Discovered by some scientists living on an island near Peru
Experiments with monkeys, they taught one monk to wash his food
Some others imitated, they picked right up on what to do
‘Til 98 was greeted, by one who’ll finally change the rules
Caught herself washing apples
Unaware of her own designs
Soon hundreds emulate it
Make way for monkey 99
The rest need not see to fall in line
Is there some sense of the divine?
All hail this monkey 99
A man sits out one sunny day beside a Mexican café
Observes the teeming masses, exquisite dances happen
He leans back with his eyes closed, into an angle of repose,
And through the seams he sees how these cars and roads and empires came to be
When I’m stuck inside this
Grand network of our lifetimes
Til others like him follow
We wait for subject 99
Just like the prophets of our time
Is there some sense of the divine?
We wait for subject 99
I will walk, I will think, I will wake the other nine-tenths
Of my brain from below, I will catch the falling snow
On my tongue I will taste the sour and the bitter
And when the sweet morning comes, I will learn, I will love
We wait for subject 99
Just like the prophets of our time
Is there some sense of the divine?
We wait for subject 99
credits
from Rock and/or Roll,
released April 1, 2005
Gavin Elder: most everything but the drums
Ken Coomer: drums
Charlie Brocco: engineering
Sonic Fedora: horns
Jim Hoke: Clarinet
Elvin Jones: dog bowl
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