Lyrics of The Joff Lowson Trio – All The Bananas

It’s wild in the jungle, there’s enough for everyone,
The monkeys know what to leave, what to take.
They’ve fooled around so long now they’ve forgotten how to play,
They don’t know what is real, what is fake.

The drumbeat is relentless, everybody’s in a trance.
Day and night there’s no escape from the dance.
It used to be such good fun but now someone’s rigged the game.
No-one knows exactly who to blame.

We’re the monkeys with all the bananas,
And we’re hiding in front of your eyes.
We’re the monkeys with all the bananas,
And you love to believe all our lies.

We didn’t like to see other monkeys playing free,
There were bananas growing everywhere.
So we cut down all the trees. Now they beg us please
To work for one banana a day.

They’re spending all our tokens, it gives them foolish notions,
They believe they have the freedom to choose.
We print money out of nothing, we make them give us something.
They can’t win, there’s no way we can lose.

We own everything, it’s not enough, there’s so much more we need
Control of everything you do and say.
We spend ten times more for each of you than what you have yourself,
We wouldn’t have it any other way.

We’ve made it all so complicated no-one understands
All the sneaky rotten things we’ve done.
If the crooked dancing stops our system will fall down.
Nobody loves us, we’re frightened and alone.