[Derameth]

Can I stay dry, and keep my calm?
Do I need help to get me along?
I will not depend on anyone but me,
Yet I need your strength to set me free.

Why does it haunt me, day and night
When there were times, I was alright.
Now the monkey does clap his bell
Yet I won't go back into that hell.

I wonder only why the thought does come
and settle its self on shoulders numb.
Forgotten for awhile, away in the back
Of my brain. He knows me..he's got the knack.

I want to be normal, to forget this tune
That the monkey does play from dusk till noon
But normal I am, in my own little way
The monkey is here, and here to stay.

Yet I'll not feed him, nor let him creep
into my soul. Not awaken or even alseep
Will I succumb to his jaunty call
I have already climbed that drunken wall.

So why he returns, its no ones guess
I liked him much, to this I'll confess.
He was so much fun, a barrel or two
But in time this monkey grew and grew

until

A gorilla he became and hunched my back
bent me in two, without an attack
Just letting me drink in his sweet song
Breaking me down, not after so long.

So go little monkey, get outta my head
Get off to sleep, and dream in your bed
Of staying a monkey with whom I'll not play
We had some fun, but that was another day.