Hello all,
This is a comic track in the vein of Flanders and Swann. I'm not much of one for recording at the best of times, and I have access to absolutely zero equipment here in the Japanese countryside. So as is, I'm afraid!
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Thoughts, comments, criticisms much appreciated.
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A pretty protozoa drifts along the ocean floor
But the dark primeval soup lacks something - more than salt - she's longing for
When a voice calls out imploring her to come towards the shore
To which she says - well sure
And when she comes up to the coast she finds a most surprising thing
There's a creature up upon the land
And when he sees her he begins to sing
I've had a crisis of faith about the sea from which I came
And I long for something more I long for things that I am yet to name
I'm a creature blessed with vision, though I've not been blessed with eyes
But I've imagined someone blessing me, so now I'm here of my own intelligent design
I know that many argue that we're better off below
And we don't even need each other - why not just split in two to grow?
But you can't self-replicate the dedication I will show
And things of worth require hardship, you cannot simply let yourself be carried by the water's gentle flow
We can live and grow together dear in perfect symbiosis
And have two charming offspring named meiosis and mitosis
We'll beget a whole new phylum seek asylum on the shore
And as long as you are with me then my heart, when I evolve to have a heart, will be yours
But as the years go by my love we surely both shall change
And we'll wax and wane apart as even genomes rearrange
But though I'm an invertebrate I've backbone left to spare
And though these risks may make us vulnerable in time that will simply another little thing that we can share
And even if we ultimately evolved into evangelists
And denied today's accomplishment with a baffling intransigence
No matter how it ended we would know how it began
With what one day will be my hand clasped in what will also one day come to be your hand
