Lyrics:

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

They all kept saying
How much we look alike
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
To choose your family
But there's no other one to choose

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