[Intro] [syncopated clean electric guitar with wah-wah, tight drums, melodic bass] [brass stabs] [Verse 1] [male vocals] 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 is part of the same mystery [Verse 2] Well, we started out in Cleveland watching 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 Everybody's chasing something true Every question leads to another one Every answer starts something new [Verse 3] [brass section enters with rhythmic hits] So we packed it up for Chapel Hill, chasin' a bigger why Left the traffic behind us set our sights up, way up, high RNA is still the messenger but the language has changed Now it's the chromatin talking -- time to rearrange [Verse 4] Take the histones by the hundred pull them 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] But I've got something to tell you. I've got something to say Don't throw it all out just because the water got a little gray You gotta break it you gotta build it you gotta prove it to the core Hey, MateraLab! You gotta know the Lore [Chorus] Everybody's got a question Everybody's chasing something true Every question leads to another one Every answer starts something new [Bridge] [guitar solo with heavy wah-wah and distortion] [organ/sax swells] [Outro] We've been chasing it for years and now it comes back complete It's the same old song with the same old beat And everything worth knowing comes in repeats I said, everything worth knowing comes in repeats [Fade] [brass hits, fading groove] [final riff]
