Hold Onto Your Butts

Dark, gritty, grimy, and dirty just like I imagine the Tithonian era was. This song’s lyrics pull inspiration from the Jurassic Period, as well as from the Jurassic Park Period [of my life], which we’re actually still in (The JPPBS ranges from the very very very very late upper Quaternary Period of the late Cenozoic Era to modern day).

Yeah, I know Stegosauruses aren’t in the first movie, but it’s ok. Even though there’s no Stegosaurus in the first movie (there are some pretty inconsistently-sized ones in the second movie), I still take inspo from the first movie for these lyrics. Let’s see if you can spot some examples. The song’s not about the movie at all, but Feff Goldblum and Sam Jackson and co definitely find their ways in.

I’ve been finding myself quoting or referencing JP1 literally every single day. Also, my Internet algorithm INSISTS that i engage with JP content every time i log on. My entire YouTube feed, besides Vulfpeck music videos and NBA highlights is stuff like “REAL PALEONTOLOGIST breaks down everything WRONG with the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park,” or “I recreated every T-rex scene in Jurassic Park with kittens.” So I dunno if The Internet is making me think more about JP, or if my obsession with JP is [fossil]fueling the algorithm. It’s definitely a Velociraptor Or The Egg situation though.

But yeah, I feel like JP1 is… kind of my favorite movie? Could be. What’s your fav scene?

It is pretty crazy though (and shameful, really) that the computer I made this song with is powered by dinosaur bones. Maybe that’s one of the reasons the main character is so aggressive?

prim perc: the metal wires of the paddock being snapped by the t-rex’s little arms when he escapes after Newman switched off the power. Always loved that sound. Sounds like a spring reverb sound. Every time i hear that noise (like when i drop or bump an amp that has the reverb turned up high) I think of this scene.

lyrics

You never know, you never know…

When you gotta go you gotta go

I’m a big ol’ fuckin’ stegosaurus 

And I’m all complete with the horns 

And the beak

I’m a rigged-up truck, sharp mega-tortoise

And I’m all complete with the horns 

And the beak (and the beak)

I’m a big and sharp and pointy motherfucker

gonna choke when you eat me (eat me!)

At the shoreline with my baby

And I guess maybe you can meet me and try… my meat

(Hey what’s that in the sky, ya see it?)

Been around for a real long time

Up from the water; out of the slime

We dominate, with our teeth and then our bones

We move in herds (they do move in herds!) under the stones 

Everything that you know about us: limited to bones (and stones)

It all happened in a blink

“Everything WRONG with Jurassic park in 10 minutes”

I’d click that link

We’re on the brink

You Fuck around with me and you will get spiked 

And in thse movies, it’s you who’s  the bad guy

Stegosaurus movie’s one they’d’ve liked

I’ll step on, stab, or club you fuckers until you die 

Yeah yeah yeahhhh yea yeahhh

Been around for a real long time

Up from the water; out of the slime

We dominate, with our teeth and then our bones

We move in herds (they do move in herds!) under the stones 

You never know, you never know.

The fuckin bugs will get ya, and then you’ll go

(And they’re big ol fuckers)

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