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Parasite Wars
Parasite wars, viruses, spores Protozoa, bacteria, microbes galore They evolve faster But we can flip their strategy backwards Before they turn us into eyesores
Parasite wars are ancient, we've been entangled With 'em since before we had a brain on the tip of our brainstem Trapped in an arms race with 'em, runnin' to keep Pace with 'em, Red Queen, stuck in one place with the Microbes, if you're thinkin' they're quite gross Disgust is beneficial for a parasite's host Every host-parasite interaction is a mystery Until you consider its evolutionary history That's the enigma code, Alan Turing Gotta stay out of the water when a guinea worm is burrowing That burning acid is just to get you to splash in The river so the bastard's eggs are broadcasted Ask Jimmy Carter, it isn't hard to take hold of The situation by interrupting host manipulation Don't scratch it! Damn, that feeling of itchiness Was just to get you to attach eggs to your fingertips Parasites have evolved to manipulate Our behaviour so that their genes proliferate What you think a sneeze is for, clearing your nostrils? Nah, that's a virus takin' over the launch codes
Parasite wars, fighting for lives never high scores Escalate the arms race with the strike force The harder we hit them The more they fight back with resistance Tryin' to find the right course Parasite wars, viruses, spores Protozoa, bacteria, microbes galore They evolve faster But we can flip their strategy backwards Before they turn us into eyesores
Parasite wars, whoa, they're clever as hell How'd they get to know us better than we know ourselves? How does rabies virus know to go for the saliva glands And attack the brain and make a mammal crazy fighting mad Foaming at the mouth, ready to bite and pass On a mouthful of crazy little baby rabies viruses Damn, that's a clever little parasite Plasmodia live in mosquitos in the air in flight But they're patient, they never attack a carrier Benign in mosquitos but in people they're malaria? Leavin' you weaker and weaker, weeks and weeks of fever 'Til you're nothin' but a sack of hot meat, a mosquito feeder Ahhh, there's a method to the madness Effects are selected when benefits are adaptive For the pathogens, that's why some are deadly serious 更多更详尽歌词 在 ※ Mojim.com 魔镜歌词网 And others are mild: it's the evolution of virulence Cholera can spread through vectors like the water systems We can pass it on even from incapacitated victims But STDs are different, they only keep working If they leave you on your feet and flirting
Parasite wars, fighting for lives never high scores Escalate the arms race with the strike force The harder we hit them The more they fight back with resistance Tryin' to find the right course Parasite wars, viruses, spores Protozoa, bacteria, microbes galore They evolve faster But we can flip their strategy backwards Before they turn us into eyesores
Parasite wars! We got the pattern figured out Some can only spread if they keep you walkin' around Others spread better if you're stuck in bed in agony And they don't give a plasmid about you and your family So all we gotta do is interrupt the vectors And lower virulence is artificially selected That's one way to leave disease decimated If you can't beat it, you can try to domesticate it We've already domesticated a few There's a hundred trillion microbes inside of you They're commensals, but they can make you crave food Hijack your vagus nerve and affect your mood But microbiota isn't even as deep as it gets Your DNA is chock full of endogenous retroviruses Your ancestor got an STD It got trapped in your genome next to the rest of your genes And adapted to help your placenta get implanted So next time you catch a virus maybe you should thank it Ha! Watch out for the vectors The double agents and defectors
In the parasite wars, fighting for lives never high scores Escalate the arms race with the strike force The harder we hit them The more they fight back with resistance Tryin' to find the right course Parasite wars, viruses, spores Protozoa, bacteria, microbes galore They evolve faster But we can flip their strategy backwards Before they turn us into eyesores
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