[Intro]
Nature has a way of
Really touching you inside
It's a lesson everyone must learn
It 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
Well once you learn the ways of these exotic parasites,‎
You'll see that Independence is a bore...‎

[Verse 1]
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
He doesn't show a single sign of fright
For toxoplasma seems to know precisely where it's at
It is a very cunning parasite
The cat then turns the mouse into a ghost
And Toxoplasma joins its natural host...
(The cat)
[Chorus]
Now you are a living as a parasite
Ain't it easy living as a parasite?
You can make a living off another's life
When you a living as a parasite!

[Verse 2]
The lancet liver fluke lives in the liver of a cow
And lays its eggs inside the cow's manure
There it starts an odyssey, which somehow will allow
This tiny worm to work its way back to her
The fluke-infested feces is then eaten by a snail
Who turns the larval worm into a cyst
Excreted by the mollusk in a slimy yellow trail
But the snail is only first on this fluke's list
The adolescent flukeworm is then eaten by an ant
And it lives awhile as an independent worm
But then it does a special thing that other insects can't‎
It infiltrates a group of the ant's nerves‎
The ant then spends its daily life as normal as before
Working in the colony all day
But every night the parasite residing at it's core
Manipulates him in the strangest 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
When back into the colony he'll slip
And this will happen every single night
Until a chewing cow will come to bite...‎
[Chorus]
Now you are a living as a parasite
Ain't it easy living as a parasite?
You can make a living off another's life
When you a living as a parasite!

[Verse 3]
The Ampulex Compressa or the "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 it's brain
For if the wasp's to have a nesting place to lay her egg‎s
The roach mustn't respond to any pain
The venom doesn't kill the roach but incapacitates
The nerves that tell his body to retreat
Since the wasp has killed the roach's instinct to escape
She takes a roach antenna as a leash
She leads it to her Burrow and she climbs upon the roach
And lays an egg upon it's abdomen
The larva chews its way into its docile captive host
And feasts upon the organs there within
The roach will stay 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?‎
[Chorus]
Now you are a living as a parasite
Ain't it easy living as a parasite?
You can make a living off another's life
When you a living as a parasite!