Metamorphosis Lyrics: In The Beginning...

Allow me to...hit it again with the rhythm of clicks,
The first, the second, the fifth, to the infinite
BOOM! tick tick tick...
Let me revisit again, 'cuz in the beginning there was the Word,
And everything in it,
The image, the him, the her, the void, the formless perfect,
Word!

And in the beginning there was the "UGGH!"
The first Love to the second it stung,
The urge, the thirst,
The purest of hunches, the curious Love,
And surely enough, the potential was wild.
Like cracks in the egg shell.
When Woman and Man manifested a child,
The Trinity was built.
Humanity was a savannah plant in the window sill,
Gathering light to photosynthesize at will
In the African sunrise, right?

For in the beginning we lived in Eden,
Swinging from foliage leave,
With everything we'd ever need,
Like the fruits, the seeds, a safe place to sleep within arm's reach.
It was a party, no one was starving,
But like I said, the potential was wild,
For the conditions of this equilibrium changed our living to exile.
And a different time was told on the vertebraic sundial.
As climactic change erased our jungles...
Our way of living...
And our oasis reduced to puddles...

After a million years we were humbled.
Troubled.
The transition of living in Paradise to the desert was anything but subtle.
Imagine the human family, coming down from the trees for the first time,
Broad daylight,
Eyes unaccustomed to the shine,
Having to stand up to get a sight,

Scrounging for food to eat,
Measly plants in the desert cracks,
We were patriarchal primates without a plan
Just vulnerable nomads.

But like they say,
It's always the darkest before the sun's at hand,
For in this wretched state of climactic change,
The human experiment hatched.
(1:28)
So there we were...naked apes living in paradise, residing in what could be called the Garden of Eden...when all in an eon's moment, our jungle home became a grassland, and like refugees, we left in exile, thus beginning the human experiment...

The human experiment,
Mother nature's coin tossed on the gambling table,
Began like a bet in the cosmic casino,
And every bit as unstable.
It began in Africa, in the desert land,
With the human family scavenging,
Living hand to mouth
In a land of droughts,
Like naked apes living it out.

It began with a handful, of clever women and men,
Who instead of missing the garden,
Decided to go ahead,
Take a risk, and observe the environment glaring at them.

Some found herbs to eat,
Some hunted small animals,
While clever ones found an easy meal following the trail of roaming cattle.
They learned to flip over the cattle patties of manure dropped along,
And what they'd find was a fresh mushroom underneath,
Bon Appetite!
And since you are what you eat,
Those who ate certain things would have advantages you could see,
And those who had access to those advantages would be the ones who would simply out-breed.

So what advantages?
At a low dose,
Hand-eye skills enhance,
So you could see how a hunting animal throwing a spear would advance.

At a higher dose, each woman and man would have excited sexual glands,
So for those eating the mushroom, they'd certainly outbreed,
For the simple fact.

But at a higher dose, something different happened, to these primate nomads,
They found their inner world disassemble like the way the climate changed the land.
They began traveling the Mind,
Inventing languages
Painting cave walls
Rapidly evolving...boundaries dissolving...

It was the birth of religion,
Patriarchy had fallen,
Group unity exalted,
And with the mushroom's trance, orgies regularly resulted.
And for those involved it was a cleansing,
An innovation to the primate way,
As all the fathers cared for the children as one,
Matriarchy reigned.
But the creativity that made the Word become Flesh,
We went from naked apes to shamanic humans,
From one second to the next...
Creating tools like cities, agriculture and all the like...
It was like the mushroom catalyzed this like a chemical ally.
Our brains doubled in size... virtually overnight,
But once again, climate change came in effect,
And cut the mushroom supply...

So here we are: shamanic humans without ritual,
Spiritual beings back in the physical,
Patriarchal apes, but with power now,
The human experiment plays,
To the current day...

Yes, this is the human experiment...
The result of everything we see today...The journey of ordinary apes becoming human...It was climate change that drove us from the Garden of Eden, banishing us in search for food and a new way of life...this was the beginning.

The same thing that evolved us in its presence,
May now destroy us in its absence.
What helped us invent language... cities......civilization...
Led us to invent atom bombs the moment it left us...

What then was it...?