Extinction

0. Lyrics to song

Intro:

1):
Are we merely animals, 
struggling to survive, 
evolving, adapting, 
drone-like in a hive? 
So mightily proud of our hard-wired brain, 
superior organ in a vicious game, 
our DNA reproducing
always the same. 

2):
Now the climate's gone haywire, 
the sky is unleashing its ire. 
We're striving to make sustainable, 
a state of affairs that's unattainable. 
Destitute, without words,
to say who we are. 
Mouthing outworn phrases,
encrusted in tartar. 

Ref. 1): 
Prevent extinction,
save our species,
is this a matter
of dire urgency?
Another message
has long since gone under,
left us barking
up the wrong tree.

3): 
Oh, you rational animal, 
reaching for the stars, 
cleverly scheming, 
hatching designs on Mars. 
Resourceful to the point of ruthlessness,
grasping to the point of senselessness,
ambitious to the point of imbecility. 

4): 
And if extinction is not to be our fate, 
there's yet a harder destiny that lies in wait, 
hidden 'round the corner, faintly hair-drawn, 
eerily foreshadowed, in the coming morn. 

Ref. 2): 
Prevent extinction,
save our species,
is this the one matter
of dire urgency?
Another message
has long since slipped by,
left us speaking
so futilely.
(shooby-doo &c.) 

1. MP3 audio file 

Extinction  MP3 audio file