{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, 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, written in the choice How you gonna solve it? How you gonna score? Hey, MateraLab! … You gotta Know the Lore [Chorus] Everybody's got a question Everyone’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, way up high RNA is still the messenger, but the language has changed Now it's the chromatin talkin' — time to rearrange [Verse 4] Take the histones by the hundred, 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] You see, I've got something to tell you, I've 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] Everybody's got a question Everyone’s chasin' somethin' true Every question leads to another one Every answer starts something new [Instrumental Bridge/Solo] [Pre-Chorus 2] 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] Everybody's got a question Everyone’s chasin' somethin' true Every question leads to another one Every answer starts something new [Outro] Been at it half a lifetime, and it circles back around But I'd do it all over — 'cause I just love the sound So let’s play it again, and feel the beat Cuz Every song worth singin' gets put on repeat I said, Every song worth singin' gets put on repeat
