Nur Ein XVII Round Two - Floating in the Water
Posted: Mon May 30, 2022 7:56 am
Liner
oh LUCA, look at how far we've swum
oh LUCA, look at all that we've done
oh LUCA, look at what we've become
what we've become
"safe in cytoplasm,
in some hydrothermal chasm
I await actualisation
as a trillion things,
four billion years away
I'm so excited to see what my children make
go forth and procreate!"
oh LUCA, did we do it right?
... feels like we fucked it up
my species of boiling frog
swims in water slowly killing us
apex discreditors,
scum rises to the top
floating in the stagnant water
soon enough, we'll all be sunk
oh LUCA, look at how far we've swum
oh LUCA, look at all that we've done
oh LUCA, look at what we've become
what we've become
"safe in cytoplasm,
in some hydrothermal chasm
I await actualisation
as a trillion things,
four billion years away
I'm so excited to see what my children make
go forth and procreate!"
oh LUCA, did we do it right?
... feels like we fucked it up
Spoiler
I'm off to Barcelona tomorrow for a week so I woke up this morning knowing I'd have to get a song out in a day. Luckily inspiration came pretty quickly for this challenge. My two narratives are 4 billion years apart. The chorus (in italics) is from the perspective of LUCA, aka the last universal common ancestor, the most recent common ancestor of all current life on Earth. I've personified this bacterial lifeform and given it a sense of hope and expectation for the future of life on earth. And then the other narrator is a modern day human lamenting just how badly we've fucked everything up and let LUCA down.
As I say I was VERY time limited here and there are things about this I already want to change (I'm not sure the autotune on the chorus was a good idea but I wanted something to distinguish the two voices), but I'm not too upset with this for a quick write.
As I say I was VERY time limited here and there are things about this I already want to change (I'm not sure the autotune on the chorus was a good idea but I wanted something to distinguish the two voices), but I'm not too upset with this for a quick write.
oh LUCA, look at all that we've done
oh LUCA, look at what we've become
what we've become
"safe in cytoplasm,
in some hydrothermal chasm
I await actualisation
as a trillion things,
four billion years away
I'm so excited to see what my children make
go forth and procreate!"
oh LUCA, did we do it right?
... feels like we fucked it up
my species of boiling frog
swims in water slowly killing us
apex discreditors,
scum rises to the top
floating in the stagnant water
soon enough, we'll all be sunk
oh LUCA, look at how far we've swum
oh LUCA, look at all that we've done
oh LUCA, look at what we've become
what we've become
"safe in cytoplasm,
in some hydrothermal chasm
I await actualisation
as a trillion things,
four billion years away
I'm so excited to see what my children make
go forth and procreate!"
oh LUCA, did we do it right?
... feels like we fucked it up