Living Fossils

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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

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from Living Fossils, released March 9, 2024
Jon Allen - Lead Vocal Dilophosaurus
Brandon Demaria - Guitar Parasaurolophus
Bijan Eghtesady - Drum Brachiosaurus
CeCe Luckey - Accordion Ammonite
Ian Luckey - Bass & Backup Vocal Triceratops

“Living Fossils”
Music and Lyrics by Ian Luckey

Mixing and Mastering by Stemage

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