The Cell's Lament
(to the tune of 'Yesterday')
Copyright ©2003 Kevin Ahern

I am very pleased that Mr. Tim Karplus has made a professional recording of this song (more to come!). A downloadable MP3 of this song can be downloaded HERE and others can be downloaded HERE. You will need to unzip the file to release the MP3. This song is also contained on the new Metabolic Melodies CD available for sale HERE.

Instructor sings
Woe is me
My substrates are losing entropy
Causing gains in Gibbs free energy
Oh I can't lose no en - tro- py

Re-a-lly
I could use a source of enthalpy
To combat the rise in Delta G
Oh I believe in enthalpy

Everyone sings
I crave en-er-gy
Don't you see?
It's getting worse

My re-actions all
Soon will stall
And then rever-r-r-se

Instructor sings
ATP
It's the metabolic currency
Guess I'll spend a bit judiciously
To help reduce the Delta G
Help reduce the Delta G