Текст песни
People said that the mass extinction event
Started with a single-use festival tent
Left in a field by an entitled kid
Abandoned in the mud at the end of a gig
As the final song of the set of the last headline band
Still echoed on the wind carried across the farmland
Over the hills, the valleys, and dales
To the foodbanks of England, Scotland, and Wales
We need to try harder
We need to do better
The wind carried the song to the cities and towns
To the ghost bars and clubs that the pandemic closed down
Where it was sung by drunks and legends who didn't know the words
Before crossing the ocean where the song would be heard
In Manhattan highrises and on beaches in Tel Aviv
It was played on a piano on at a bombed-out apartment near Kyiv
The white grand piano in the rubble and ruin and the calm as it was played
Was a scene so theatrical people said it had to be staged
In the deserts of Sudan and the gardens of Japan
They listened to the song of the set of the last headline band
From counting to fade, from E minor to B
People danced, people prayed, others took a knee
They called it a rock and roll mayday, a pop S.O.S
It was on every radio broadcast, every public address
We need to try harder, we need to do better
We need to believe that we're in this together
We need to try harder
We need to do better
Whatever earworm does it for you (we need to try harder)
Mozarts, Requiem or black basses, that could do
Imagine that playing now, all over the world
Or points on the compass (we need to do better)
In Utah, in Colorado in shelters and bunkers
We're preppers who've been prepping for the end for so long (we need to try harder)
Now have nothing to look forward to and so they joined in with a song
And when the song has been heard by the whole human race (we need to do better)
Like a billionaire nerd, it was sent into space