The Monkey(The Clarksdale Sessions)-Elvis Costello/The Imposters

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:时间戳工具] [offset:0] [00:07.19]A long time ago our point of view [00:08.68] [00:09.56]Was broadcast by mr bartholomew [00:11.89] [00:13.30]And now the world is full of sorrow and pain [00:16.07] [00:17.06]And it's time for us to speak up again [00:19.83] [00:20.44]You're slack and sorry [00:21.57]Such an arrogant brood [00:23.77] [00:24.48]The only purpose you serve is to bring us our food [00:27.38] [00:28.90]We sit here staring at your pomp and pout [00:31.94] [00:32.82]Outside the bars we use for keeping you out [00:35.46]You've taken everything that you wanted [00:38.09] [00:40.80]Broke it up and plundered it and hunted [00:43.27] [00:44.76]Ever since we said it [00:45.89]You went and took the credit [00:49.44] [00:50.59]It's been headed this way since the world began [00:53.42] [00:56.82]When a vicious creature took the jump from monkey to man [00:59.49] [01:00.32]Monkey to man [01:01.19]Every time man struggles and fails [01:03.04] [01:04.44]He makes up some kind of fairytales [01:06.28]After all of the misery that he has caused [01:08.25]He denies he's descended from the dinosaurs [01:10.66]Points up to heaven with cathedral spires [01:13.16] [01:13.77]All the time indulging in his base desires [01:16.14] [01:20.29]Ever since we said it [01:22.64] [01:23.53]He went and took the credit [01:27.10] [01:28.26]It's been headed this way since the world began [01:32.44]When a vicious creature took the jump from monkey to man [01:35.15] [01:35.80]Monkey to man [01:36.59]Big and useless as he has become [01:38.77] [01:39.35]With his crying statues and his flying bomb [01:43.01] [01:43.90]Goes 'round acting like the chosen one [01:45.27] [01:46.46]Excuse us if we treat him like our idiot cousin [01:49.26] [01:52.10]He hangs up flowers and bells and rhymes [01:54.65] [01:56.05]Hoping to hell someone's forgiven his crimes [01:59.10] [01:59.91]Fills up the air with his pride and praise [02:02.52] [02:03.84]He's a big disgrace to our beastly ways [02:05.85] [02:07.42]In the fashionable nightclubs and finer precincts [02:10.31]Man uses words to dress up his vile instincts [02:13.65]Ever since we said it [02:15.36]He went and took the credit [02:17.34]It's been headed this way since the world began [02:21.03] [02:27.82]When a vicious creature took the jump from monkey to man