The Orange Monkey Lyrics - The Hope Six Demolition Project - Pj Harvey

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 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