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Monkey Man

by The John Whites

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1.
Orgasm 01:37
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The Doctor 06:17
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Whitney: If you call the Doctor then I’m gonna Walk out, leave you all alone Cause I can take no more, This is not my problem If you call the doctor I’m never coming back, You’ve gone and made your choice and I can watch no more, watch you slowly Turning off the light that you are John: Where is the Doctor, I’m sweating and my Eyes hurt, can’t even leave the floor Won’t she come make me whole, Just this Once I promise I’ve waited for hours one day I won’t need Her, but leaving takes its toll Oh please don’t go, just stay, how could you Walk away from us? Is that what you want? Whitney & John: When I saw your face I should have walked away and now I’m stuck again and now my head is full of the lies you told Who could I trust again Now that I’ve turned to nothing John: Here comes the doctor, the last time I swear but I need a little more and she can fix you too, anything you ask her to do Whitney: Here comes the doctor, I thought I could Leave here, run right out the door and not look back again, but now it’s here I’m staying froze like water to snow Whitney & John: When I saw your face I should have walked away and now I’m stuck again and now my head is full of the lies you told Who could I trust again Now that I’ve turned to nothing Come evaporate me now Lift my water into clouds Floating high above the crowd Til’ I’m washed into the ground I can feel it hit me now As it fills me inside out Every moment slowing down Never turning back around
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Halo (free) 05:20
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A Halo Is glowing where you go You’re in the place you want Got everything you want Now you’re down and you’re ready to go Your world’s whole You bought yourself a brand new home Now your work is done Nothing else to want Now you’re down and you’re ready to go Come around if you’re ready to go Stick around if you’re ready to go And that’s when the rain came down That’s when the rain came down Water all around, from the clouds ‘til it hit the ground Stay close Watch for monsters and for ghosts Well, the monsters scare and the ghosts don’t care All they want to do is float Oh No, Noah forgot to build the boat He was drinking instead Boy is his face red Now the zoos they have to close Come around if you’re ready to go Stick around if you’re ready to go And that's when the rain came down That’s when the rain came down Water all around, from the clouds ‘til it hit the ground Well Baby I’m sorry You’re wrapped up in all this craziness The way that you wrote me, Impossible I’m never gonna get to this I feel like I’m drowning, I don’t know how much longer I can hold my Breath Is nothing left standing? Impossible. How Could it ever get to this? That’s when the rain came down Water all around, from the clouds ‘til it hit the ground
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I Saw My Soul at the Lake, Walking by Wearing a Snorkel and a Wetsuit 04:21
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I sit from forty yards and I feel my face warm Pull grass around my eyes and I feel my taste go I pour myself in sand and I see my eye lids They brighten up and dim as the falling sun hits Out on the balcony planes hit the chimneys I talk to the grass saying please let me die I am sorry the water I had never hit you Well good thing these trees seem to last for awhile I throw some music on and the walls keep growing We slide right through it all as our lips keep moving We crossed the whole cross walk as we looked for nothing I saw you on the rocks I was feeling nothing There in my seat I knew one day this wall would fall Branches and ridges would form in its place They’re building up stables with wood from the rubble You’re coming back early I saved you a place
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Broke Stopwatch 05:16
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Out in the yard will you stomp your toes and look toward the north star Above your Eyebrows and stab at the air with the breeze you blow Your favorite taste that you used to know So you want to, play the notes to Say the words you think you have to It surrounds you, stays inside you, Doesn’t have to, play or say anything at all How many miracles must come true Got a broke stop watch that you used to use A dog is barked on the evening news and the gun shot didn’t come close to you So you want to, play the notes to Say the words you think you have to It surrounds you, stays inside you, Doesn’t have to, play or say anything at all Does Everything End? With Planets all around you The One that you stand on will One day be gone and another takes its place Another Genesis is made Another first breath in is taken New soul is awaken From a lake of cloudy air and when you breath it takes you where Your first breath in was taken New soul was awaken and loved
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The Center 04:13
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You think it’s just game, I bet you do As I’m following you And thinking of your name breaks me in two I’ve gone crazy for you And when you’re on your steps that’s when I’ll take you What else could I do? But take away your breath until your blue Tear the life from inside of you cause I’m at the Center I’m at the Center of it It’s just another block or maybe two When I’ll move into you You should have never done those Things you knew Would turn me against you Now your reflections in the knife I hold onto That I’ll carve into you You won’t recognize your face when I am Through And I hope there’s a hell waiting down there For you It’s just a little longer as you make your way And then I’m gonna rain on your parade I’m at the Center I’m at the Center of it
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Water Works Cough 03:23
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Into his head you go in aiming and pull the Trigger ‘til he’s dead His head, it spills the red mess running Into the river in his bed And if I had My way, You’d be Mine, all Mine Into his head you go in reaching and pull the Brains out once he’s dead And put them up for sale and auction, the thirty-million dollars you want to get And if I had My way, You’d be Mine, all Mine Now my tears are falling the blue it hits my toes and washes off the spit from The Water Works you Coughed But now my fears are turning and the fork goes left and right and all the dreams you weren’t in They wrap you up this time Into his head you go in aiming and pull the Trigger ‘til he’s dead His head, it spills the red mess running Into the river in his bed And if I had My way, You’d be Mine, all Mine
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Night Trap 05:38
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You swallow as it starts to bleed Now it’s every little thing you need I wanna rip off all that clothes you and let my finger tips expose you I wanna feel your kiss and hold you and touch you deep as I control you I wanna drain the life inside you and feel your vein bleed as I dry you I wanna run through the river beside you I wanna run through the river beside you Oh Baby it’s a Night Trap Oh Darling it’s a Night Trap And in the moonlight I’ll baptize you And watch the hunger as it turns you Into the night where light can’t hide you Well, once alive well now you’ve died too I wanna run through the river beside you I wanna run through the river beside you Oh Baby it’s a Night Trap Oh Darling it’s a Night Trap I wanna fill the cemetery and dig up everything we’ve buried I wanna pull me deep inside you I wanna run through beside you I wanna feel my blood inside you I wanna feel my blood inside you Oh Baby it’s a Night Trap Oh Darling it’s a Night Trap You swallow as it starts to bleed Now it’s every little thing you need
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Mine is Mine 03:09
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You call me on the phone I’m just sitting here writing all alone Just minding my own business Crossing off my hit list I swear I didn’t start this Can You Hear This? I found you in the grove The one trick pony tries to tell you what he Knows and you listen with intentness On every single word’s hiss You better hope you can forget this Do you get this? Beautiful Evil, Swallowed the People What’s Mine is Mine, Mine is Mine Am I free to go? I’ve got nothing that you want But you don’t know You can throw me trench, see Leave me crawling in a ditch, see But there is nothing that can stop me Can you hear me? Blessed is the wolf With no sheep's clothing there to cover up his holes or the teeth he likes to eat with or the legs he likes to hunt with You better hope you can out run this Are you having fun yet? Beautiful Evil, Swallowed the People What’s Mine is Mine, Mine is Mine
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Oh, Christina 07:15
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It’s Over and little did my heart know My love would never let go of you And I don’t know what it is Over And over does my mind go The time that I would once know with you And I don’t know what it is Oh, Christina It’s Over We’re bowing as the curtains close My hand will never let go of you And I don’t know what it is Over and over does my mind go The kiss that I would once know with you And I don’t know what it is Oh, Christina I don’t know what it is about you Oh, Christina It’s Over When I first fell in love with you I could feel it all around and now I’m blinded without you Feels like the crows ate my eyes through There’s a part in this for you When I first fell in love with you All my insides glowed And now I’m now wandering to find you and now I’m dying without you Where’s the part in this for you? I don’t know what it is Oh, Christina It’s Over We’re bowing as the curtains close My hand will never let go of you And I don’t know what it is
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Rain Porch 05:05
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Get off your Rain Porch Get out in the rain, Boy It’s out there I swear, Boy The love you could share, Boy Get in your car, Boy Turn your windshield wipers on, Boy Calm down your heart, Boy With your favorite song, Boy Rolling down the window You hold your sadness in ‘Til you're blowing in the wind ‘Til you're one with everything As you drive into Night Salt flats hide your feelings inside You pull off to the right And you cry until you can’t cry You’re gonna catch cold, boy Your umbrellas old, Boy The moths made their home, Boy So right now just go, Boy You don’t need the pain, Boy Of seeing her face, Boy Of watching you fade, Boy Get out in the rain, Boy You’re out in the rain You cover your face You walk any old way Away from this place Walking down the road Four Years after you were told to step out and off the Rain Porch You’re going back again Boy, you take your first steps onto The marble that you’re used to You slump down in a chair and hope that her face appears And you cry until you can’t cry
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Light Out 04:39
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I wanna play the host to you And wander by the coast with you and laugh at all the jokes by you Your timing too I wanna walk across the rope for you A hundred miles down below for you I hope my line it holds to you On tight to you Morning Bringing God Out Shining Her light out It’s bright for you What is singing If Not bringing Your light out Is it bright enough for you? Deep inside the cave you go Fire lights the way and glows The pictures on the walls that show You’re not alone But the images you see are false You see the puppet masters keep you close Wander in the cave alone The light you’ll know Morning Bringing God Out Shining Her light out It’s bright for you What is singing If Not bringing Your light out Is it bright enough for you? Get Ready
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We Sing 03:42
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Call your roll The scars on my body You noticed Right you are The younger man knowing Who you were Wide at Last Can open my eyes at last Bottled up When all that you’re thinking gets stuck Check mate up You’re lost in the shadows enough We’re Not Gonna Save the World We’re Not Gonna Get the Girl But We Sing We Sing We Sing We’re Not Gonna Win the Race We’re Not Even Gonna Place But We Sing We Sing We Sing
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If You See the Buddha 05:00
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All your hair to run my hands through All while my finger points at the Moon I’ll find a way to fly past Neptune All while my fingers point at the Moon And the newspaper says If it’s crazy what isn’t Won’t you turn away Well the truths what it is And the shoe fits come wear it While you runaway The light that blinds you Tries to shine through you All while your finger points at the Moon And the newspaper says If it’s crazy what isn’t Won’t you turn away Well the truths what it is And the shoe fits come wear it While you runaway All this time through Time was telling you Where to go, who to be While your finger points at the Moon I’ll find a way to fly past Neptune All while my fingers point at the Moon
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Monkey Man 01:53
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The John Whites
Monkey Man
Cave Paint Vol VI

Produced, Composed, Recorded and Performed by John White

“Orgasm” - Backup vocals by Alex Crowe
“The Doctor” - Duet with Whitney Mower
“We Sing” - Saxophone by Zachary Reese - Viola by Whitney Lewis
Backup vocals by Alex Korostinsky, Whitney Lewis and Lauren White
“Broke Stop Watch” - Trombone - Paul Cataldo
“Monkey Man” - Backup vocals by Alex Korostinsky
Photography by Elton De Leon Arteaga
Mixed and Mastered by Dean White
Recorded in Reno, NV

© & ℗ 2010 Here Here Records - All Rights Reserved
Released December 31, 2010

While the album is called 'Monkey Man' (Singular) it could not have been made without the help of so many of my friends and family. Thank you to the great musicians who played and sang on the album: Whitney Mower, Alex Crowe, Zachary Reese, Whitney Lewis and my Dear sister Lauren; & Dean White who mixed and mastered the album. A special Thank you to Alex Korostinsky, so rad this is where we started our artistic journey. Thank you to the countless Youtube videos I watched and message boards I read to learn all the stuff I needed to make this album, and to Java Jungle where I met all my closest Reno friends. Matt Hillery, this album couldn’t have been made without the $1,000 you gave me out of nowhere, all because you believed in The John Whites. Thank you forever.

This Album is Dedicated to My Home Town, Reno, NV.
And To My Mother, Father, Brother and Sister. Thank you for your love, support and inspiration.

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released December 31, 2010

Produced, Composed, Recorded and Performed by John White

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