On Mon, 28 May 2007, Sager, Greg wrote:

> Contrast Weller with his contemporary and compatriot, Sting, in what
> stands for me as perhaps the worst lyrical clunker ever, from "Walking
> In Your Footsteps":
> If we explode the atom bomb,
> Would they say that we were dumb?
> The premise of the song, which is that the extinction of the dinosaurs
> is a good object lesson for this planet's current dominant lifeform,
> *Homo sapiens*, is a good one. But Sting's consummate gracelessness as a
> lyricist drives home the point like a sledgehammer pounding a finishing
> nail into particle board. This couplet is merely the most egregious
> example within a song in which Sting's heavy-handedness completely ruins
> the usefulness of the premise. It's not only leaden and obtuse, it
> doesn't even rhyme.

Yikes, that is indeed pretty awful.
This is my favorite humans-as-dinosaurs song:
http://chalkhills.org/reelbyreal/s_Goodbye.html