Released: March 15, 1988
Songwriter: Chris Frantz Tina Weymouth Jerry Harrison David Byrne
Producer: Talking Heads Steve Lillywhite
[Verse 1]
Monkey see and monkey do
Making babies, eating food
Smelly things, pubic hair
Words of love in the air
Sparks fly, shooting out
Making sure that everything is working
I can't turn you down
We are programmed happy little children
Matter over mind
We can not resist so I won't fight it
Love is a machine
Love is a machine without a driver
[Chorus]
The facts of life[x2]
[Verse 2]
A masterpiece, biology
Smoky water, air conditioned
Boys 'n' girls and automation
Chromosomes, designer jeans
And chimpanzees and human beings
[Chorus]
Machines of love[x4]
[Verse 3]
Strong in body, strong in mind
A love machine with the facts of life
The facts of life, the facts of life
So much sex 'n' violence must be a bad design
We're stupid to be fighting, every night
The monsters we create they welcome us aboard
The best in advertising from coast to coast
The girls and boys combine like monkeys in the zoo
The clouds have silver linings looks pretty good
People fall in love like in fairy tales
I'm not sure I like, what they can do
I'm afraid that God has no master plan
He only takes what he can use
Factory life, ice cream and pie
Factory life
Someday we'll live on Venus, men will walk on Mars
But we will still be monkeys down deep inside
If chimpanzees are smart then we will close our eyes
And let our instincts guide us, oh oh oh oh no
Monkey see and monkey do
Making babies, eating food
Smelly things, pubic hair
Words of love in the air
Sparks fly, shooting out
Making sure that everything is working
I can't turn you down
We are programmed happy little children
Matter over mind
We can not resist so I won't fight it
Love is a machine
Love is a machine without a driver
[Chorus]
The facts of life[x2]
[Verse 2]
A masterpiece, biology
Smoky water, air conditioned
Boys 'n' girls and automation
Chromosomes, designer jeans
And chimpanzees and human beings
[Chorus]
Machines of love[x4]
[Verse 3]
Strong in body, strong in mind
A love machine with the facts of life
The facts of life, the facts of life
So much sex 'n' violence must be a bad design
We're stupid to be fighting, every night
The monsters we create they welcome us aboard
The best in advertising from coast to coast
The girls and boys combine like monkeys in the zoo
The clouds have silver linings looks pretty good
People fall in love like in fairy tales
I'm not sure I like, what they can do
I'm afraid that God has no master plan
He only takes what he can use
Factory life, ice cream and pie
Factory life
Someday we'll live on Venus, men will walk on Mars
But we will still be monkeys down deep inside
If chimpanzees are smart then we will close our eyes
And let our instincts guide us, oh oh oh oh no
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Naked (1988)
Talking Heads popular songs
- Once in a Lifetime
- Psycho Killer
- This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
- Burning Down the House
- Life During Wartime
- Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
- Road to Nowhere
- Crosseyed and Painless
- The Great Curve
- Girlfriend Is Better
- Slippery People
- (Nothing But) Flowers
- Heaven
- Take Me to the River
- And She Was
- Listening Wind
- Don’t Worry About the Government
- Seen and Not Seen
- Making Flippy Floppy
- Houses in Motion
- I Zimbra
- The Overload
- Cities
- Wild Wild Life