OUT OF A STICKY YELLOW GLOB

Words byZan, tune 'Out of a Clear Blue Sky' by Dr. Jane

Once upon a dino's head
A drunken insect burped and said
'Hey man, this blood is really groovy
I'm seeing like this freaky movie.
Gather round and lend an ear
I've flashed on stuff you ought to hear.'
He took another slurp of haemoglobin
And visions through his brain began a-strobin'....

CHORUS
'There is this amber stuff that comes from a tree
And when it cools it hardens you see
It'll trap me inside so that after I've died
I'll turn into a fossil
And the consequences could turn out to be colossal.'

'When the dinosaurs are dead
The earth belongs to apes instead
And apes will always poke and pry
Into the dust of times gone by.
So from the grave of some dead tree
An ape will someday dig up Me.'
The other insects chittered with disdain
And so our hero told them once again...

CHORUS

'Apes by now will have the means
To remake life by splicing genes
They'll suck the blood out of my tummy
So I'll become a dino's mummy
And just the way it was before
The dinos will be tops once more.'
The other insects still refused to hear
And so our hero told them with a sneer...

CHORUS

Thus spake our hero in his pride
As on the dino he did ride
But as he reached his final act
There was a sickening impact
A tree had struck the dino's head
And squashed our visionary dead.
And as he died he muttered with a frown
'I really should have got it written down...'

FINAL CHORUS
'There was this amber stuff that came from a tree
But now it will hold nothing of me
All the blood I have drunk is spread over the trunk
I'll never be a fossil
And the consequences could turn out to be colossal.'
(Without me how will Spielberg survive?)
(Without me how will Hollywood survive?)
(Without me how will cinema survive?)

(Whaddya mean, some other bug?!)