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Tiktaalik

from The Penn Project by Indoorfins

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Written for The University of Pennsylvania Penn Reading Program (2008)
Thank you Neil Shubin and his book, Your Inner Fish, for the inspiration.

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Tik-tik-tik-tik-tiktaalik

From the water to the land I
Learn to swim and learn to stand I'm
Found here by the hands of Neil Shubin
Carry me home and find the inner fish unknown
Here on the cusp between fish and tetrapods
Lie the skeletal remains in permafrost
Amphibiously name them tiktaalik

Carry me 3,000 miles in a plaster jacket
All the way from Ellesmere Island in the backseat of a rocket
Fly me 'round the world
To find my inner fish

Coming up to take a breath and
Have to use my rubber neck 'cause
I see some sheilas on the bank and I'm built for looking up
Crawl on all fours and do some pushups on the shore
375,000,000 years or more
An ancient salamander caged inside a cliff
No longer to meander
Tiktaalik

Carry me 3,000 miles in a jacket of plaster
All the way from Ellesmere Island, cargo on the helicopter
Fly me 'round the world
To find my inner fish

Evolution, revolution
Bulging eyes and fleshy peck
Dotted with some colored specks
One glance, second chance
Came upon you happenstance
Tiktaalik

Carry me 3,000 miles in a plaster jacket
All the way from Ellesmere Island in the backseat of a rocket
Fly me 'round the world
To find my inner fish

Tiktaalik

(Check out the video for Tiktaalik on Youtube!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9h1tR42QYA

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from The Penn Project, released October 14, 2013
Music and lyrics by Layton, Druckemiller and Smith
(Thank you to The University of Pennsylvania for the opportunity and thank you Neil Shubin for the inspiration)

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Since August of 1991, the Indoorfins have been navigating the waters of pop music in and around Lima, Ohio, weathering the time and tide of change, exploring the frontiers of electronic entertainment, all the while evading the shackles of international superstardom. ... more

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