Living Fossils

Crawling all around the ocean floor Something's on its way up to the shore Hailing from a long forgotten time Even older than the dinosaurs Looking like some kind of alien Covered by an exoskeleton Searching with so many different eyes And regenerating missing limbs Here since the Ordovician If it ain't broke, don't fix it 450 million years is nice But it's just the beginning We're surrounded by living fossils Ancient life is unstoppable Others die while the strong survive With the power to adapt We're surrounded by living fossils Overcoming the impossible Mass extinction is no big thing For the horseshoe crab In the world of modern medicine Even now their blood is harvested Gooey, blue, and worth its weight in gold Due to the amebocytes within Hear the scuttling of little legs Through the mud to lay a thousand eggs On the beaches they will come to spawn When the moon is in the perfect phase Here since the Ordovician If it ain't broke, don't fix it 450 million years is nice But it's just the beginning We're surrounded by living fossils Ancient life is unstoppable Others die while the strong survive With the power to adapt We're surrounded by living fossils Overcoming the impossible Mass extinction is no big thing For the horseshoe crab We can't immortalize them in song 'Cause they'll still be here long after we're gone No, we can't immortalize them in song 'Cause they'll still be here long after we're gone No, we can't immortalize them in song 'Cause they'll still be here long after we're gone No, we can't immortalize them in song 'Cause they'll still be here long after we're gone No, we can't immortalize them in song 'Cause they'll still be here long after we're gone