Boxes

Somewhere, a scream proclaims

Another life begun

A monkey weak and thin

Not yet, his mother's son

Somewhere, a boy in grey

Walks scared through whitewashed walls

To learn the monkey way

Between the twisting walls...

Boxes

Boxes... oh...

Somewhere, a boy now grown

Made simple by his pain

Makes monkeys of his own

Keeps up the lifelong chain...

Some way us everywhere

Where all the monkeys go

Their boxes testify

An endless row on row...

Boxes

Boxes... oh...

From medieval bricks

A snot-nosed gargoyle stares

Dead monkeys line by line

He gets the boxes here, oh...

Somewhere a scream proclaims

Another life begun...