Dna - Baba Brinkman

We are made of DNA

We are made of DNA

Deoxyribonucleic

Acid is what we are made of

We are made of DNA

We are made of DNA

Strands of double helix

Are where all these bodies came from

In the story of life on this crazy planet

The protagonist isn’t man, no

It’s a microscopic information package

Called deoxyribonucleic acid

The DNA strand has the same basic plan

In every living thing, every plant

Every animal, every little flea

Has the same proteins with a certain percentage

Of the same genes arranged identically

It’s no coincidence;

it means every living thing

Has a shared ancestor with every living thing

This is true for Jews and Christians and Sufi mystics

And Buddhists and every religion and superstition

If you can listen to this it means you’re passing through

This existence on a wave of DNA

And you’re just one of its newest inventions

We are made of DNA

We are made of DNA

Deoxyribonucleic

Acid is what we are made of

We are made of DNA

We are made of DNA

Strands of double helix

Are where all these bodies came from

Now if you want me to tell you how a simple molecule

Could build bodies so well with such an obvious wealth

Of variation and adaptation, well

In DNA’s case it’s ‘cause it copies itself

And makes little mistakes which would not really help

Except that one in every million is a slight improvement

And leaves more copies, whether mice or humans

And that’s what keeps this whole life thing movin'

Changing and growing and competing for mates

‘Cause that’s the only way to keep your DNA

Up in the race, which explains a lot

Like how animals and plants all behave in the wild

So next time you shake hands or break dance

Or make plans, don’t forget the straight facts

The information that makes your brains and hands

Comes from one place: DNA strands

We are made of DNA

We are made of DNA

Deoxyribonucleic

Acid is what we are made of

We are made of DNA

We are made of DNA

Strands of double helix

Are where all these bodies came from

Yeah, this goes out to Watson and Crick

Who discovered the twist

And to the Human Genome Project

And to those who speed up the process

I mean like Digital PCR

Record a gene faster than a VCR

This is the future so you better get used to it

This is what we are