Monkey To Man-Elvis Costello

[ti:Monkey To Man] [ar:Elvis Costello] [al:The Delivery Man] [by:] [offset:0] [00:11.73]A long time ago our point of view [00:14.97] [00:18.66]Was broadcast by Mr Bartholomew [00:22.22] [00:25.27]Now the world is full of sorrow and pain [00:29.27] [00:32.40]It's time for us to speak up again [00:36.24] [00:39.61]You're slack and sorry [00:41.39]Such an arrogant brood [00:43.78] [00:46.60]The only purpose you serve is to bring us our food [00:51.19] [00:54.24]We sit here staring at your pomp and pout [00:57.88]Outside the bars we use for keeping you out [01:01.47]You've taken everything that you wanted [01:05.12]Broke it up and plundered it and hunted [01:08.65]Ever since we said it [01:10.40]You went and took the credit [01:12.43]It's been headed this way since the world began [01:15.53]When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man [01:20.47] [01:34.25]Every time that man struggles and fails [01:37.81] [01:40.94]He makes up some kind of fairytales [01:44.75] [01:48.23]After all of the misery that he has caused [01:51.78]He denies he's descended from the dinosaurs [01:55.55]Points up to heaven with cathedral spires [01:59.20]All the time indulging in his base desires [02:02.78]Ever since we said it [02:04.61]He went and took the credit [02:06.50]It's been headed this way since the world began [02:09.77]When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man [02:14.50] [02:32.22]Big and useless as he has become [02:35.32]With his crying statues and his flying bomb [02:38.96]Goes 'round acting like the chosen one [02:42.47]Excuse us if we treat him like our idiot cousin [02:46.86]He hangs up flowers and bells and rhymes [02:49.79] [02:53.60]Hoping to hell that someone's forgiven his crimes [02:57.06] [03:00.80]Fills the air with his pride and his praise [03:04.13]He's big disgrace to our beastly ways [03:07.58]In the fashionable nightclubs and finer precincts [03:11.54]Man uses words to dress up his vile instincts [03:15.20]Ever since we said it [03:16.89]He went and took the credit [03:18.72]It's been headed this way since the world began [03:22.03]When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man