[ti:Monkey To Man] [ar:Elvis Costello] [al:The Delivery Man] [by:] [offset:0] [00:09.70]A long time ago our point of view [00:16.71]Was broadcast by Mr Bartholomew [00:23.29]Now the world is full of sorrow and pain [00:30.49]It's time for us to speak up again [00:37.67]You're slack and sorry [00:39.56]Such an arrogant brood [00:44.71]The only purpose you serve is to bring us our food [00:52.38]We sit here staring at your pomp and pout [00:56.00]Outside the bars we use for keeping you out [00:59.52]You've taken everything that you wanted [01:03.21]Broke it up and plundered it and hunted [01:06.71]Ever since we said it [01:08.47]You went and took the credit [01:10.36]It's been headed this way since the world began [01:13.55]When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man [01:32.35]Every time that man struggles and fails [01:39.30]He makes up some kind of fairytales [01:46.18]After all of the misery that he has caused [01:49.82]He denies he's descended from the dinosaurs [01:53.57]Points up to heaven with cathedral spires [01:57.21]All the time indulging in his base desires [02:00.87]Ever since we said it [02:02.76]He went and took the credit [02:04.15]It's been headed this way since the world began [02:07.76]When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man [02:30.32]Big and useless as he has become [02:33.29]With his crying statues and his flying bomb [02:37.03]Goes 'round acting like the chosen one [02:40.75]Excuse us if we treat him like our idiot cousin [02:44.53]He hangs up flowers and bells and rhymes [02:51.68]Hoping to hell that someone's forgiven his crimes [02:58.93]Fills the air with his pride and his praise [03:02.06]He's big disgrace to our beastly ways [03:05.67]In the fashionable nightclubs and finer precincts [03:09.56]Man uses words to dress up his vile instincts [03:13.31]Ever since we said it [03:15.00]He went and took the credit [03:16.83]It's been headed this way since the world began [03:20.03]When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man