{"id":40469,"date":"2025-01-17T12:47:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=40469"},"modified":"2025-01-17T18:41:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T18:41:36","slug":"throwing-a-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2025\/01\/17\/throwing-a-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwing a Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/X\/Throwing-a-Monkey-0.mp3\"> Throwing-a-Monkey-0.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/X\/Throwing-a-Monkey-0.mp4\"> Throwing-a-Monkey-0.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/X\/Throwing-a-Monkey-I.mp3\"> Throwing-a-Monkey-I.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/X\/Throwing-a-Monkey-I.mp4\"> Throwing-a-Monkey-I.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/X\/Throwing-a-Monkey-Reggae-I.mp3\"> Throwing-a-Monkey-Reggae-I.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/X\/Throwing-a-Monkey-Reggae-I.mp4\"> Throwing-a-Monkey-Reggae-I.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/X\/Throwing-a-Monkey-Reggae-II.mp3\"> Throwing-a-Monkey-Reggae-II.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/X\/Throwing-a-Monkey-Reggae-II.mp4\"> Throwing-a-Monkey-Reggae-II.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/X\/Throwing-a-Monkey-intro.mp3\"> Throwing-a-Monkey-intro.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nThrowing a monkey<br \/>\n[Instrumental, Guitar Solo]<br \/>\n(Wrench)<br \/>\n[Break]<br \/>\nInto the works<br \/>\n[Instrumental, Guitar Solo]<br \/>\nTryin&#8217; cause fireworks<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nA monkey wrench in the works<br \/>\n(Conspire to malfunc, funk, funk tion)<br \/>\nA monkey wrench in the works<br \/>\n(Disrupt the mirage with sabotage)<br \/>\nInspire to malfunc, funk, funk tion<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nInto the gears!<br \/>\n(Stoking fears)<br \/>\nInto the gears!<br \/>\n(All of our years)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nThrowing a monkey<\/p>\n<p>(Wrench)<br \/>\n[Break]<br \/>\nInto the works<\/p>\n<p>Tryin&#8217; cause fireworks<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nThrow another monkey just to see<br \/>\n(Conspire to malfunc, funk, funk tion)<br \/>\nAnother monkey that looks just like me<br \/>\n(Disrupt the mirage with sabotage)<br \/>\nInspire to malfunc, funk, funk tion<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nInto the gears!<br \/>\n(Stoking fears)<br \/>\nInto the gears!<br \/>\n(All of our years)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nThrowing a monkey<\/p>\n<p>(Wrench)<\/p>\n<p>Into the works<\/p>\n<p>Tryin&#8217; cause fireworks<br \/>\n(Inspire to malfunc, funk, funk tion)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nInspire to malfunc, funk, funk tion<br \/>\n(Malfunc, funk, funk, funk&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\nThe saying is &#8212; <strong>&#8220;a monkey wrench in the works&#8221;<\/strong> or <strong>&#8220;throwing a monkey wrench into the gears.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Meaning:<\/h3>\n<p>It refers to an action or event that disrupts, sabotages, or hinders a process, plan, or system. The metaphor implies that introducing a foreign object (like a wrench) into a machine&#8217;s workings causes it to malfunction or stop working entirely.<\/p>\n<h3>Origins:<\/h3>\n<p>The phrase derives from the literal idea of someone throwing a wrench into machinery, disrupting its smooth operation. It is particularly common in English-speaking countries and became popular in the early 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>This expression is synonymous with causing trouble or creating unexpected complications.<\/p>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/tag\/status-quo\/\">Status Quo<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/Daniel\/\">Daniel<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>Also found on the album &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/tag\/reggae-today\/\">Reggae Today<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/rombox\/Narley_Marley\/\">Narley Marley<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/\">The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/X\/\">MegaEpix Enormous<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throwing-a-Monkey-0.mp3 Throwing-a-Monkey-0.mp4 Throwing-a-Monkey-I.mp3 Throwing-a-Monkey-I.mp4 Throwing-a-Monkey-Reggae-I.mp3 Throwing-a-Monkey-Reggae-I.mp4 Throwing-a-Monkey-Reggae-II.mp3 Throwing-a-Monkey-Reggae-II.mp4 Throwing-a-Monkey-intro.mp3 [Intro] Throwing a monkey [Instrumental, Guitar Solo] (Wrench) [Break] Into the works [Instrumental, Guitar Solo] Tryin&#8217; cause fireworks [Verse 1] A monkey wrench in the works (Conspire to malfunc, funk, funk tion) A monkey wrench in the works (Disrupt the mirage with sabotage) Inspire to malfunc, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,3955,17],"tags":[546,563,4079,4083],"class_list":["post-40469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-megaepix-enormous","category-narley-marley-reggae","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos","tag-reggae-today","tag-status-quo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40469"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40498,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40469\/revisions\/40498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}