Mercury, which may be the name of an inhospitable planet and a volatile chemical but for our purposes is the name of one of the last human beings to have survived the apocalypse. The song begins with a guitar riff worthy of John McGeoch (and redolent of anything by Magazine or Ultrasound) and Japanese spoken word translated as “Is there anything that can save the world?” A longer, single version has our intrepid hero - Mercury - in the middle of a conversation that goes like this: “Today is a great day, don't you think?”– “Yes, I absolutely agree with you, despite the fact that our world is going to hell, and we are going there with it” – “Wait! Is there something that might save us?”Mercury answers: “That something is love.”