Malevolence and providence Are opalescent in the telomere The forest floor and the petrichor The long and short of the telomere Of the telomere In your blood The one thing they can't take away The one thing they can't take away from me Away from you or replace Where the cells reside (it's in our blood) Splinter and divide (it's in our blood) They will never die In the telomere In the telomere that lives inside us And the people walking down below Crawling home alone like spiders As the cancer slowly starts to grow In your blood The one thing they can't take away The one thing they can't take away from you Away but don't be afraid Is living in our blood The one thing they can't take away The one thing they'll never take away from you Away, so don't be afraid Our telomere (is in our blood) Our telomere (is in our blood) Our telomere