My Brother The Ape Lyrics - Here Comes Science (amazon.com Exclusive) [cd/dvd] - They Might Be Giants

Well, I got the invitation 

That you sent to everyone 

And I told you family picnics weren't exactly my idea of fun 

You replied that everyone but me said they were going to come 

Which is how you talked me into going to the reunion 

When you said everyone, you really meant it 

My brother the ape 

My brother the ape 

I received the photos you sent 

And I don't regret that I went 

Or the sight of everybody stiffly posing under one tent 

But I don't feel I belong and I keep wanting to escape 

And I fail to see the likeness between me and my brother the ape 

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They all kept saying (they all kept saying) 

How much we look alike (how much we look alike) 

I don't think that we look alike at all (I don't think that we look alike at all) 

But I'll admit that I look more like a chimp 

Than I look like my cousin the shrimp 

Or my distant kin the lichens 

Or the snowy egret or the moss 

And I find it hard to recognize 

Some relatives of ours 

Like the rotifer, the sycamore 

Iguanas and sea stars 

My brother the ape 

My brother the ape 

They say you don't get (they say you don't get) 

To choose your family (to choose your family) 

But there's no other one to choose (but there's no other one to choose) 

Photos 

So that's why I'm writing this now 

And you can tell my sister the cow 

That I meant to thank her for the gorgonzola 

And I'll allow that I've been acting like a stranger 

But you guys are all so strange 

Though I think of what I'm like 

And I can see we're all the same 

So this time next year, we'll meet at my place 

My brother the ape 

My brother the ape