Peter Gabriel vs Genesis - Monkeys

This might be Genesis' masterpiece. Even better than "Supper's Ready". Its so brilliantly symbolic and works on multiple levels. 1. The surface of the lyrics is about a guy calling up someone and getting no answer. Then he goes to their house and knocks on the door (which becomes part of the drumming - AMAZING) and gets no answer. Then he flips out and realizes he needs to give up the relationship. The first lyrics:

I'm coming down, coming down like a monkey
But it's alright
Like a load on your back that you can't see
Ooh, but it's alright
Try to shake it loose, cut it free, just let it go
Just get it away from me, oh

'Cause tonight, tonight, tonight, oh
I'm gonna make it right
Tonight, tonight, tonight, oh

The average listener will think this is about a cocaine addict and the story is about trying to find their drug dealer. The term "monkey on my back" = a drug addiction. 2. But calling himself a "monkey" also, obviously, has a racist meaning. The song is also about a black man who's been promised to be helped and saved but is still waiting. He grows more angry and tired of being "good" and lashes out, no longer acting like a monkey but like a person.

The demo version of the song was called "Monkey/Zulu". Zulu are the African tribal warriors who defeated the British army in the late 1800s. The song is really 2 songs, about the guy feeling like a monkey and remembering he's an African warrior. To be fair, they probably got the idea from Peter Gabriel's single "Shock the Monkey", which is about the same thing but not as epic.

I'm fairly positive the song is about Michael Jackson, who was close friends with Collins and actually borrowed a LOT from Collins and Genesis. He famously had issues with his skin color and race and wanted desperately to be accepted by whites and eventually, like the song, rebelled against the Illuminati. 3. The song, on a personal level, is about Collins or Genesis collectively becoming jaded with the Illuminati and regretting joining and "selling their souls". Their self loathing comes from the guilt of how they achieved fame and how they betrayed Gabriel. So by copying the themes of his music, they are validating him and apologizing to him.

And focus on the lyric "Its like a helter skelter, going 'round and 'round". Helter Skelter is a Beatles song about their membership in the Illuminati and selling the New World Order for Zionists. The song famously inspired Charles Manson and his cult to form this belief "Helter Skelter", that the Beatles were the 4 Horsemen prophecized in Revelations. Manson believed a race war was coming and that blacks would kill all white people and so the Manson Family were going to side with blacks and eventually lead them because they're stupid. And Dennis Wilson from the Beach Boys started believing some of this, not knowing the racist goal until later, when he watch Manson murder a black man. But this is why the Manson family murdered Sharon Tate and all of these rich Hollywood folks. They wanted to pin it on blacks to trigger the race war and begin the Apocalypse.

In the context of the Genesis song, Collins is saying they're been unconsciously supporting and selling the same thing. Funny that Genesis, in my opinion, are a perfect combination and heirs to both The Beatles and The Beach Boys who went much farther with their occult education and political message.