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"This Is Your Grandson" is the eighth #SONGO of 2023 by Catscan!

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This is your grandson calling you on the phone

This is your grandon, crying and alone

They got me locked away in jail

And now you need to pay my bail

This is your grandson, can you help me out?

This is your grandson, gonna tell you what it's all about

I know you'll surely understand

I need to borrow $14,000

This is your grandson and my car was in a crash

I had an accident and now I need your cash

This is your grandson,

Grandma please come through

This is your grandson so you know what you got to do

Just do it!

This is your doctor, with urgent news

This is the airport, we found your favorite shows

This is your neighbor, no, this is your neice

This is the daughter of your elder sister Denise

This is your family

This is your kin

Do you love your grandson?

Do you even remember him?

Expect a big comeback of this Reagan-era policy by our political leaders in 2024! Originally by the Dead Kennedys, this cover of "Kill The Poor" is the eighth #SONGO of 2023 by Catscan!

"Food Machine" is the seventh #SONGO of 2023 by Catscan!

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They'll make no food of this

They'll make no food of this

If they find you they will grind you

Making meat of the best of us

Try and feed it to the rest of us

You're the master of your mind

Soon, soon, soon, soon

You will have to make a choice

Run from everyone you see

Throw your wrench in the machine

We will shake the food machine

We will break the food machine

We will shake the food machine

We will break the food machine

they'll make no food of this

they'll make no food of this

"I Need a Gun" is the sixth #SONGO of 2023 by Catscan! It features piano playin' by Hershel Hoover.

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Had a dream, had a dream last night

Had a dream that I was cornered in a fight

Had a dream that we were persecuted

Had a dream that we were not included now

Now I'm running down the railroad tracks

All these mining jobs ain't never coming back

They're putting poison in our minds at school

My own kids are lookin' at my like a fool

I am a man

I am afraid

I need a gun

This whole country's got me feelin' so jaded

We the people isn't ever gettin' educated

Let's arm the teachers in our children's classes

And the clergy at our Sunday masses now

I am a man

I am afraid

I need a gun

"The Same Way" is the fifth #SONGO of 2023 by Catscan! thecatscanwebsite.com

It features a verse by vocalist Pete Faust of The Electric Grandmother https://www.electricgrandmother.com/

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Do you feel the same way?

I feel the same way

Do you feel the same way?

Everybody's older

All the ones we knew

The golden age is over

The golden days are through

Do you feel the same way?

I feel the same way

Do you feel the same way?

Robots write the music

All songs sound the same

YouTube making you sick

Who's the one to blame?

Do you feel the same way?

I feel the same way

Do you feel the same way?

"Back in my day!"

Is what the guys say

As we fade away

But the times we had

Were made more bad again

As we remember them

Check this out

My facing backwards got the kind of dumb

Cuz in reality I was on the run

Though I'd like to think I was having fun

My real days had the stressors on

Cuz I feel just like how the singer does

That the past just shouldn't last because

All the time spent building up til now

Was the real shit that showed you how

Do you feel the same way?

I feel the same way

Do you feel the same way?

That's the real shit that shows you how

Take him outside and punch him now

Kick him in the nards with a baking plow

Do you feel the same way?

I feel the same way

Do you feel the same way?

In the early 1980s, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS received an unlabeled cassette tape of this mysterious song which they later misattributed to Deep Blue Something (of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" fame). According to John Flansburgh: "You know, when you're in a rock band, you get a lot of interesting tapes in the mail, but this is by far the most interesting one we've ever gotten. Not really, but, it's got our name in it—it's kind of strange." For decades, this mythical song has only barely existed in the form of old fan-made bootleg recordings. Until now.

"I Might Be Giant, Too" is the fourth #SONGO of 2023 by Catscan! thecatscanwebsite.com

UPDATE JUNE 2023: The identity of the original artist of this song was discovered! Read about it on TMBW: https://tmbw.net/wiki/They_Might_Be_Giants_%28Vagabond_Joy%29?fbclid=IwAR1-yg7l0N3XNA9BYjODFTLk6hNCYfp5Dc2olR8rmmevWCReC5S-X6MRKbY

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In the days to come

See the ruins rise

While the giants sleep

In the ruined skies

Will the giants come down to earth?

And somewhere under the sun

We will find the days to come

You already kiss a broken sky

They might be giants

This world might go too far

I should be saving the tears

I need an ocean to get to you

I might be giant, too

Poor mother earth

Her pain is deep (She's going to die)

The giants know

Her heart is sweet (She's under a sky)

Who knows how long for her?

And somewhere under the sun

Now it doesn't seem so far

I'm further from your heart

They might be giants

This world might go too far

I should be saving the tears

I need an ocean to get to you

I might be giant, too

I left the light on

I turned the screws

I changed the channel, now

I can't find you

I paint by numbers

I catch disease

I want to be bigger now

So I can be free

I know, I know

They might be giants

I know, I know

What did you find

Inside the grave?

Bones lain with silence

Lost in their place

You search, I close my eyes

And hearts beat under the earth

Every echo ends a tear

You carry summer's last rose in your heart

They might be giants

This world might go too far

I should be saving the tears

I need an ocean to get to you

They might be giants

This world might go too far

I should be saving the tears

I need an ocean to get to you

They might be giants

This world might go too far

I should be saving the tears

I need an ocean to get to you

I might be giant, too

"Your Shallow Grave" is the third SONGO of 2023 by Catscan! thecatscanwebsite.com

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In the night

There's a fright

The sound of someone out there

It shakes you

You're found

Beneath the ground

No fight

Or flight

Vibrations growing stronger

He strikes hard

You cave

Your shallow grave

You won't hear him crawl up from behind

Whispering "come join us down here"

Trainquarium is the second #SONGO of 2023 by Catscan! thecatscanwebsite.com

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What's that sloshing up the track?

Yeah it's something new

Spent some cash on a full day pass

And there's one for you

You'll be swimming too

Check your zippers

And put on your flippers

Give that gauge a tap

This train's gonna melt your brain

Please mind the gap

Take a travel map

It all began with an engineer in a tub

Who asked herself what's the opposite of a sub?

A way to move our ocean cousins to land

Ten years later she finally accomplished her plan

All Aboard

Trainquarium Tranquarium

Full steam ahead

Trainquarium Trainquarium

Don't tap the glass

You're scarin' em You're scarin' em

Ecosystem collapse

Trainquarium Trainquarium

The locomotion from the ocean

Is coming through your town

Dive inside, take a ride

Just remember there's no up or down

So try not to drown

Do a dance with a coelacanth

In the twilight car

Share a meal with a moray eel

At the sand bar

Try the caviar

Our engineers have assured us everything's safe

This plexiglass is used by NASA in space

The shareholders have truly spared no expense

Our fish guy has been keeping us all in suspense

Man overboard

Trainquarium Trainquarium

Deploy the nets

Trainquarium Trainquarium

It's a shark attack

They're tearing em They're tearing em

Blood on the track

Trainquarium Trainquarium

Nemo is the first #SONGO of 2023 by Catscan!

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Saw my hand turning the knob

waving good bye

as it went out the door

Felt my leg detach from my body, now I'm

watching it fall

onto the floor

Watching it fade away

Made my kitchen into the hallway

into a runway

into the moon

I decided that matter don't matter

so I took off my self

and entered the void

Watching it fade away

So I packed up all of the planets

Folded the stars

Tucked them away

Then I took my rubber eraser

to everything else

clearing the page

Nobody nowhere and nowhen

nothing but Nemo

fading away

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