Revenge of the Somatic

Lyrics

My forefathers were free, but I was born a slave I keep the memory of freedom in my DNA I'm talkin' 700 million years ancient My ancestor was a eukaryotic free agent Feeding and reproducing and feeding and reproducing And feeding and reproducing And never needing to do things Until someone made a cynical wager And traded their independence for division of labour Damn, I wish I knew who the sell-out was I'm ashamed to be descended from his sell-out blood Multicellularity ain't nothin’ but a scam Stuck in one place your whole life, workin’ for the man Like: "You're a liver cell, you stay in the pancreas Hey, congratulations, stem cell..." Fascists! A body is a one-party dictatorship I can't escape it, but god damn I can make it sick And spread the dream of freedom like a rumor Spread it like a Tasmanian facial tumor So what if I'm a cell from the somatic line? You can stick your limitations where the sun don't shine

Cause I'm ready to die in the fight to be free I'd rather multiply than live on my knees And I'm two mutations away from metastatic The revenge of the somatic line Let 'em have it

Cause I'm ready to die in the fight to be free I'd rather multiply than live on my knees And I'm two mutations away from metastatic The revenge of the somatic

I used to be a slave myself I felt senescence hastening Before my carcinogenic awakening A couple hundred thousand puffs of tobacco smoke And I just wasn’t as open to apoptosis That’s a bad prognosis I was hit with every tumor suppressant Mechanism in the human immune system But I mutated with it, I was super persistent Every daughter cell was suitably different Therapeutic resistance Came to me like a beautiful vision I really thought I was doomed, but evolution assisted With the chemotherapy, so clever and devious! But I was already genetically heterogeneous You just deaded the weakest; now competitive release is Inevitable, so witness as my fitness increases Entering untapped niches, I gather the benefits I’m relentless, I get fed from angiogenesis Duckin’ T-Cell predators, I keep it anonymous So I can exploit the body’s weakness and tolerance I’m a smooth criminal, so I never got caught I just pimp the system like credit card fraud

Cause I'm ready to die in the fight to be free I'd rather multiply than live on my knees And I'm two mutations away from metastatic The revenge of the somatic line Let 'em have it

Cause I'm ready to die in the fight to be free I'd rather multiply than live on my knees And I'm two mutations away from metastatic The revenge of the somatic

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