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Wisdom of Monkeys

from The Apocalypse Lullaby EP by Far Flown Falcon

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Teach your children not to speak yet sing
Of all the myriad, useless things
Of heroes lost and love undone,
Of the generals, and the butchers, and the wars they’ve won
Teach them all to train their tongues
To form the doctrines on which their fates are hung

Oh for the wisdom of monkeys, march away blind, deaf and mute
Say farewell to the treetops, and scramble back down to the root
With paws go smother your senses and make your horizon the ground
Hide the spark of your cunning somewhere it can never be found
Oh for the wisdom, oh for the wisdom, oh for the wisdom of monkeys
Oh for the wisdom, oh for the wisdom, oh for the wisdom of monkeys

Teach your children not to hear, yet fear
Those frightening freedoms which appear
The dreams which take them far from home
From the mothers, and the fathers, and the wrongs they’ve done
Teach them all to wilfully unsee
That they were born into a cradle labelled hypocrisy

Oh for the wisdom of monkeys, march away blind, deaf and mute
Say farewell to the treetops, and scramble back down to the root
With paws go smother your senses and make your horizon the ground
Hide the spark of your cunning somewhere it can never be found
Oh for the wisdom, oh for the wisdom, oh for the wisdom of monkeys
Oh for the wisdom, oh for the wisdom, oh for the wisdom of monkeys

Blind, deaf and mute, march away
Blind, deaf and mute, march away

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from The Apocalypse Lullaby EP, released May 31, 2018

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Far Flown Falcon Cairo, Egypt

Far Flown Falcon is the musical identity of James Conder, a songwriter and fingerstyle guitarist.

For videos and reflections on the craft of songwriting, visit farflownfalcon.wordpress.com

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