Zone Defense - A Song About Continents

[slow echoing start] [Catchy Hook] We do not say zone enough. [build] [arpeggio] [syncopated bass] [build] [drop] an eight planets and five dwarfs situation [build] [Catchy Hook] Zone. [drop] [chorus] [Passionate Female Singer] The Continents are the tectonic plates the sole system that recapitulates once the data is scrapped and new measures are tapped if the results get changed then your method is flat Sev-er-al new small continents and sunken ones more than a few Yeah, Aotearoa's a contine-e-ent and the carribean is too! [Catchy Hook] fish don't exist [funky breakdown] zone [drop] [stern male scientist] [spoken word sample] "Wait." I hear you ask in a vague, sad fumbling at peer review. "What about Europe?" Henceforth, such arbitrary regions will be known as zones. We do not say zone enough. [bridge] [sudden sample hit] eight planets, five dwarfs [break] [hook] Zone. [chorus] [Passionate Female Singer] The Continents are the tectonic plates the sole system that recapitulates once the data is scrapped and new measures are tapped if the results get changed then your method is flat [bridge] [sudden sample hit] [break] [drop] [stern male scientist] [spoken word sample] "Wait." I hear you ask in a vague, sad fumbling at peer review. "What about Europe?" Henceforth, such arbitrary regions will be known as zones. We do not say zone enough. [hook] Zone. [chorus] [Passionate Female Singer] The Continents are the tectonic plates the sole system that recapitulates once the data is scrapped and new measures are tappedthe if the results get changed then your method is flat [bridge] [sudden sample hit] [break] Say It Zone. [tempo change] [solo] [stern male scientist] [spoken word sample] I want you to imagine the economic boon. New editions of Trivial Pursuit. A revitalized game show industry. Whole new fields of unexplored pedantry-based party small-talk. Tourism. Imagine, how much better it would be, after a long, tiring oceanic flight, if the attendant came over the speaker and said [bell ring] [Passionate Female Singer] You're now entering the European Zone [stern male scientist] [spoken word sample] Feels like the future, right? [Catchy Hook] [arpeggio] [syncopated bass] [build] [stern male scientist] [spoken word sample] I want you to imagine the economic boon... New editions of Trivial Pursuit... A revitalized game show industry... Whole new fields of unexplored pedantry-based party small-talk.... Tourism. [pause] Imagine how much better it would be, after a long, tiring oceanic flight, if the attendant came over the speaker and said... [bell ring] [Passionate Female Singer] You're now entering the European Zone [stern male scientist] [spoken word sample] Feels like the future, right? [build] [build] [drop] [break] [silence] [stern male scientist] Tourism. [pause] Imagine how much better it would be, after a long, tiring oceanic flight, if the attendant came over the speaker and said... [bell ring] [Passionate Female Singer] You're now entering the European Zone [stern male scientist] [spoken word sample] Feels like the future, right? [build] [build] [drop] [break] [silence] [build] [arpeggio] [drop] [rapid Sprechgesang] North and South America plus the Carribean makes three. Panama, the Eurasian, Somali, Philippine Sea and the Agean's scattered bits Juan Fernandez, small and wet both words Easter also fits Indian, Arabian Antarctic, Easter, Scotia the Indo-Australian African, Juan de fuca so don't forget the cocos Those are the plates before ya and while the pacific's there we might call it Aotearoa [synth solo] you're in the zone (zone) you're in the zone (zone) you're in the zone (zone) [chorus] [Passionate Female Singer] Sev-er-al new small continents and sunken ones more than a few Yeah, Aotearoa's a contine-e-ent and the carribean is too! [bridge] Oh yeah, yeah yeah, it's an eight planets and five dwarfs situation [stern male scientist] [spoken word sample] You're now entering the European Zone You're now entering the European You're now entering You're now You're now The Zone Feels Good Feels Right Say it [build] .. ... .. .. ... ... [drop] There's no such thing as a fish. [big finish] [outro] [end] [chorus] [Passionate Female Singer] Sev-er-al new small continents and sunken ones more than a few Yeah, Aotearoa's a contine-e-ent and the carribean is too! [bridge] Oh yeah, yeah yeah, it's an eight planets and five dwarfs situation [stern male scientist] [spoken word sample] You're now entering the European Zone You're now entering the European You're now entering You're now You're now The Zone Feels Good Feels Right Say it [build] .. ... .. .. ... ... [drop] There's no such thing as a fish. [big finish] [outro] [end] [reprise] [narrator, spoken word sample] ... There's no such thing as a fish. [big finish] [outro] [end] end