The Cambrian Explosion

Lyrics for The Cambrian Explosion

Toxic horizons Pestilent holes Mountains rain from the sky Earth starts to freeze Equator to poles Nothing to do here but die Bacteria Choking themselves to extinction Decaying to sulfurous slime Purple the seas Stagnant they lie Reduced to hell without time Until from the poisonous ooze Two chemical archangels climb The Gemini Of collagen and oxygen Microbes cluster together Echo themselves toward the sun Quietly emerge from the nether Zombified eons expire Ancient mycelium stirs Awakens a stygian choir Pulsating stenches Soar from the trenches Congregate, never to sever Membranes unite Excrete and divide Transforming the planet forever Third time's the charm Breathe And a paradigm plunges Brought to its knees By molds, fungi and sponges Microbes cluster together Echo themselves toward the sun Quietly emerge from the nether Zombified eons expire Ancient mycelium stirs Awakens a stygian choir And then something else Propels the cells Away from death's erosion Conjugates Accelerates The Cambrian Explosion Shocked from slumber Sways and lumbers A reborn evolution The wheel of hungers Looms humongous An unborn revolution And one more time In the slime Cell walls groove Things start to move Red algae first Then some worms In the muck Things start to fuck One more tooth Mouths that thirst Drawn by light Things start to bite One more limb One more eye Claws that pry Things start to die One more spine Things start to run The ocean bursts The hunt is on An eon awakes Fueled by a trillion demises Ruin awaits Looms in a million disguises Predators start to crave more Multiply as if possessed To mutate to more lustrous shores Magnified monsters aspire Newborn spectacles stun Exultant on wings of immortal desire