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Gone Fission
Words & Music by Brooke Lunderville, 2006.
A solemn testimonial to the awe-inspiring power of cell division. Okay, no, this is just what happens when I realize "Hee hee, amino acid rhymes with flaccid." Aren't those ugly-looking chords? In my defense, barre chords are a LOT easier on banjo.

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Friends, has life at a cellular scale lost its grand appeal?			C  C#  C  Baug
Have your peptides lost their pep? Have your proteins begun to anneal?		C  C#  C  G
Are your amino acids flaccid? Do you suffer from limp RNA?			C  C#  D  D#
Is your protoplasm an empty chasm of boredom and general decay?  If so...	C  B  Bb  A  Ab  G
	
Take heart!  For I once suffered even as you suffer now				C  C#  C  Baug
Yet I stand before you the picture of health, and I can tell you how!		C  C#  C  G
So if your ribosomes are all sombre, and your nuclear envelope's licked		C  C#  D  D#
And your organelles have begun to swell, why, listen to my simple trick!	C  B  Bb  A
 
Mitosis!						D  	
Will cure all your microbial neuroses			D   G   D
Mitosis!						D
There is no need to resort to apoptosis, 		D   A  A7
Mitosis!						D
Just split yourself in two				D   G
Mitosis!						D
You'll have another you					D   A   D

So when your golgi complex goes simple and your pinocytosis runs dry		D  D#  D  C#
Just head on down to the copy room and let your spindles fly			D  D#  D  A
Get your DNA to do the splits! Throw a party in your centromere			D  G  D  A
Oh, meet me down at the telophase pub and I'll buy you a chromatid beer!	D  G  A  D

Mitosis!						D  	
Will cure all your microbial neuroses			D   G   D
Mitosis!						D
There is no need to resort to apoptosis, 		D   A  A7
Mitosis!						D
Just split yourself in two				D   G
Mitosis!						D
You'll have another you					D   A   D

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