LYRICS
Up in smoke
Ain’t no joke
Did you see the calamity
Of the puzzle monkey tree?
Oh, you know what’s puzzling me
Unseen inevitability
Up in smoke
Ain’t no joke
The way we spew our debris
Like we’re the champs of society
Coming back a little too fast
Gonna kick me in the ass
Up in smoke
Ain’t no joke
In the midst of demon fits
Gonna smash it all to bits
Kiss of death on our lips
Human induced apocalypse
Up in smoke
Ain’t no joke
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
B E Am
Am D7
A verse inspired by the wildfires in Chile burning in the forests of 1,000 old puzzle monkey trees. (At least the government of Chile recognizes it as the effects of human induced climate change.) Another verse is inspired by the ISIS destruction of ancient artifacts in Syria using sledgehammers and bulldozers. I guess you could say the song is about human induced destruction of everything.
Araucaria araucana — commonly called the monkey puzzle tree
The origin of the popular English language name ‘monkey puzzle’ derives from its early cultivation in Britain in about 1850, when the species was still very rare in gardens and not widely known. Sir William Molesworth, the proud owner of a young specimen at Pencarrow garden near Bodmin in Cornwall was showing it to a group of friends, one of them – the noted barrister and Benthamist Charles Austin remarked, “It would puzzle a monkey to climb that”. [Because it takes a 1,000 years for them to grow, young specimens are tiny.] As the species had no existing popular name, first ‘monkey puzzler’, then ‘monkey puzzle’ stuck. — Wikipedia
Daniel — Guitar, Vocals
From the album You Are Getting Warmer
by Daniel Brouse