Tardigrades
Survival Chronicles: Tardigrades' Resilience Unveiled
Lyrics
Slow stepping out of the mud volcano
Emerging slowly from a mud volcano
You can't stop me, I'm undegradable
Asserting resilience, implying indestructibility
Starvation is like a game to me
Experiencing starvation as a challenging game
Radiation is just afraid of me
Radiation is portrayed as fearing the subject
Slow steppers or little water bears
Referring to slow-moving creatures or water bears
Oviparous throughout the Phanerozoic Eon
Reproduction throughout a geologic eon
Three segments soak on a piece of moss
Describing segments on a piece of moss
You can't kill me, keep trying day, by day, by day
Emphasizing resistance to repeated attempts to kill
They're after daylight
Being pursued or targeted during daylight
You keep on living in the Phanerozoic Eon
Continuing to live through a geologic eon
Off to daylight
Moving towards daylight or exposure
All the people in my head
Reference to the thoughts or personalities in the singer's mind
And all the faces that I've met
Recalling various faces encountered
I want to love and not forget
Expressing a desire for love and lasting memories
They always seem to go away
Noting the tendency of things to fade or disappear
All the pieces of my head
Referring to the components of the singer's mind
And all bad dreams I can't forget
Mentioning persistent and troubling dreams
Are all the memories that last
Highlighting the enduring nature of certain memories
These fuckers live like tardigrades
Comparing individuals to resilient tardigrades
Tardigrada survives, it's out of this world
Stating the survival of tardigrades is extraordinary
Skinny dipping in pools of boiling alcohol
Engaging in risky behavior with alcohol metaphor
I freeze, you pour the ice into a cup
Freezing in response to a situation
Lose water, take in your legs and curl up
Adapting to adverse conditions by curling up
Oh how did we survive, we ain't alright
Reflecting on survival despite challenges
Keep flowing upstream and swim in shoshonite
Continuing to face difficulties and move forward
Mooncrashed by Israeli satellite
Referencing an event involving an Israeli satellite
Colonize the looming lunar dark side
Discussing the potential colonization of the lunar dark side
Off to daylight
Moving toward exposure or daylight
You keep pretending it's the Phanerozoic Eon
Persisting through a geologic eon, possibly pretending
After daylight
Proceeding after exposure or daylight
Careless without danger must have been so cruel for you
Reflecting on a past state of carelessness and danger
Maybe the Phanerozoic Eon's over, I don't know
Speculating about the end of a geologic eon
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