voices in the whole music industry STILL!

  49. T.... S....

    Classic

  50. H.... r....

    Who else is here for Cris pinzauti?

    H.... r....

    Whos that?

  51. G.... S....

    I tell you about magenet bullet and carbon fiber bullet how to shot a gold spy statelite 😎how to fix traving statelite housing seal dowel pin each side and sanfer

  52. L.... S....

    Original is better than Coal Chambers cover. Didn't know it was a cover till now. Ozzy was a good fit for it though.

  53. T.... W....

    TOOL liked this

  54. p.... d....

    good video peter

  55. T.... ....

    its sad that something broke in this guys brain.

    T.... ....

    What do you mean?

  56. S.... C....

    Peter always says it like it is!!!!

  57. A.... M....

    Appears that midgets attack people...
    No continue with normal life...
    Thanks for your time



    That's all folks

  58. C.... 6....

    What the fuck?!

  59. C.... T....

    TIMELESS, ABSOLUTELY TIMELESS!!!!

  60. g.... g....

    Un temazooo desde chile

  61. B.... S....

    Gotta say Cage the Elephant has Peter beat in Video weirdness with - Ready To let Go - and I'm GenX guy who grew up with MTV.

  62. S.... ....

    which connection I have to come > > > and U know what I mean . . . ;P

  63. S.... ....

    PETER . . . buddy . . . between ULTRAviolet and infraRED . . . there AM . . . '- ]
    .
    did I checked my e-mail > > > NO
    .
    I don't need THAT !!!
    ehh btw
    R.N. ur concert > > > 16-17 November 1993, Palasport Nuovo, Modena, Italy
    ON loud . . . and 9D . . . (is that imagined YET) . . . '- ]
    .
    but closer to Him . . . which connection I have to come > > > and U know what I mean . . . ;P
    .
    and that's means > > > I catch the ride . . . ;P

  64. D.... A....

    peter fafara

  65. R.... O....

    Only the greatest artists write songs like this

  66. b.... ....

    I shocked the monkey and she slapped me.

  67. k.... S....

    And so is sledgehammer

  68. E.... P....

    For the time super creepy cool way ahead of its time video

  69. A.... A....

    Peter Gabriel is like Freddie Highmore from "Bates Motel" in this clip ! KKKK

  70. K.... Z....

    Is this lip syncing to Phil Collins,

  71. a.... ....

    Crappy bassline makes me puke :(

    a.... ....

    ashwadhwani uh yea ok

  72. B.... M....

    Peter Gabriel. Pure Genius.

  73. J.... F....

    I knew Coal Chamber and Ozzy covered this song but I didnt know it was Peters till now.... 🤩

  74. S.... ....

    LINNDRUM

  75. L.... C....

    John Kincaid brought me here

  76. F.... B....

    They prefer to be called "little people". Evil little people.

  77. c.... r....

    shocking

  78. J.... G....

    I remember when this was in regular, no not just regular but heavy rotation on MTV in the early '80s. I was in high school then. Loved this song and still do.

  79. D.... B....

    They gotta bring some Shock The Monkey back !!! They should have some kick ass dance duo routines for this song and I don't dance

    Ms Monday

  80. C.... K....

    Looking back on Genesis, Colins was a driving force to churn out the hits, but it is obvious that Gabriel was the talent. After Peter left, the group started to lose their creativity & slowly slipped into a pop music machine.

  81. d.... r....

    Bad ass song

  82. N.... S....

    Always loved this song as a child - still love it, years and years later!

  83. S.... ....

    Don't you know your gonna spank the monkey.....

  84. S.... ....

    Ugh he was so handsome in his prime. So quintessentially English looking.

  85. t.... ....

    Remix Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRzli65eOKs

  86. t.... ....

    From Wiki -- " Due to its title and the content of the video, the song is frequently assumed to be either an animal rights song or a reference to the famous experiments by Stanley Milgram described in his book Obedience to Authority. It is neither, although another Gabriel song, "We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)", from his 1986 album So, does deal directly with Milgram. Gabriel himself has described "Shock the Monkey" as "a love song" that examines how jealousy can release one's basic instincts; the monkey is not a literal monkey, but a metaphor for one's feelings of jealousy.

  87. r.... A....

    Charlie García copy this

  88. T.... T....

    gabriel. Die hard fan

  89. R.... T....

    I gotcha baby😄

  90. T.... o....

    Please someone tell me when he says fox to fox, rat of rat, does he say fuckin ape to ape? Even coal chambers cover sounded like it

  91. H.... s....

    Love this song in 2019

  92. �.... ....

    0:16 the second line...four characters....two of them are wrong....

  93. A.... A....

    This guy in one of my Facebook groups dressed like the white suit Peter Gabriel for Halloween. I thought it was brilliant, but his co-workers didn't get it.

  94. J.... O....

    Sounds like a Howard Jones backing track

  95. R.... S....

    This is how music should be,I love the 70s and 80s music

  96. h.... ....

    He was the front man of Genesis before drummer Phil Collins!!

  97. h.... ....

    Best poplocking song ever!

  98. B.... C....

    one of my very favs, every time I look at it though, I can't help but think about how much younger he looked 4 years later.

  99. G.... M....

    One of the defining music videos of early #80s MTV and one of Gabriel's best songs ever.

  100. C.... B....

    I know he is saying shock the monkey but it sounds like he is saying shot the monkey tonight (lol)....

    C.... B....

    I heard shot the mountain