Angel in the Jungle - Seeming

Nothing went wrong today, did it?

So I’m talking straight with you

Tell me what you gonna do

Now that your sky is blue?

Yes, show up, yes, get paid

Well not so bad, it’s true

And maybe there’s other points of view

But they’re not getting through

We never knew what it was we were missing

'Cause we never knew anything was missing at all

Start out small

Kid learns to crawl

Eye on the ball

Strengthen the wall

We sat in the class and learned how to learn

While we were thinking there was nothing more to thinking at all

Standing tall

Conference call

Shopping mall

Urban sprawl

Is this how creation crumbles?

Is it nothing but a tunnel?

Where’s the angel in the jungle?

Is there hope within all hunger?

Must the rain fall down from somewhere?

The angel in the jungle

What’s that headache?

What’s that pressure

Just behind your brow

Growing full and fresh and loud

Sprouting vines into the shroud?

Will today become the day it left you

Cast off on the ground

Staring straight up to the cloud

Where it twists in green and brown?

I never knew what it was sprouting inside

'Cause I never knew anything was growing at all

And nothing’s on

Play along

Come join the throng

But something’s wrong

And the only picture left in my memory is

Oil palm trees when I fall to my knees and dissolve

Everything’s gone

Sing to the dawn

Trumpeter swan

Change the song

Is this how creation crumbles?

Is it nothing but a tunnel?

Where’s the angel in the jungle?

Is there hope within all hunger?

Must the rain fall down from somewhere?

The angel in the jungle

The cradle in the rubble

The stranger in the family portrait

The mirror that burns before you

A voice that cuts through cities

With joyful rising rivers

Her wings unshed though autumn

In bloody disproportion

And I’m standing wracked and ready

And I’m begging please forget me

Black dogs at the edge of vision

Red crows and howling griffins

And I forget what I was

Forget what I was

Forget what I was singing

Is this how creation crumbles?

Is it nothing but a tunnel?

Where’s the angel in the jungle?

Is there hope within all hunger?

Must the rain fall down from somewhere?

The angel in the jungle

Is this how creation crumbles?

Is it nothing but a tunnel?

Where’s the angel in the jungle?

Is there hope within all hunger?

Must the rain fall down from somewhere?

The angel in the jungle

The angel in the jungle