This marks the addition of keyboards to our sound. To be more specific, an early-model Casio with about 3/4 of a full 88 keys and four voices (piano, organ, harpsichord and either violin or clarinet, I forget which). You'd think that I, a touch typist, would find playing keyboards a snap, but you would be wrong. I've very much in the "hunt and peck" tradition. So there's no dazzling glissandos or barrelhouse pounding going on here. I mainly used it to accentuate the chords, and stuck to the notes associated with each.
Now, the song. It's the only (as far as I can recall) excursion I made into a common theme in science fiction, namely, of being the last human in the world, most recently seen in Will Smith's I Am Legend. It follows, too, a small tradition of SF in rock, such as the Rolling Stones' "2000 Light Years From Home," Elton John's "Rocket Man," and David Bowie's "Major Tom." "Space Oddity."
That might also explain why I inexplicably started singing this (faintly at the start, more pronouncedly towards the end) with an English accent. I later looked it up, and as the examples above indicate, it is illegal to attempt SF rock without an English accent. It's not just a suggestion: It's the LAW.
Whew. I was worried I was having an aneurism or something.
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Yesterday morning the sky lit up
It shone with deadly glare
I saw the contrail
Of the last transport
I didn't mean to be
The very last man on earthNo, I didn't mean to be
The very last man on earth-------------------------------------------------
[Chorus x 2]
Men's cities sit deserted
And men's machines rusted out
Men's museums vandalized
And churches blasted downMen's inventions inventoried
And packed away for good
Men have fled the world
And I'm the last man on earth
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Tomorrow this tired old world
will crack and shudder and break
I've got a front-row seat at the Apocalypse
I didn't mean to be
The very last man on earthNo, I didn't mean to be
The very last man on earth
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The Very Last Man On Earth Warning: Embedded QuickTime audio.
The above link has been quite sluggish of late, so here's another. Unfortunately it isn't a streaming site, but you can click on the download link, and when the Windows or equivalent dialog box appears, you can elect to save it to disk, or (first choice) open up the song with the default media player, like iTunes, WinAmp, or Windows Media Player. The Very Last Man On Earth
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Just Like A Woman