(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-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
Ah-ah ah, ah-ah ah
Ah-ah ah, ah-ah ah
