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Alphabet Soup

from Annex '23 by Banned from Eden

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Live at the Annex, Bar Harbor, Maine, August 10, 2023

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Crack open a book and look at the lines of letters on the page,
If you can read, they might make you think, laugh, cry, or seethe with rage.
But if you’re illiterate they’re meaningless marks:
An obscure path on which you can’t embark,
A secret code that keeps you out of the loop—
Until you learn to read, it’s just alphabet soup.

Inside every cell there’s special molecule that we call DNA,
Made of nucleotide bases all linked together in a linear array
Of “letters” that constitute the “book” of life:
Instructions that render each of us rife
With potential to perpetuate the loop
Of life that emerged from the primordial soup.

In the Beginning, all was one: a singularity.
But it didn’t last because it couldn’t resist the pull of entropy.
So, the Universe exploded into Being with a Big Bang,
Bringing forth the physical forces that we know today:
Strong and weak nuclear, electromagnetic, and the pull of gravity.
Elementary particles emerged as the Universe began to cool,
And coalesced into matter that came together into clouds
That formed stars…
That birthed planets!
And that’s how Mother Earth came to be,
As a hot mess with no atmosphere or sea,
But as she cooled, she became the engine
Of an autocatalytic loop
That spawned our ancestral cells
That forged the first genetic code
From alphabet soup.

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from Annex '23, released February 1, 2024
Lyrics and music by Jim Coffman

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