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 out from behind them

And shoot them in the head

Now everybody's 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 its deep sleep.

Then there came a sound

Distant first

It grew into castrophany

So immense 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, a little town in U.S.A

The time has come to see

There's nothing you believe you are

But where were you

When it all came down on me

Did you come in now?