Know the Lore
[Intro] [distorted electric guitar riff, driving drums, bass enters] You gotta know the lore... [Verse 1] Those little fruit flies in a bottle on the shelf? They ain't as far from us as you'd like to tell yourself It's the same old Code, older than our history Every living thing, its part of the same mystery [Verse 2] Well, we started out in Cleveland, watchin' RNPs grow Cajal bodies kept them assembled, but we just had to know How it all gets spliced together, cuttin' out what don't belong Every Intron with its purpose, every Exon with its song [Pre-Chorus 1] You see, histones have a language, and chromatin is the voice There's a riddle in our Genomes, that’s written in the choice So, how you gonna solve it? How you gonna score? Hey, Matera Lab! … You gotta Know the Lore [Chorus] Everybody's got a question Everybody’s chasin' somethin' true Every question leads to another one Every answer … starts something new [Verse 3] Well, we packed-it-up for Chapel Hill, chasin' a bigger why Left the trafficking behind us, set our sights up high RNA is still the messenger, but the language has changed Now it's the chromatin talkin' — time to rearrange [Bridge] [drum fill, heavy guitar chords] [Verse 4] Take the histones by the hundred, and pull 'em clean off the line Write your own from top to bottom, every letter by design Change a single mark and measure it — does it survive or does it fall? That's how you learn the grammar, that's how you read it all [Pre-Chorus 2] [full band, high energy] You see I've got something to tell you, I got something to say Don't throw it all out just 'cause the water got a little gray You gotta break it, you gotta build it, you gotta prove it to the core Hey, Matera Lab! … You gotta Know the Lore [Chorus] [vocal harmonies] Everybody's got a question Everybody's chasing something true Every question leads to another one Every answer starts something new [Outro] [guitar feedback] We been chasing it for years Now it comes back complete It's the same old song, the same old beat Everything worth knowing comes in repeats I said everything worth knowing comes in repeats [final drum hit]
