They caught me back in '85
When they dropped a net down from the sky
In the jungle, I was so alive
Now I just survive
Twelve monkeys in this cell with me
Eight of them are family
I fathered them in captivity
Prisoners from the start
Smeared gla** cage
As we spend our days on stage
And it's all they'll know
Nylon ropes and plastic slides
A concrete world for abstract minds
It's all controlled by man's designs
Nothing here is real
And we're all just keeping busy
In this everlasting zoo
And we're all just k**ing time
Because there's nothing else to do
I see, the life that used to be
The dancing of the leaves
As I'm swinging through the trees and I am
Searching, for a place to pay my head
The forest is my bed
Till the ring a bell to feed us
And they flash a light to lead us, in this