"Skinny Ape" lyrics

"Skinny Ape"

To the pole and he's tried to let it go
But nobody knows what they're fooling with here

There will be time and there will be a sign (Ape)
When all the kids who have cancelled time will (Ape)
Take my hands and pull me up again (Ape)
Cheer me up and help me walk again (Walk again, walk again)

To the pole and he's tried to let it go
But nobody knows what they're fooling with here (Ape)

I got bones and I got jaded legs (Ape)
Not the type that can win a race (Ape)
Live in plastic on a vacant lot (Ape)
Left behind, staring at a robot

Don't be sad for me (Ape)
I'm a cartoon G (Ape)
And my intent is to breathe (Ape)
In a new world, don't be sad for me

(Ape)
Breathe
(Ape)

I can balance on the highest tree (Ape)
You can only see outlines of me (Ape)
I can disappear or lighten your day (Ape)
Imitate and say, "I'm a skinny little ape"

Don't be sad for me (I'm a skinny little ape; ape)
I'm a cartoon G (I'm a cartoon G; ape)
And my intent is to breathe (Ape)
In a new world, don't be sad for me

Don't be sad for me (Know there is a heaven, I think I'm gonna fly)
I'm a cartoon G (But now I'm in the plastic and staring at the sky)
And my intent is to breathe (Ape)
In a new world, don't be sad for me

I'm a skinny little, skinny little, skinny little, skinny little
Ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape (Ape)
I'm a skinny little, skinny little, skinny little, skinny little
Ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape (Ape)
I'm a skinny little, skinny little, skinny little, skinny little
Ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape (Ape)
I'm a skinny little, skinny little, skinny little, skinny little

Ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape (Ape)
Ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape
Ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape (Ape)
Ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape
Ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape (Ape)
Ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape
Ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape (Ape)
Ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape
Ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape (Ape)

I'm a skinny little, skinny little, skinny little, skinny little
Ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape (Ape)
I'm a skinny little, skinny little, skinny little, skinny little
Ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape (Ape)
I'm a skinny little, skinny little, skinny little, skinny little
Ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape (Ape)
I'm a skinny little, skinny little, skinny little, skinny little
Ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape, ape

But nobody knows what they're fooling with here
(Don't be sad for me)


Writer(s): Damon Albarn, Greg Kurstin
"Skinny Ape" was first played live on the Gorillaz World Tour 2022 at the Chase Center in San Francisco on the 21st of September, 2022. Damon Albarn said before the performance, "This is a new song, inspired in part by one of those wonderful things that have come out of Silicon Valley: The 'Amazon' bot that walks down the road and delivers things.. It's something which we haven't got in my little island far away.. yet! And I saw it first in Los Angeles, and it inspired me to pen this tune."
album: "Cracker Island" (2023)
Gorillaz - Cracker Island album cover
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