Record Tracklist

1. The Orange Monkey
   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 50 million years

   and mules and goats were running wild.
   A happy chaos carried on
   and old men and young boys smiled,
   and worked until the day was gone.

   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.