Dinosaur (2009)

Everything passes on, new forms arrive. We will quite naturally vanish in turn- and its interesting to consider that in 200 million years time there will be fossils of human skeletons wearing the faint imprint of wristwatches, fossils of cars and washing machines in dried riverbeds, fossils of bicycle tracks, car treads, footprints in  the rock bearing the Nike swoosh. We mammals scuttled in terror around the feet of the dinosaurs in the Triassic period, and now those dinosaurs have become the chicken bones we toss outside KFC.  The only eternal element of life is the helix, the endless lifespan of Genetic Life. It’s a ladder built out of our bodies, stretching back to the first pseudo-protozoan form… so whilst considering the insignificant flicker of your own existence,  its slightly comforting to bear in mind that through our genes we all play a tiny part in this immortal family history. This was an attempt to write a song about this. To be honest I didn’t do it justice yet. After all, its a big theme- its got 3.8 billion years of sex and death built into it. That’s a lot to pack into four minutes.

DINOSAUR
DIDNT KNOW, HE WOULD FALL
-NOW HE’S GONE.
YEARS GO BY, SO MUCH TIME..
NUMBER ONE, LIVING IT, KILLING IT
-NOW HE’S GONE.
FORM TO FORM, LIFE KEEPS ON

EACH IN TURN
HAS A DAY IN THE SUN.
LIFE GOES ON
FORM TO FORM- TOOTH AND CLAW.
YOU AND ME,
AND EVERYBODY YOU CAN SEE,
ARE ANIMALS -
AND ANIMALS RISE AND FALL.

WE’LL NEVER END
WE CARRY ON
AND WE CAN NEVER KNOW
WHAT WE’LL BECOME.
IT’S SOMETHING OF A SYMPHONY
WHERE THE LITTLE NOTES
WERE YOU AND ME.
SKIN AND BONE, THATS ALL OF US
BECOME THE PAST, BECOME THE DUST
BUT WE’LL NEVER END – WE NEVER END.