Story Behind The Song

My elderly mother and I were once having a discussion about the neighbourhood in which I grew up. She told me, "well, our house was in a nuisance ground" . . . nuisance ground? A dump . . . reclaimed land that was once a landfill. This idea became the op

Song Description

An alt pop/rock song that poses the predicament of a person who goes through life unable to rise above his past, determined by family members who could not rise above the predicaments of their lives. The melodic bass part is integral to the deceptive chee

Lyrics

Monkey See, Monkey Do
by Wilfred Kozub

I was born in a nuisance ground (nuisance ground, nuisance ground)
Raised by pigeons and the dogs in town (dogs around, dogs around)
All I had to eat was the scraps I found (scraps I found)
And my instinct to survive kept me alive.

I was innocent I was innocent
Monkey see, monkey do and I do it again
Monkey see, monkey do

I learned my tricks from the inside out
I am an expert on things that I don?t know anything about
Blew off my job, walked out on my wife
Left my kids and that?s the end of my life
I can?t help myself, I can?t help myself

I?m an innocent I?m an innocent

Spoken: ?I was doomed, man.?
(And I do it again.)
I was born in a nuisance ground
Raised by pigeons and the dogs in town
Burn my bridges and they all fall down
Oooo ? oo ooo

Monkey see, monkey do and I do it again
Monkey see, monkey do and I do it again (nuisance ground)

(tag) Dogs around, dogs around . . .
. . . Monkey see, monkey do
Raised by pigeons and the dogs in town . . .
. . . Dogs around, dogs around