The Vision Thing

(to the tune of “Star Spangled Banner”)

Copyright © 2012 Kevin Ahern
I am very pleased that Mr. David Simmons has made a professional recording of this song (complete song download HERE) and others can be downloaded HERE. You will need to unzip the file to release the MP3. I am providing all songs for free download, but hope you will support this effort by purchasing my Metabolic Melody albums or calendar at the URLs at the bottom of the lyrics to this song.

Did you know you can see

In the dimmest of light

With your rods and your cones

And their retinaldehyde

Found in rhodopsin it’s

Got a bond shaped as cis

But it changes its state

When a photon gets it straight

Then the sign’ling kicks in

Thanks to a transducin

Cuz its GTP ways

Turn on diesterase

So gated ion channels stop

Charges from passing through

Such as sod-i-um plus one

And cal-ci-um plus two

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