Reminiscence On Behalf Of The Species (Work in progress) - Lyrics

In Reminiscence On Behalf Of The Species The Footage offer us a satirical piece of eschatology, a look back at the dying days of the human race encompassing our fumbling attempts to work out a political system that worked (the failure of communism, the debasing effect of Friedman's rampant capitalism), the blindness of religious fundamentalism and our slide towards ecological disaster.

Luckily, considering the density of the subject matter, the Footage were kind enough to wrap it all up in a catchy pop song featuring a profusion of musical ideas including a couple of memorable guitar riffs and an amusing, dissonant piece of punctuation leading into the second verse.

R.O.B.O.T.S. (note the sinister acronym) concludes with the beautifully chilling image of what must be the 9/11 suicide bombers "armed with heaven, armed with death" taking a breath and hurtling "through the screaming sky".

But it looks like that was all a bit of a distraction. What did it for the human race in the end was our inability to do anything about the threat of climate change other than give a resigned shrug and sigh (a Beach Boys parodying) "You're not the little world I once knew".