[Intro: gospel organ, soft] [Verse 1] There was a cell inside a body, working with the rest, sharing signals with its neighbors, building what the body needs. Then it closed its little doors, it stopped hearing from the rest, and the body turned into its outside world. [Pre-Chorus] Michael Levin has an idea, that's all it is, and he says so, that a cell cut off from the network can forget the bigger goal. [Chorus] Come back to the body, come back to the plan, hear your neighbors' voltage, take the body's hand. Your self got small when you went it alone, come back to the body, come back home. [Verse 2] In tadpoles in his lab, Brook Chernet and Michael tried, they set the cells' voltage, from the outside. The cancer gene was still there, still switched on, but tumors were less likely when the voltage was right. [Chorus] Come back to the body, come back to the plan, hear your neighbors' voltage, take the body's hand. Your self got small when you went it alone, come back to the body, come back home. [Bridge: choir hums, voice alone] Now hear me, this is not a cure, cancer has a hundred causes, and doctors know much more. This is one experiment and one way to see, a question the lab is asking, carefully. [Final Chorus: full choir, key change] Come back to the body, come back to the plan, hear your neighbors' voltage, take the body's hand. Your self got small when you went it alone, come back to the body, come back home. Come back home. [Outro: organ]
