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PLASTIC BLUES - words by A. B. Chittick, music by Nate Butler
I'm so enthusiastic over reinforced plastic
That nothin' seems to matter anymore
I don't care 'bout my conduct, just this groovy man-made product that is now evrything from tennis shorts to doors

I committed misdemeanor over a brand-new vacuum cleaner
'Cause the lady upstairs didn't like the noise
She was always made and fumin', 'cause I'm always rug vacuumin',
So I put gunpowder in her Viceroys
Then I'm hauled downtown by police-station boys

I told them 'bout my fad, about this stuff that's really bad,
But the dummies didn't seem to comprehend
And they weren't enthusiastic over reinforced plastic; they just locked me up for five years, maybe ten
Told me never, never, never to speak of plastic stuff again
Whoah no

I'm sittin' in my cell, thinking life had gone to hell
When the table almost made me want to scream
It was solid-structured plastic, and I thought, oh, that's fantastic
I can live inside my little plastic dream ...
Also likewisely constructed were the sheets that I abducted from the bed for my escape rope down the wall
Then I kissed this institution adios to their solution
I didn't give a rip about their ways at all, I didn't give a rip about their ways at all, bye-bye

Well, I never could get sore-eyed watching polyvinyl-chloride, though I know that it's a really risky thing
But who cares if it's explosive, cancer-causing and corrosive?
i just want it to surround and go ding!
Well I hope you can conceive it that those who disbelieve it must be quadraplegic, impotent, or blind
And I know that I'm prophetic, because that which is synthetic will eventually replace all of mankind
That which is synthetic will replace mankind
That which is synthetic will replace mankind
That which is synthetic will replace mankind
That which is synthetic will replace mankind
That which is synthetic will replace mankind ... and I don't mind ...
It's been a long time coming, and a long time getting underway ...

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from Strawberry Pumpkin Apocrypha (1988​-​89), released August 2, 2014
Nate Butler: lead vocal, piano
Ron E. Woods: drums kit
Mark Ribera: tenor saxophone, backing vocals at end
Sean Mahoney: backing vocals at end

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Nate Butler Fresno, California

Nate Butler is an artist, actor, musician, and singer/songwriter from Fresno, California, USA.

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