I smell smoke that comes from a gun

Named extinction
Named extinction
Named extinction
Named

It was a long time ago, could have happened to anyone
He was struck by a bullet and he melted into fluid

Named extinction
Named extinction
Named extinction
Named

Extinction
One thousand miles an hour, I'm just like anyone
I want to feel the road of tar beneath the wheel

Named extinction
Named extinction
Named extinction
Named

And evolving from the sea would no be too much time for me
To walk beside you in the sun
I read something about a son of a gun

Named extinction
Extinction
Extinction



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The Sad Punk Lyrics as written by Charles Thompson

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    It's about how we're all driving around in the sad punk known as the dinosaur. While there are plenty of theories, there isn't really a "smoking gun" for what caused dinosaurs to die altogether. But we still "smell smoke" from cars which run on fossil fuels and drive on roads of tar, despite dinosaurs being extinct.

    "and evolving from the sea would no be too much time for me to walk beside you in the sun"

    This is a theme throughout Charles' music. Evolution and our aquatic fraternity.

    I think he ends the song with "I read something about a SON of a gun named extinction" which could be commenting on environmental factors that might lead to our own extinction. Like, with the dinosaurs, there was a "gun named extinction" that wiped them out. Now he has read something about "a son of a gun named extinction" or the next big live wiper-outer.

    edbankyon September 01, 2005   Link

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