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My Brother the Ape
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They Might Be Giants
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Well, I got the invitation that you sent to everyone
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And I told you family picnics weren't exactly my idea of fun
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You replied that everyone but me said they were going to come
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Which is how you talked me into going to the reunion
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When you said everyone you really meant it
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My brother, the ape
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My brother, the ape
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I received the photos you sent and I don't regret that I went
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Or the sight of everybody stiffly posing under one tent
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But I don't feel I belong and I keep wanting to escape
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And I fail to see the likeness between me and my brother the ape
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They all kept saying how much we look alike
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I don't think that we look alike at all
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But I'll admit that I look more like a chimp
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Than I look like my cousin the shrimp
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Or my distant kin the lichens or the snowy egret or the moss
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And I find it hard to recognize some relatives of ours
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Like the rotifer, the sycamore, iguanas and sea stars
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My brother, the ape
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My brother, the ape
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They say you don't get to choose your family
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But there's no other one to choose
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So that's why I'm writing this now
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And you can tell my sister the cow
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That I meant to thank her for the Gorgonzola
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And I'll allow that I've been acting like a stranger
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But you guys are all so strange
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Though I think of what I'm like
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And I can see we're all the same
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So this time next year we'll meet at my place
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My brother, the ape
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My brother, the ape
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