A long time ago, our point of view
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Was broadcast by Mr. Bartholomew
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And now the world is full of sorrow and pain
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And it's time for us to speak up again
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You're slack and sorry
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Such an arrogant brood
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The only purpose you serve is to bring us our food
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We sit here staring at your pomp and pout
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Outside the bars we use for keeping you out
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You've taken everything that you wanted
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Broke it up and plundered it and hunted
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Ever since we said it
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You went and took the credit
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It's been headed this way since the world began
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When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man
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Monkey to Man
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Every time man struggles and fails
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He makes up some kind of fairytales
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After all of the misery that he has caused
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He denies he's descended from the dinosaurs
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Points up to heaven with cathedral spires
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All the time indulging in his base desires
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Ever since we said it
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He went and took the credit
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It's been headed this way since the world began
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When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man
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Monkey to Man
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Big and useless as he has become
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With his crying statues and his flying bomb
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Goes 'round acting like the chosen one
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Excuse us if we treat him like our idiot cousin
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He hangs up flowers and bells and rhymes
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Hoping to hell someone's forgiven his crimes
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Fills up the air with his pride and praise
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He's a big disgrace to our beastly ways
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In the fashionable nightclubs and finer precincts
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Man uses words to dress up his vile instincts
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Ever since we said it
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He went and took the credit
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It's been headed this way since the world began
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When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man
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Monkey To Man
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Elvis Costello |