Lying by the dying flame

Drifting off to sleep

She drops the black leather journal

She's been clutching tight

She's a bio-engineer, hazard level four

She works the hot zone all the day



The demon seed smallpox weapons grade

Bought from Israeli intelligence

Gone rouge for a price

Decode the genome right down to the DNA

You break the code and you just might save the day



A serpent rising genetic weaponizing

There's a portent of pure evil lying out there in the dark

The hand of terror stands poised to ride out on the wind

Can we counter this undeserved hatred

Through our science and our research and the wisdom of our age

Or are we doomed to suffer at the hands of the Andromeda Strain?



Microscopic warfare the demon will retreat

From breakthrough after breakthrough

Using her own rare blood type the serum came to life

Time to publish and go clinical trial

But wait, a secret document sealed slipped through

A most insidious plot unfolds

Limited release to drive the need through the roof

The guaranteed supply secures the deal it's been approved

Assuring the quarter and the year



A serpent rising genetic weaponizing

What kind of twisted mind turns terror into cash

Sends the innocent to their death

You try to fight it but criminals united

Pharmaceutical injustice is a terror all its own

For want of power and love for the bottom line

They'll unleash the Andromeda Strain



A serpent rising genetic weaponizing

Script the sequence of the serum incorrectly to lead them on

Steal the formula destroy the seed and run

Need to fight back this undeserved terror

Through our science and our research and the cunning of our ways

Or we're sure to suffer at the hands

I'll disappear underground

Prepare to fight the next round

The Andromeda Strain