I met you in the spring of one fight,nAnd the hunger for love and a mouth full of jive,nId look at you then you'd look away,nWhen I couldn't think of anything else to say,nYou just sound sadder when you tried to sound glad,nI tried to bring it up but it'd make you mad,nIt'd make you mad,nBut I'd see right through,nCause all it really made you was all the more blue,nnWon't you take this monkey off my back,nI couldn't put forth what I had to hold back,nThen you showed up and you broke the mold,nWith a past full of scars and a heart of gold,nA heart of gold,nWith your heart of gold,nnSo the angel she came down to me and filled me with anxiety,nAnd scuffed my boots and tore my socks,nAnd filled my pockets up with rocks,nI told her, as she was about to go,nTo do take care and rock the show,nShe looked at me as she flew away,nShe said if you'd a left I might have stayed,nnWon't you take this monkey off my back,nI couldn't put forth what I had to hold back,nAnd you showed up and you broke the mold,nWith a past full of scars and a heart of gold,nA heart of gold,nWith that heart of gold,nnThen I went out and I found a friend,nWho filled my glass and talked of sin,nHe said of sin you can't escape,nBut when New Year's comes,nIt's always belated,nI remember when the world was created,nGod's plan was good but his vision was jaded,nnWon't you take this monkey off my back,nI couldn't put forth what I had to hold back,nThen you showed up and you broke the mold,nWith a past full of scars and a heart of gold,nA heart of gold,nWith your heart of gold,nnSo we proceeded to knock them down,nAnd quench our thirst round after round,nI woke in the next morning feeling quite a clown,nI shut my mouth moved to the next town,nIt didn't get better when I got there,nCause I was seeing you everywhere,nSittin' by the window standing by the door,nJust like the town and that town before,nnWon't you take this monkey off my back,nI couldn't put forth what I had to hold back,nThen you showed up and you broke the mold,nWith a past full of scars and a heart of gold,nA heart of gold,nWith that heart of gold,nnLike the Ferris wheel,nAnd the candy man,nWe'd lived in cotton candy land,nYou wanted picket fences,nAnd a pink home,nBut you knew deep down,nI had the hunger to roam,nAnd we drank more than sailors on leave,nThe sun in my eyesnOn New Year's evenNew Year's evenAt the start of one sevennI'd rather keep moving than stopping heaven,nRather keep on moving than stopping heaven,nnWon't you take this monkey off my back,nI couldn't put forth what I had to hold back,nThen you showed up and you broke the mold,nWith a past full of scars and a heart of gold,nA heart of gold,nWith that heart of gold,nnWon't you take this monkey off my back,nI couldn't put forth what I had to hold back,nThen you showed up and you broke the mold,nWith a past full of scars and a heart of gold,nA heart of gold,nWith your heart of gold,