Los homenajes paleontológicos de Nervous Rex

Nervous Rex es un grupo de Bristol que se define como "la primera banda de dino-punk no binaria de Gran Bretaña". Compuesta por JC (batería y voces), Elliot (bajo y voces) y Zyn (guitarra y coros), sus primeras grabaciones han servido para homenajear a dos de las grandes heroínas del mundo de la Paleontología: Mary Anning y la "chica lista" de Jurassic Park que acaba con el cazador Robert Muldoon.

La letra de "Mary, Mary" es la siguiente:

Mary, Mary
Don’t you ever scare me again.
Born to storms and lightning strikes
From a girl in a world of men
My only girl to survive past ten
Mary, Mary
Don’t you ever scare me again

And I’m so sorry we don’t have the money for bread.
But we can scour the cliffs and we can sell the rocks instead.
Yeah we’ll sell them to the tourists, sell them to the town, sell them to the lords and sell them to crown, sell them to the Greatest minds of our time and the kings of Europe just to get by
We’ll sell seashells by the seashore
We’ll sell seashells by the seashore

Mary, Mary
Don’t you ever scare me again
I’ve watched as your poor little dog got lost to the rocks and i’m shocked
That the work that you do with your hands, ends up with the name of a man
Bought and claimed as the property of those who’ll never live in poverty.

Breaking new ground, but still you’re not allowed
Because your name aint right, your church aint right, your class aint right, your gender aint right. The life that you risk full of science aint right, but you’re still fighting just to get by.
You’ll sell seashells by the seashore
You’ll sell seashells by the seashore

Mary, Mary
Don’t you ever scare me again.
One day the great minds will wait in line for your audience
The girl who only went to Sunday school knows more than them
You did it yourself you learned those books and that tortures them

And the rocks that you found on our beach, maybe one day they’ll reach
All around the globe and change what we know about where life comes from
About where it goes, your lifetime of work will be shown and the tourists, and lords and crown will all know that you selled seashells by the seashore.

She selled seashells by the seashore
She selled seashells by the seashore
She selled seashells by the seashore
She selled seashells by the seashore

Mary, Mary
No don’t you ever scare me
Mary, Mary
No don’t you ever scare me
Mary, Mary
No don’t you ever scare me
Mary, Mary
No Don’t you ever scare me again

A continuación, la letra de "Clever Girl":

She’s got bad girl DNA from the badlands, and when your life finds a life in to her hands
With extreme intelligence she’ll test your defence for weakness
Systematically, yeah she’s working you out automatically.
She’s five steps ahead of you can’t you see.
Yet still men spare no expense just to meet her she’s quick like a cheetah
She’s a maneater.

She’s a clever girl a clever girl a clever girl
clever girl a clever girl a clever girl
clever girl a clever girl a clever girl
clever girl a clever girl a clever girl

She’s the born leader of the pack, you stare at her she’ll stare right back.
Take extreme precautions, You're her main course she'll sink her claws in
Like razors you’ll never see the danger
Did you think a man could save a woman on a mission?
She’s out in force can’t put her in the kitchen, she knows how to open the door

She’s a clever girl a clever girl a clever girl
clever girl a clever girl a clever girl
clever girl a clever girl a clever girl
clever girl a clever girl a clever girl

Y si te han gustado las canciones, también puedes hacerte con las camisetas que el grupo ha puesto a la venta por diez libras. Un Archaeopteryx con la leyenda "Use your feathers to fly" y el logo de la banda, en dos colores para ser el más molón de tu barrio.