The Orange Monkey

verse 1 A restlessness took hold my brain, and questions I could not hold back An orange monkey on a chain, on a bleak uneven track Told me that to understand, you must travel back in time I took a plane to a foreign land, and said, "I'll write down what I find" Ah-ah ah, ah-ah ah verse 2 Beneath a mountain's jagged shelves, cloaked with snow and shadows sheer Plates tipped up upon themselves, the pain of fifty million years And mules and goats were running wild, a happy chaos carried on And old men and the young boys smiled, and worked until the day was gone Ah-ah ah, ah-ah ah verse 3 The packs of sandy-colored dogs, walked streets that looked like building sites But piles of rocks and dust and smog, could not block out a different light When I returned I ran to meet, the monkey but his face had changed He stood before me on two feet, the track was now a motorway Ah-ah ah, ah-ah ah Ah-ah ah, ah-ah ah