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Nature has a way of really touching you inside,
It's a lesson everyone must learn.
And ain't no use to try to run away or try to hide —
Everyone must finally take a turn.

You may be a person who believes it is your right
To be free and independent to the core.
But when you learn the ways of these exotic parasites,
You'll see that independence is a bore.

Toxoplasma gondii is a microscopic bug
Who carries all its genius in its genes.
It may be on your fingers or the fibers of your rug,
But to this bug there's more than it may seem.

When toxoplasma gets inside the system of a mouse,
It doesn't make him feel that he's unwell.
It gives the mouse the energy to run around the house
And not detect the prowling feline's smell.

In fact it makes the mouse become attracted to the cat,
It doesn't show a single sign of fright.
For toxoplasma seems to know presicely where it's at —
It is a truly cunning parasite.

The cat then turns the mouse into a ghost
And toxoplasma joins its natural host.

Now you are living as a parasite!
Ain't it easy living as a parasite?
You can make a living on another's life,
When you are living as a parasite.

The lancet liver fluke lives in the liver of a cow
And lays its eggs inside the cow's manure,
And there it starts an odyssey which somehow will allow
This tiny worm to work his way back to her.

The fluke infested feces is then eaten by a snail,
Who turns the chewing larva to a cyst
Excreted by the mollusk in a slimy yellow trail,
But the snail is only first on this fluke's list.

The adolescent liver fluke is eaten by an ant
And lives awhile an independent worm.
But then it does peculiar things that other insects can't —
It infiltrates a group of the ant's nerves.

The ant then spends his daily life as normal as before,
Working in the colony all day.
But every night the parasite residing at his core
Manipulates him in the stangest ways.

By the moon the ant will climb the tallest blade of grass
And sink his mandibles into the tip.
And there he will be paralyzed until the night has passed
Then back into the colony he'll slip.

And this will happen every single night
Until a grazing cow will come to bite.

Now you are living as a parasite!
Ain't it easy living when you're out of site?
Feeding off of others when they take a bite —
Now you are living as a parasite!

The ampulex compressa or emerald cockroach wasp
Is famous for her reproductive ways.
For when she has a common household cockroach in her grasp,
She sinks her stinger twice into her prey.

The first attack will paralyze the roach's frontal legs,
The second one goes straight into its brain.
For the wasp to have a nesting place to lay her egg
The roach mustn't respond to any pain.

The venom doesn't kill the roach but incapacitates
The nerves which tell its body to retreat
And since the wasp has killed the roach's instinct to escape
She takes the roach antenna as a leash.

She leads it to her burrow and she climbs upon the roach
And lays an egg upon its abdomen.
The larva chews its way into its docile captive host
And feasts upon the organs there within.

The roach will stays alive another week until the worm
Can spin its own cocoon and climb inside.
And in about a month the larval worm has finally turned
Into a wasp who leaves its host and flies.

And so the natural cycle is complete.
So who says reproduction isn't sweet?

Now you are living as a parasite!
Ain't it easy living as a parasite?
Symbiotic living is a natural right
When you are living as a parasite.

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