Akira The Don - Back To The Lobster lyrics

I'm quite enamored of lobsters as some of you might know Because I found out This just blew me away when I found it out Just exactly how much continuity there was in the neural chemistry of human beings, and the neural chemistry of animals Absolutely staggering It's the sort of thing that makes the fact of evolution something like self evident Random mutation, natural selection is the only way you can solve the problem of how to deal with an environment that's Complex beyond your ability to comprehend To generate endless variance, because God only knows what the hell's gonna happen next They'll almost all of them die because they're failures and a couple will propagate And you know, the environment keeps moving around like a giant snake You never know what it's gonna do next And so, the best you can do is say, “Well,” “Here's 30 things that might work” and You know 28 of them are gonna perish Anyways, back to the lobsters {Chorus} Back to the lobsters, back to the lobsters, back to the lobsters Back to the lobsters, back to the lobsters, back to the lobsters So these creatures engage in dominance disputes So it really is the toughest lobster that wins And what's so cool about the lobster is that When a lobster wins, he flexes and gets bigger So he looks bigger because he's a winner It's like he's advertising that The neurochemical system that makes him flex is serotonergic And you think, "Who cares? What the hell does that mean?" I'll tell you what it means It's the same chemical that's affected by antidepressants in human beings So like, if you're depressed You're a defeated lobster, you're like this I'm small, things are dangerous Defeated lobster you're like this I'm small, I don't want to fight You give somebody an antidepressant, it's like up they stretch and then they're ready to take on the world again Well, if you give lobsters who just got defeated in a fight serotonin, then they stretch out and they'll fight again Like we separated from those creatures on the evolutionary timescale somewhere between 350 and 600 million years ago And the damn neurochemistry is the same And so that's another indication of just how important hierarchies of authority are {Chorus} Back to the lobsters, back to the lobsters, back to the lobsters Back to the lobsters, back to the lobsters, back to the lobsters