From the recordings Macro2Micro, Jim Ocean's "Poetic Science" Sampler, and Songs for Mother Earth
A satirical song about the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch". Shocked to life in a 'fierce electric storm' a new monster is born. Plastilla wreaks havoc as a Salsa band flees for their lives.
Lyrics
Plastilla
by Jim Ocean, copyright 2010
Plastilla coalesced
In a fierce electric storm
Over the North Pacific Gyre
He took a massive breath
It echoed off the clouds
And crackled ‘round the Earth like fire
The next thing that we knew
Were the ships floating like jellyfish
With suffocated passengers and crews
The satellite photos
Showed a wall of water coming
Heading for the North Pacific Coast
Oh No! Plastilla! (3X)
Corre, corre, corre por tu vida!
Better run for your life!
Plastilla hit the shore
He swallowed Anchorage first
Then took Seattle with a plastic roar
Before we could react
Portland was attacked
He spread his wax up the Columbia River Gorge
We sent the submarines
Who fired all their means
But he just kept roiling to the south
We knew that we were doomed
When he swallowed all our nukes
And just blew smoke rings from his mouth
Oh No! Plastilla! (3X)
Corre corre corre por tu vida!
Better run for your life!
We barely had time
To make it out alive
We headed east as fast as we could go
We stared down from a peak
And watched that plastic sheet
Cover the Bay and Mt. Diablo
Now we’re stranded here in Denver
Where the Rockies bitter winter
Has slowed his plasticene tide
We have time for one more song
As a way to say “So long…”
As he crests the Continental Divide…
Oh No! Plastilla (3X)
He wants to shrinkwrap the Earth
Juego, juego, juego terminado!
Game over man!
Plastilla
by Jim Ocean, copyright 2010
Plastilla coalesced
In a fierce electric storm
Over the North Pacific Gyre
He took a massive breath
It echoed off the clouds
And crackled ‘round the Earth like fire
The next thing that we knew
Were the ships floating like jellyfish
With suffocated passengers and crews
The satellite photos
Showed a wall of water coming
Heading for the North Pacific Coast
Oh No! Plastilla! (3X)
Corre, corre, corre por tu vida!
Better run for your life!
Plastilla hit the shore
He swallowed Anchorage first
Then took Seattle with a plastic roar
Before we could react
Portland was attacked
He spread his wax up the Columbia River Gorge
We sent the submarines
Who fired all their means
But he just kept roiling to the south
We knew that we were doomed
When he swallowed all our nukes
And just blew smoke rings from his mouth
Oh No! Plastilla! (3X)
Corre corre corre por tu vida!
Better run for your life!
We barely had time
To make it out alive
We headed east as fast as we could go
We stared down from a peak
And watched that plastic sheet
Cover the Bay and Mt. Diablo
Now we’re stranded here in Denver
Where the Rockies bitter winter
Has slowed his plasticene tide
We have time for one more song
As a way to say “So long…”
As he crests the Continental Divide…
Oh No! Plastilla (3X)
He wants to shrinkwrap the Earth
Juego, juego, juego terminado!
Game over man!
Plastilla
by Jim Ocean, copyright 2010
Plastilla coalesced
In a fierce electric storm
Over the North Pacific Gyre
He took a massive breath
It echoed off the clouds
And crackled ‘round the Earth like fire
The next thing that we knew
Were the ships floating like jellyfish
With suffocated passengers and crews
The satellite photos
Showed a wall of water coming
Heading for the North Pacific Coast
Oh No! Plastilla! (3X)
Corre, corre, corre por tu vida!
Better run for your life!
Plastilla hit the shore
He swallowed Anchorage first
Then took Seattle with a plastic roar
Before we could react
Portland was attacked
He spread his wax up the Columbia River Gorge
We sent the submarines
Who fired all their means
But he just kept roiling to the south
We knew that we were doomed
When he swallowed all our nukes
And just blew smoke rings from his mouth
Oh No! Plastilla! (3X)
Corre corre corre por tu vida!
Better run for your life!
We barely had time
To make it out alive
We headed east as fast as we could go
We stared down from a peak
And watched that plastic sheet
Cover the Bay and Mt. Diablo
Now we’re stranded here in Denver
Where the Rockies bitter winter
Has slowed his plasticene tide
We have time for one more song
As a way to say “So long…”
As he crests the Continental Divide…
Oh No! Plastilla (3X)
He wants to shrinkwrap the Earth
Juego, juego, juego terminado!
Game over man!