Last Universal Ancestor Lyrics

Boundless source to fuel the change 
Thunder, lightning, rain 
Against a backdrop of extremes 
Evolution crucible 
Earth-engine finds its stride 
Despite thousand foot tides 
Time, the enabler of conditions 
For abiogenesis 

Chemical reactions 
to produce more complex molecules 
Simple organic compounds: nucleobase, amino groups 

Oceans command, a primitive world 
Black smokers or thermal vents 
Establish weather in the skies 
On the crust, clash tectonic plates 

Carve the face of mountains 
with movement of glaciers 
The highest peak dives deepest, 
but one day returns again 
It is believed, of the multiplicity of protocells 
Only one line survived – the last universal ancestor 

“Therefore, should infer from analogy that probably, 
all organic beings 
Which ever lived on this Earth have descended 
from some primordial form 
Into which life first breathed.... 
(the) great first cause of animality 
Delivering down those improvements 
by generation to posterity.” - Erasmus Darwin 

The last universal common ancestor 
Progenerator of the immortal gene 

At the deepest root of the tree of life, 
neither true animal or plant 
Alive in its purest form; 
something new, unique, in a vast Universe