Space Monkey - Patti Smith Group

Tom Verlain/Ivan Kral/Patti Smith

Blood on the TV ten o'clock news

Souls are invaded heart in a groove

Beatin' and beatin' so outta time

What's the mad matter with the church chimes

Here comes a stranger up on Ninth Avenue

Leanin' green tower indiscreet view

Over the cloud over the bridge

Sensitive muscle sensitive ridge of my

Space monkey sign of the time time

Space monkey so outta line line

Space monkey sort of divine

And he's mine mine all mine

Pierre Clementi snot full o' c***e

The sexual streets why it's all so insane

Humans are running lavender room

Hoverin' liquid move over moon for my

Space monkey sign of the time time

Space monkey so outta line line

Space monkey sort of divine

And he's mine mine oh he's mine

A stranger comes up to him

Hands him an old rusty Polaroid

It starts crumbling in his hands

He says oh man I don't get the picture

This is no picture this is just this just a just a just a

This is my jack-knife this is my jack-knife

This is my jack-knife this is my jack

Rude excavation landin' site boy hesitatin' jack-knife

He rips his leg open so out of time

Blood and light runnin' it's all like a dream

Light of my life he's dressed in flame

It's all so predestined it's all such a game for my

Space monkey sign of the time time

Space monkey so outta line line

Space monkey sort of divine

And it's all just space just space

There he is up in a tree

Oh I hear him calling down to me

That banana-shaped object ain't no banana

It's a bright yellow UFO

And he's coming to get me here I go

Up up up up up up up up up up

Oh goodbye mama

I'll never do dishes again

Here I go from my body

Ha ha ha ha ha ha help