Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Orange Monkey, artist - PJ Harvey. Date of issue: 14.04.2016
Song language: English
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 |