Brazos - The Observer lyrics

Completely protected on all sides by volcanoes A woman, darkhaired, in stained jeans Sleeps in central Africa In her dreams, her notebooks, still Private as maiden diaries The mountain gorillas move through their life term; Their gentleness survives Observation. Six bands of them Inhabit, with her, the wooded highland When I lay me down to sleep Unsheltered by an natural guardians From the panicky life-cycle of my tribe I wake in the old cellblock Observing the daily executions Rehearsing the laws I cannot subscribe to Envying the pale gorilla-scented dawn She wakes into, the stream where she washes her hair The camera-flash of her quiet Eye