Mutant Generations Words by Bob Kanefsky © 1994-09-25 TTTO Spiral Dance by Anne Prather[A9]When I was young, I used to wonder, didn’t [G9]you, [A9]Why Mr. Spock had one head instead of [G9]two. How [D]creatures who are not our distant [A9]kin Would [G9]hit on breathing [G9/F#]through the pipe that food [Esus4]goes in. [E] [A9]It taught us an unscientific [G9]view, The [D]sameness in a [E]Federation [A9]crew. Chorus: You’d [G9]think the dance of life for several [A9]billion years Would prod[G9]uce more [G9/F#]variation than just [Esus4]pointed [E]ears. It [A9]violates the laws we thought we [G9]knew, The [D]sameness in a [E]Federation [A9]crew. We’re closer to a radish than a Romulan, An unrelated creature of a foreign sun. How can a Klingon/human couple mate? She’s closer to the gak that squirms upon her plate. How could each evolve from different gobs of goo To the sameness of a Federation crew? (Chorus) What makes a moose a moose and not a kangaroo? Remoteness for a hundred million years or two. And breeding for a mere few hundred years Can yield a dog with floppy or with pointed ears. No billion-year-old seeding program grew The sameness of a Federation crew. (Chorus) Did convergent evolution shape them all by chance, To fit in Star Fleet’s regulation shoes and pants? What narcissism makes five-fingered hands Prerequisites for venturing from native lands? There’s more richness in a single planet’s zoo Than the sameness in a Federation crew. (Chorus)