I hear "Donkeys talking, monkeyS know that Eden has enough to go around"

Almost the same as you, put monkey is plural. That's what he sings, Phonetically speaking.

i hear him say, both:

"cutting our love right in two,
cutting it all right in two..."

...alternating the two lines...

and i'm positive it's "benched along with..." tword the end...


we have to remember that lyrics are variable... he won't always say the same thing and that's part of the beauty...


PeAcE...

i thought he said Donkeys at first too, but i'm sure it's don't these......

"Lift a light to heaven" is what I've always understood the line to be personally. Within the religious/spiritual context of the song, seems to fit just as good if not perhaps better than "lift an eye". Also adds a small connection to 10,000 Days (Wings part 2) where he mentions using the light he was given by his mother to guide her to heaven.

hey, here's what i got

cut it, divide it all right in two
gotta divide it all right in two
cut it, divide it all right in two
gotta divide it all right in two


yup.....

Are you guys really fuckin serious? UMMM... As others have said, it's obviously

DON'T THESE talking monkeys know that Eden has enough to go around?

DAR!

hey hey hey
unnecessary harshness

I KNOW it's "don't these" but until looking at the forum, I couldn't figure out why it sounded like DONKEYS TALKING (and the coincidence between this and Maynard's myspace blog was funny enough to post... for me at least)

so, no, I'm not fucking serious

Ok ok sorry for the harshness, sometimes I get so riled up. Aside from the "f" word it wasn't all that harsh.

I didn't figure you were serious because from your other posts you seem pretty intelligent.... but you shouldn't be filling some of the weak and impressionable minds with this garbage. They'll take it seriously and run with it to some other thread where they'll argue with some guy for 3 pages about the deep meaning of Donkeys talking monkeys. And that's just scary.

I hear "cutting my love right in two".

I hear "cutting our love right in two"

Pretty close.

I just hear "cutting it all right in two". For some reason this part of the song doesn't seem that important for me to be nailed down though. Maybe because most all of the suggestions seem to fit well enough within the song's lyrics that it's not much of a big deal.

Ditto.

Nope, I don't hear that at all. I've listened for love and I can't hear it. I think he's saying now "cut and divide it all right in two" I think he's singing that part kind of fast "cut and divide" and the "l" sound we hear is the sound of "all".

Xerox

(a stronger agreement than ditto)

i hear from the very first listen and still do, "cut my whole right in two"

Dang, I have the live in dallas and they didn't do this song...

You can hear that tough part pretty clear on the 6/6/06 recording:

Fight 'til they die
Over sun, over sky
They fight 'til they die
Over ground, over air
They fight 'til they die
? Over ?, over love/blood ? <---hard to hear
They fight 'til they die
Over what? For the/our rising*

*He definitely says "rising" in that last line. It's pretty clear on most live recordings.

And this is based on the show in Germany, not the album version. My recommendation is to just go with whatever you feel like singing at the time, since that's obviously what Maynard does.

GEt the Toronto live version.

Angels on the sideline,
Puzzled and amused.
Why did Father give these humans free will?
Now they're all confused.

Don't these talking monkeys know that Eden has enough to go around?
Plenty in this holy garden, silly monkeys
Where there's one you're bound to divide it
Right in two

Angels on the sideline,
Baffled and confused.
Father blessed them all with reason,
And this is what they choose?

Monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys give them thumbs they forge a blade
And where there's one they're bound to divide it
Right in two

Monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys give them thumbs they make a club,
And beat their brother down.
How they survive so misguided is a mystery.
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability,
To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here.

Cutting our love right in two
Cutting our love right in two
Cutting our love right in two
Cutting our love right in two

Fight..over clouds, over wind, over sky
Fight over your lie, over blood, over anything
Fight over love, over sun, over nothing
Fight till they die,
for their ending,

Angels on the sideline again,
Mixing love with patience and reason.
Angels on the sideline again,
Wondering where this tug of war will end.

Cutting our love right in two
Cutting our love right in two
Cutting our love right in two
right in two

right in two

Gotta divide it all right in two.

Angels on the sideline
Puzzled and amused
Why did father give these humans free will
Now they're all confused

Don't these talking monkeys know that Eden has enough to go around?
Plenty in this holy garden, silly ol' monkeys wonders when you're bound to divide it..Right in two

Angels on the sideline
baffled and confused
father blessed them all with reason
and this is what they choose

Monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground
silly monkeys give them thumbs they forge a blade
and brothers wander bound to divide it

right in two

right in two

Monkey killing monkey killing monkey over pieces of the ground
silly monkeys give them thumbs they make a club
and beat their brother..down

how they survive so misguided is a mystery..here
repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability
to lift an eye to heaven conscious of his fleeting time here

Cut and divide it all right in two x4

Fight over....etc (way too many guess on this part)

Angels on the sideline again
been too long with patience and reason
angels on the sideline again
wondering when this tug of war will end

cut and divide it all right in two x3
right in two

right in two

Cut my whole right in two...sounds like it/makes sense/relates to the idea (geometrically) of wholeness/unity and division and is a simplistic yet effective metaphor. cut love? doesn't really make sense. cut and divide? kinda redudant. cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort.

I was thinking cut and divide was redundant too at first, but then I started thinking and when you cut something, that doesn't necessarily divide it. In most cases, if gravity doesn't pull the 2 halves away like say if you're were cutting an apple, the two halves would fall away from each other but if you're cutting say a loaf of bread into two halves, you'd have to physically move them apart to "divide them". So "cut and divide it all" can work logically.

the end result is "right in two" so i infer whatever came before was one. i picture the division symbol "/" as a knife. knives cut things. the end result is two separate entities (1/2=.5 if and only if 2*.5=1 if and only if 1/.5=2) i don't think it matters if now the loves of bread are a nanometer apart or 3 lightyears apart. Now if we move on to Fig Newtons it gets dicey cuz you'll get, 'cut my fig newton right in two' 'put my fig newton right back to one' and so on and so...they are free fat free...

LOL, you're cracking me up! I was thinking that too..about stickey things like fig newtons and I agree that true once something is cut, it's essentially divided..but still..if two things are a nanometer apart, they still to the human eye appear to be whole, until you divide them apart so you can see the difference.

how bout "live the night in heaven" instead of "lift an eye to heaven". I'm sure it's already been said...so sorry in advance.

Ok, lets look at that.

repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to
live tonight in heaven conscious of his fleeting time here...

First off, why just "tonight"? if we didn't "squander" that chance, how many of us has the ability to "live one night in heaven"? And if it's a metaphore for something else, what ability is it that we're squandering? Since this song is from the angel's point of view, why would they be questioning why we squander just a night in heaven? That doesn't make much sense in the context of the song.

The angels love and fear their maker "The Father" and they're credulous at the fact that we humans even though we know better and that our time is short here (conscious of his fleeting time here), we still don't "lift an eye to heaven" which could mean pray to god, follow his laws or even acknowlege his existance to show some form of reverence to him so that when we die, we go to heaven to be with him.

So in that context, doesn't "lift an eye to heaven" make more sense?

Okay, I'm gettin carried away with myself. All that crap I used about 1/2=.5 was just arbitrary. I just assumed the "2" were equal. I could've easily split the pie like .25 and .75, where there are two separate pieces but the combination of the two is one............................................... .................................................. ..................
But to be serious for a second, I was just in the middle of baking an apple newton loaf of bread (with all the experimentation going on) when God called me up on my cell phone. I couldn't get there in, so he left a message...he told me everything. I don't have proof of this cuz when I tried to save God's number my phone blew up....I shouldn't egg people on. I really could've used them in my apple newton bread. Well, I gotta go. It's calling me (calling me) it's calling me (calling me)...the bread that is, not the phone. I still have to buy a new one.

* i'm not maynard, so i don't really know...just having fun....

'cut my whole right in two' forever!

I've watched "Right in Two" lyrics change from "cutting our love right in two" to "cutting it all right in two" to "cut and divide right in two" (wtf?) . . . and I don't hear any of it.

Does anyone else hear "cut like an '?' right in two"?

I happened to see this right when it popped up while listening to the song, and I don't hear any sounds or interval to allow for another word in the place of your question mark when I stretch to hear the other words you've suggested as though those were the lyrics.

Neither at 3:37+ nor 7:37+.

There's a different section devoted to "What's he saying?" parallel to the sections for each of the new songs, that is, at the top of the same list.

I'd like to throw in my two cents with the chourus. I've listened to the end part a few times now and I can't for the life of me here "divide" anywhere. Personally, I'm hearing "cuting it all right in two." Now, phonetically, when Maynard hits the pause between "it" and "all" he rolls on it a bit... so sonically, he's cutting the vocals in two. This would fit thematically at least. Too many adverbs in my description up there but I hope that paints the picture a little.

As for the "fight over" section, I'm still having trouble with that, especially the end.

Listen clearly again, I think he says "gotta divide it all right in two".

at the "Cut it all right in two" part I swear I hear somthing in between "it" and "all". To me it sounds like he is saying "right" but it doesn't make sense.

[They]
Fight till they die
Over earth
Over sky
They fight and collide
Over ground
Over air
They lie over love
Over sin
Over blood
They fight till they die
Over what?
For the rising


The last three lines might not be spot on. Actually, I think we can do better than this on the last three ones. Anyone?

Before ever reading any online lyrics (which prompted me to these forums) I was convinced that the nearly final line was "Wondering when this talk of war will end."

Now after reading the lyrics here, I can hear both, common for a lot of Maynard's lyrics.

Simply because of the references to talking monkeys prior in the song, I think this could be a valid interpretation...but am I way off base here?

I think it sounds more like Tug, it would make more sense along the lines of war, you know? The angels are helpless on the sidelines, watching to two opposing sides go against eachother. But that's just me =)

You could very well be right. Although I heard "tug of war"... I think, perhaps, the act of engaging in a game of tug of war is more potent image for what it is we humans do amongst ourselves. Talk of war is a more passive phrase, but that would, also mock our tendency to be spectators and braggarts - and even if we aren't actively engaged in war, we're ready to talk about it, plan it, think about... always ready....for a good fight!

yeah that sounds right, nice one

The "right" sound that you hear is actually "my." "All" is "love." "Cut it," is "Cutting."

"Cutting my love right in two"
(Lamented in the distorted voice of the father)

Just my opinion.