"Galapagos (Mendel's Escape)"
lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman

/ A5 G FG A5 / - G F E5 / / 1st /

Legions of war machines pour through the gate
Relentless destroyers without heart or mind
Without rhyme or reason, without love or hate
To take what they need to build more of their kind

Their empire strikes forth from this desolate rock
Where engines cut bubbles through time and through space
Each new planet conquered with one swift, sharp shock
And the spoils of war carried home to this place

Another gate opens, another world burns
The minions bring back a most delicate prize
A machine that, like living things, changes and learns
The seed of their triumph -- or, perhaps, their demise

This tiny device will grant power to adapt
To their next generation of engines of war
But the prototype unit is helpless and trapped
To be tortured and studied and stripped to its core

Yet somehow this prototype, meek and alone
Crawled free through the complex, and four worlds as well
And, aided by agents unseen and unknown
Escaped, meanwhile blowing their whole base to hell