Well, I got the invitation 嗯，我得到了邀请

That you sent to everyone 那你给大家

And I told you family picnics weren't exactly my idea of fun 我告诉过你的家庭野餐并不完全是我的乐趣所在

You replied that everyone but me said they were going to come 你回答说，每个人，但我说，他们要来

Which is how you talked me into going to the reunion 这是你如何说服我去团聚

   

When you said everyone, you really meant it 当你说每个人，你真的是认真的

   

My brother the ape 我哥哥猿

My brother the ape 我哥哥猿

   

I received the photos you sent 我收到你发来的照片

And I don't regret that I went 我不后悔，我去了

Or the sight of everybody stiffly posing under one tent 或者大家的视线下了帐棚生硬冒充

But I don't feel I belong and I keep wanting to escape 但我不觉得我是属于和我一直想逃跑

And I fail to see the likeness between me and my brother the ape 我看不出我和我的兄弟猿之间的相似性

   

They all kept saying (they all kept saying) 他们都不停地说（他们都不停地说）

How much we look alike (how much we look alike) 多少我们长得很像（我们有多少看起来很像）

I don't think that we look alike at all (I don't think that we look alike at all) 我不认为我们看起来很像在所有（我不认为我们长得很像的话）

   

But I'll admit that I look more like a chimp 不过，我得承认，我看起来更像黑猩猩

Than I look like my cousin the shrimp 比我长得像我的表弟虾

Or my distant kin the lichens 还是我的远亲的地衣

Or the snowy egret or the moss 或白鹭鸶或苔

And I find it hard to recognize 我觉得很难识别

Some relatives of ours 我们的一些亲戚

Like the rotifer, the sycamore 如轮虫，无花果

Iguanas and sea stars 鬣蜥和海星

   

My brother the ape 我哥哥猿

My brother the ape 我哥哥猿

   

They say you don't get (they say you don't get) 他们说，你没有得到（他们说你不要）

To choose your family (to choose your family) 选择您的家人（选择您的家人）

But there's no other one to choose (but there's no other one to choose) 但有没有另一种选择（但有没有另一种选择）

   

So that's why I'm writing this now 所以这就是为什么我现在写这

And you can tell my sister the cow 你可以告诉我妹妹牛

That I meant to thank her for the gorgonzola 那我的意思是感谢她的戈贡佐拉

And I'll allow that I've been acting like a stranger 我会允许我一直像个陌生人

But you guys are all so strange 但是你们都这么怪

Though I think of what I'm like 虽然我觉得我很喜欢

And I can see we're all the same 我可以看到，我们都是一样的

   

So this time next year, we'll meet at my place 所以，明年的这个时候，我们会在我家见面

   

My brother the ape 我哥哥猿

My brother the ape 我哥哥猿