Gorillaz - Fire Coming Out of the Monkey’s Head lyrics
[Gorillaz - Fire Coming Out of the Monkey’s Head lyrics]
Once upon a time at the
Foot of a great mountain
There was a town where the
People known as Happyfolk lived
Their very existence a mystery to
The rest of the world
Obscured as it was by great clouds
Here, they played out their peaceful lives
Innocent of the litany of excess and violence
That was growing in the world below
To live in harmony with the spirit of
The mountain called Monkey was enough
Then one day, Strangefolk arrived in the town
They came in camouflage
Hidden behind dark glasses
But no one noticed them
They only saw shadows
You see, without the Truth of the Eyes
The Happyfolk were blind
Falling out of aeroplanes and
Hiding out in holes
Waiting for the sunset to come
People going home
Jump back from behind them and
Shoot them in the head
Now everybody dancing, the dance of the dead
The dance of the dead, the dance of the dead
In time
The Strangefolk found their way into the
Higher reaches of the mountain
And it was there that they found the
Caves of unimaginable sincerity and beauty
By chance
They stumbled upon the place where all
Good souls come to rest the Strangefolk
They coveted the jewels in these
Caves above all things
And soon they began to mine the mountain
Its rich seam
Fueling the chaos of their own world
Meanwhile, down in the town
The Happyfolk slept restlessly
Their dreams invaded by shadowy figures
Digging away at their souls every day
People would wake and stare at the mountain
Why was it bringing darkness
Into their lives?
And as the Strangefolk mined deeper
And deeper into the mountain
Holes began to appear
Bringing with them a cold
And bitter wind that
Chilled the very soul of the Monkey
For the first time
The Happyfolk felt fearful
For they knew that soon the Monkey
Would stir from it's deep sleep
And then came a sound, distant at first
It grew into castrophany
So immense that it could be
Heard far away in space
There were no screams, there was no time
The mountain called Monkey had spoken
There was only fire, and then nothing
Oh, little town in the USA
Your time has come to see
There's nothing you believe you want
But where were you when it
All came down on me? Did you call me? No
Foot of a great mountain
There was a town where the
People known as Happyfolk lived
Their very existence a mystery to
The rest of the world
Obscured as it was by great clouds
Here, they played out their peaceful lives
Innocent of the litany of excess and violence
That was growing in the world below
To live in harmony with the spirit of
The mountain called Monkey was enough
Then one day, Strangefolk arrived in the town
They came in camouflage
Hidden behind dark glasses
But no one noticed them
They only saw shadows
You see, without the Truth of the Eyes
The Happyfolk were blind
Falling out of aeroplanes and
Hiding out in holes
Waiting for the sunset to come
People going home
Jump back from behind them and
Shoot them in the head
Now everybody dancing, the dance of the dead
The dance of the dead, the dance of the dead
In time
The Strangefolk found their way into the
Higher reaches of the mountain
And it was there that they found the
Caves of unimaginable sincerity and beauty
By chance
They stumbled upon the place where all
Good souls come to rest the Strangefolk
They coveted the jewels in these
Caves above all things
And soon they began to mine the mountain
Its rich seam
Fueling the chaos of their own world
Meanwhile, down in the town
The Happyfolk slept restlessly
Their dreams invaded by shadowy figures
Digging away at their souls every day
People would wake and stare at the mountain
Why was it bringing darkness
Into their lives?
And as the Strangefolk mined deeper
And deeper into the mountain
Holes began to appear
Bringing with them a cold
And bitter wind that
Chilled the very soul of the Monkey
For the first time
The Happyfolk felt fearful
For they knew that soon the Monkey
Would stir from it's deep sleep
And then came a sound, distant at first
It grew into castrophany
So immense that it could be
Heard far away in space
There were no screams, there was no time
The mountain called Monkey had spoken
There was only fire, and then nothing
Oh, little town in the USA
Your time has come to see
There's nothing you believe you want
But where were you when it
All came down on me? Did you call me? No