Words and music by Lisa Jones Bromfield
Performed by Lisa Jones Bromfield and Bill Bromfield
Small spheres of phospholipids
Keeping RNA in, other stuff out
Evolving chemical perpetual motion
Eventually able to shout
Who am I, How did I get here?
We seem to think we are the first
Is it not still glorious
With or without a seven day birth
A tendency toward life
Life breaking expectations
To the extreme many survive.
High salt, high heat, no oxygen
And yet organisms thrive
Who am I, How did I get here?
We seem to think we are the first to ask
But is it not still glorious
Without another performing the task
A tendency toward life
Life is the usual, it’s commonplace
Where does that leave very special me?
Here synaptically asking questions
So glad to be alive and free
Who am I, How did I get here?
I won’t be the first to know
It’s glorious unveiling life’s power
It’s a grand biological show.
A tendency toward life
(C)(P) 2021 by Lisa Jones Bromfield and Bill Bromfield, Clockwise Records – Waterfield Music (ASCAP). All rights reserved.
Video clips used in “Tendency Towards Life” song video by Lisa Jones & Bill Bromfield came from the longer length videos linked below. Check out pexels.com, use the work of and acknowledge the folks who share their artistry there.
- Stars video (repeats at end) https://www.pexels.com/video/time-lapse-video-of-milky-way-galaxy-857134/
- Free stock video of boiling liquid, calamity, caldera Maria Leonova
- Living under a dark field microscope #4 – single celled organisms in water, moving – Mike Rosescope
- Mitosis, a lot of cells dividing synchronously https://youtu.be/m73i1Zk8EA0 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq1CRX2tsnUXp3gxqKH94Eg
- Water bear video – Peggy Lopipero-Langmo https://youtu.be/0MtLGmhgLbk
- Sea Anemone Clinging On Rocks Underwater Video by Magda Ehlers
- Lichen on rock – RODNAE Productions https://www.pexels.com/video/nature-dirty-forest-pattern-8552303/
- A Starfish Underwater Adrien JACTA
- Sunflower seed sprout time lapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5mHzwEOpp4
- Low Angle View Of Tall Trees Yaroslav-Shuraev https://www.pexels.com/@yaroslav-shuraev
- An Insect Curls Before Crawling Goodbye Boring Advertising and Design: goodbyeboring.co.za
- Waterfall in the Forest Peter Fowler
- Close Up Video Of Ants Pixabay
- Mushrooms growing – time lapse : from shutterstock
- Amazing Underwater Marine Life Magda Ehlers
- Chameleon! – Pressmaster https://www.pexels.com/video/a-chameleon-resting-on-a-piece-of-wood-3191354/
- Sunflowers Plantation In A Farm Field Indigo Blackwood
- Murmuration of birds – Egor Kunovsky https://www.pexels.com/video/flock-of-birds-in-a-murmuration-flight-3851642/