daniel kahn & the painted bird - parasites lyrics
nature has a way of
really touching you inside
it’s a
lesson everyone must learn
it
ain’t no use to try to run away or
try to hide
everyone must finally
take a turn
you may be a person
who believes it is your right
to
be free and independent to the
core
well once you learn the ways
of these exotic
parasites,
you’ll see that
independence is a
bore…
toxoplasma gondii is a
microscopic bug
who carries all
its g*nius in its genes
it may be
on your fingers or the fibers of
your rug
but to this bug there’s
more than it may seem
when
toxoplasma gets inside the system
of a mouse
it doesn’t make him
feel that he’s unwell
it gives
the mouse the energy to run around
the house
and not detect the
prowling feline’s smell
in fact
it makes the mouse become
attracted to the cat
he doesn’t
show a single sign of
fright
toxoplasma seems to know
precisely where it’s at
it is a
very cunning parasite
the cat
then turns the mouse into a
ghost
and toxoplasma joins its
natural host… the cat
now you
are living as a parasite
ain’t it
easy living as a parasite?
you
can make a living off another’s
life
when you are living as a
parasite
the lancet liver fluke
lives in the liver of a cow
and
lays its eggs inside the cow’s
manure
there it starts an odyssey
which somehow will allow
this
tiny worm to work its way back to
her
the fluke-infested feces is
then eaten by a snail
who turns
the larval worm into a
cyst
excreted by the mollusk in a
slimy yellow trail
but the snail
is only first on this fluke’s
list
the adolescent flukeworm is
then eaten by an ant
and it lives
awhile as an independent worm
but
then it does a special thing that
other insects can’t
it
infiltrates a group of the ant’s
nerves
the ant then spends its
daily life as normal as
before
working in the colony all
day
but every night the
parasite residing at his
core
manipulates him in the
strangest ways
by the moon the
ant will climb the tallest blade
of gr-ss
and sink his mandibles
into the tip
and there he will be
paralyzed
until the night has
p-ssed
when back into the colony
he slips
and this will happen
every single night
until a
chewing cow will come to
bite…
the ampulex compressa or
“emerald c-ckroach wasp”
is
famous for her reproductive
ways
for when she has a common
household c-ckroach in her
grasp
she sinks her stinger twice
into her prey
the first attack
will paralyze the roach’s frontal
legs
the second one goes straight
into his brain
for if the wasp’s
to have a nesting place to lay her
egg
the roach mustn’t respond to
any pain
the venom doesn’t k!ll
the roach but incapacitates
the
nerves that tell his body to
retreat
since the wasp has k!lled
the roach’s instinct to
escape
she takes a roach antenna
as a leash
she leads him to her
burrow and she climbs upon the
roach
and lays an egg upon his
abdomen
the larva chews its way
into its docile captive host
and
feasts upon the organs there
within
the roach will stay alive
another week until the worm
can
spin its own cocoon and climb
inside
and in about a month the
larval worm has finally
turned
into a wasp who leaves its
host and flies
and so the natural
cycle is complete
so who says
reproduction isn’t sweet?
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