A long time ago, our point of view    Was broadcast by Mr. Bartholomew    And now the world is full of sorrow and pain    And it's time for us to speak up again       You're slack and sorry    Such an arrogant brood    The only purpose you serve is to bring us our food    We sit here staring at your pomp and pout    Outside the bars we use for keeping you out       You've taken everything that you wanted    Broke it up and plundered it and hunted    Ever since we said it    You went and took the credit    It's been headed this way since the world began    When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man       Monkey to Man       Every time man struggles and fails    He makes up some kind of fairytales    After all of the misery that he has caused    He denies he's descended from the dinosaurs       Points up to heaven with cathedral spires    All the time indulging in his base desires    Ever since we said it    He went and took the credit    It's been headed this way since the world began    When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man       Monkey to Man       (yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah)       Big and useless as he has become    With his crying statues and his flying bomb    Goes 'round acting like the chosen one    Excuse us if we treat him like our idiot cousin       Hangs up flowers and bells and rhymes    Hoping to hell someone's forgiven his crimes    Fills up the air with his pride and praise    He's a big disgrace to our beastly ways       In the fashionable nightclubs and finer precincts    Man uses words to dress up his vile instincts    Ever since we said it    He went and took the credit    It's been headed this way since the world began    When a vicious creature took the jump from Monkey to Man