The Orange Monkey
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"
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
The packs of sandy-coloured 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
The Orange MonkeyLRC歌词
[00:18.06]A restlessness took hold my brain
[00:22.06]And questions I could not hold back
[00:26.12]An orange monkey on a chain
[00:30.27]On a bleak uneven track
[00:34.24]Told me that to understand
[00:38.25]You must travel back in time
[00:42.06]I took a plane to a foreign land
[00:46.16]And said, "I'll write down what I find"
[00:53.69]
[01:02.37]Beneath a mountain's jagged shelves
[01:06.33]Cloaked with snow and shadows sheer
[01:10.25]Plates tipped up upon themselves
[01:14.10]The pain of fifty million years
[01:17.99]And mules and goats were running wild
[01:22.09]A happy chaos carried on
[01:26.02]And old men and the young boys smiled
[01:30.04]And worked until the day was gone
[01:37.79]
[01:46.30]The packs of sandy-coloured dogs
[01:50.20]Walked streets that looked like building sites
[01:54.01]But piles of rocks and dust and smog
[01:58.07]Could not block out a different light
[02:02.10]When I returned I ran to meet
[02:06.01]The monkey, but his face had changed
[02:09.98]He stood before me on two feet
[02:14.17]The track was now a motorway
[02:21.70]
