[Intro: twangy surf guitar, drums] Same cells! New shapes! [Verse 1] Take some skin cells from a frog embryo, set them free in a dish and let them go. They don't build skin on a frog anymore, they grow tiny hairs and they swim across the floor. [Chorus] Same cells, new shapes, same genes, no edits, no tapes, where does the form come from? Nobody can say for sure, same cells, new shapes, and the lab wants to know more. [Verse 2] Xenobots! They sweep up loose cells in a pile, they heal a little cut, they swim for a while. That's what they do, it's a short list, it's true, but nobody wrote that list, so where'd it come from? Who? [Chorus] Same cells, new shapes, same genes, no edits, no tapes, where does the form come from? Nobody can say for sure, same cells, new shapes, and the lab wants to know more. [Verse 3] Then Gizem took cells from a human airway, grown in a gel, they rolled out to play. Anthrobots! On a scratch in a dish of nerve cells, the neurons grew across the gap, and that's what the paper tells. [Bridge: drums only, then guitar] A genome is a parts list, it's not a picture of the whole, the cells can build a frog, or a little swimming ball. The same hardware can make a different thing, and that's the question Levin wants to bring. [Final Chorus: double guitars] Same cells, new shapes, same genes, no edits, no tapes, where does the form come from? Nobody can say for sure, same cells, new shapes, and the lab wants to know more! [Outro] Same cells! New shapes!
