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"I'm an ape man 

I don't feel safe in this world no more 

I don't want to die in a nuclear war 

I want to sail away to a distant shore

And make like an ape man"

Part 1:  ‘Apeman’ was created by a rock pop band called The Kinks (1963-1996). In the song, Davies sounds so fed up on the original footage that several viewers thought he was singing a certain f-word on the lyric, “the air pollution is a-foggin’ up my eyes”. Davies is upset with the modern world and declares that he wants to "sail away to a distant shore and make like an apeman". He explains how mankind has structured the world today and how “he would leave the cities and traffic to live in the jungle”.

Part 2:  Ray Davies usually sings and writes sarcastically about our way of living, but I suppose he was being serious in this song about wanting to get away from this society and to be able to live freely. This song is about how over the years we have become so overpopulated that human no longer cherish natural resources. The people don’t know now how to dealing with it all... We forgot how to live and conflict with falsities. In a world where the population keeps growing our space becomes limited.  Nature will also deal with it by increasing diseases, floods, etc. This song is also about someone who wishes to go back in time where people appreciated each other, apprehended value for one another, and things were generally much straightforward. Much of what we once knew as life still exists, but over the years it will decay. Instead of hunting, most of us work, etc. The biggest problem with humanity right now is overpopulation; anyway, it's just about going back to a life that is less worrisome of our own species, and less complicated. 

LYRICS: http://genius.com/The-kinks-apeman-lyrics