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
[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]
