This song is about plastic.
It's supposed to be hilariously dark, but it might be neither.
It's kind of like a children's song , but not really at all. I just want everyone to have fun as we celebrate being absorbed by our own trash. I cleaned out my garage this, month, you'll never guess what i found. Oh, you guessed it.
lyrics
There’s a fantastic amount of plastic
Plastering the planet, blanketing the globe
There’s a fantastic amount of plastic
It’s in your rugged athletic footwear
It’s in your sexy bedroom robe
Islands in the ocean, mountains to the sky
It’s in every single person, it’s in everything you buy
Satellites like cigarette butts casually infecting space
Plastic’s the empty Dorito bag of the entire human race
We’re awash in plastic, drowning by the day
Designed for instant obsolescence, but to never ever go away
It’s a planetary scale abuse, trillions and trillions of single use
Burying us in our grave of overconsumption
And the flowers on our headstones we’re all made from plastic
And the cars that drove the mourners there, you guessed it, plastic
Electric safe and compactstic
With the promise of Spring at lastic
Yes, plastic was the answer to all the problems
Then the problem turned around and became plastic
Back to haunt us from the pastic
As the cumulative effects became drastic
Hey! I found your old toothbrush from when you were six years old!
It was right there with all the other plastic crap you’ve ever been sold
And it wasn’t going anywhere, or was it ever likely to
Combined with the plastic of the billions of all the people around you
And you can’t get away from it no matter what you do
All for the Saudi princes and the profits of Wall Street Avenue
So you’re got Senators in the plastics industry
Plasticity in the senators
Not to mention The Plastics Council or The Plastics Lobby
You got plastic in your food you got plastic in your children
You’ve got plastic in the center of your soul
Now there’s just no way to talk about plastic
Without being angry or sad
Unless you sing about hemp
And all the advantages to be had
One of the things that’s so rad
Anything that can be made from oil can be made from hemp
But the purveyors of greed aren’t farmers
That’s who they ran out long ago
What they sell instead is just a death pollution
When there’s always been a simple hemp solution
So they fooled us with a stupid triangle
For forty fucking years
Never recycled anything but only shifted gears towards making
YOU GUESSED IT, More Plastic!
Cause everyone felt so, placated
All their concerns had been ,vacated
It was cheaper to make it new, no actual recycling to have to go through
Just paid the redemption to pacify you
And so from the depths of the Mariana Trench, to the highest Himalayan summit
All you guitar playin heroes, it’s in your picking hand as you strum it
It’s in the hot water hoses of your house if you re-plumb it
It’s in the title of this song years from now when you still hum it
(12 tone crowd choir, boys against the girls)
Plastic you, Plastic me, Plastic us, Plastic we.
Plastic, It’s what we do, it’s inside of you, it’s never far, it’s who we are
It’s who we serve, not what we deserve
While hemp’s the clear path forward
As you humanity positions itself toward
Cleaner transitions toward future solutions
For the threatening scourge of plastic pollution
credits
from You’re Killing Me Fresno,
track released July 12, 2023
BKF: Keyboard, Samples, E-drum Foot Pedals, Voice, Song
These five songs are all recorded live, with the best performances edited together and mixed liberally. Vocal effects are added at the mix stage, so as to be able to, mix, them.
My name is Brian Kenney Fresno, and I have this super fun solo ROCK show
where I sing modern TALES of urban
legends and epics of the absurd- in a
sing along format, mostly about Fresno Ca, my home town, and everytime I say
"Fresno", everybody eats the raisins and says "WHOOO!" in a group
experience.
It's really fun!
Everybody laughs a lot!...more
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