What's a woman going to do but throw away her bread?

Lizard Lady (The Residents)

John Wayne is the first SONGO from 2022 by the band Catscan! 

Catscan! is an electronic rock band from Washington DC. They will record and release a new song every month for an endless project called SONGO. Subscribe to the SONGO podcast, available now on all good streaming sites. And check out everything else at http://thecatscanwebsite.com

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Throw on a tight-lipped smile and nod like a man to the other man
I'm John Wayne and I don't cry
I am just a human guy

I hand you steak when you asked for a salad
I deem your menu choice invalid
I'm Marky Mark and I know food
I'm an expert human dude

I nailed the delivery I nailed the punch
And this is the part where you laugh
I am Leto and I'm no joke
I am just a human bloke

Get outta my lane when you see me in your mirror
Better not call my bluff
Like Tom Jayne without a plan
I am just a human man

I am a man
I'm a human man
I'm a broken man

Songo

John Wayne

Please Please You is the second SONGO from 2022 by the band Catscan! This song features special guest Matt Francis (Longsleeves, Taylorshit.net) on the drums.

Catscan! is an electronic rock band from Washington DC. They will record and release a new song every month for an endless project called SONGO. Subscribe to the SONGO podcast, available now on all good streaming sites. And check out everything else at thecatscanwebsite.com

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Whatever it is that will please you, I'll do it
Whatever it is, whatever it is

I'll play whatever you want me to play
Or I won't play at all
I'll go where you tell me
Or stay if you say
Whatever will please you, Paul

Whatever it is that will please you, I'll do it
Whatever it is, whatever it is

Surrounded by walruses, floating adrift
On a sour sea
We can't come together
We don't belong
In this submarine

Whatever it is that will please you, I'll do it
Whatever it is, whatever it is

Please Please You

Mark's Myth is the third SONGO from 2022 by the band Catscan!

Catscan! is an electronic rock band from Washington DC. They will record and release a new song every month for an endless project called SONGO. Subscribe to the SONGO podcast, available now on all good streaming sites. And check out everything else at thecatscanwebsite.com

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Have you heard Mark's Myth?
Everything he says is fucking bullshit
Every single day he's got a new bit
And I know that he's an idiot

But I can't believe the words that he has written down for me
And if you receive he will deceive with tricks hid up his sleeve

So that's it
That's the end of Mason on the internet
Mentally I'm tired and I just can't take it
I'm about to quit

But I can't be done if he's the one who's having all the fun
And I can't give in to men of sin who only care to win

Mark's Myth
Every cited source is illegitimate
All these guys are so completely full of it
They're mentally unfit

But I can't believe the words that he has written down for me
And it's time that we begin to see how things are gonna be

Mark's Myth

Live in Your Car is the fourth SONGO from 2022 by the band Catscan!

Catscan! is an electronic rock band from Washington DC. They will record and release a new song every month for an endless project called SONGO. Subscribe to the SONGO podcast, available now on all good streaming sites and check out all their free music at thecatscanwebsite.com

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I don't know who you think that you are, you live in your car
You make me question my point of view whenever it's new

Whenever you get near, the lights go dark in here
(I think I've seen enough)
And when you look that way, your eyes will always say
(Always giving you up)

Why don't you listen to more radio, the classical show
Then you'll be more inclined to give in, and lighted again

Whenever you get near, the lights go dark in here
(I think I've seen enough)
And when you look that way, your eyes will always say
(Always giving you up)

Give it all away

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SONGO

Live in Your Car

Jackie Weaver is the fifth #SONGO from 2022 by the band Catscan! https://thecatscanwebsite.com

Special thanks to Jackie Weaver and the whole Cheshire East crew.

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Hello again
Never thought I'd get in
Jackie Weaver

Before we start
I have some words to impart
Jackie Weaver

Can we be assured
Our concerns will be heard
Without you kicking us out?
Jackie Weaver
Jackie Weaver

Hello again
Let this meeting begin
Jackie Weaver

At our last moot
you gave me the boot
Jackie Weaver

Our charter's set in stone
The Chairman's not home
You have no authority here
Jackie Weaver
Jackie Weaver

Roger Small
You're staring at the wall
Jackie Weaver

This meeting's called
We've got a problem to solve
Jackie Weaver

Her actions are illicit
You all are complicit
The Vice Chairman is here!
Jackie Weaver
Jackie Weaver

Show some respect
Mr. Chairmen Aled
Jackie Weaver

That's a laugh
She just cut his mic off
Jackie Weaver

That was an example
An itty bitty sample
Of things here in Cheshire East
Jackie Weaver
Jackie Weaver
Jackie Weaver
Jackie Weaver

Jackie Weaver

Fool Party is the eighth #SONGO from 2022 by the band Catscan! thecatscanwebsite.com.

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All of the drinks were cool
And all of the guests were fools
Watch them shaking hands
At the Fool Party

All of the sandwiches served
For the special occasion observed
Passed on from bare hand to hand
At the Fool Party

All of us birds of a feather
Life is most certainly better
So fill our shared cup 
And raise it back up
Together

Come get your wings a bit wetter
And nevermind the weather
Eat off our plate 
And things will be great
Forever

The birdie bathwater was tainted
All of the fools have now fainted
Wash your shaking hands
They were foolhardy

Fool Party

It's OK is the ninth #SONGO of 2022!

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Would it be so hard to calibrate your lies?
That would reduce the element of surprise
I wouldn't bet upon an outcome of success
Leave behind destruction, a heaping hot mess

People say
You're in the fray
You've lost your way
But it's OK

Would it hurt you to pretend you're not so tall
Have a way about you makes me feel so small
You're free to listen to the noise I'm making now
Burn the bridges as you kill our cash cow

People say
You're in the fray
You've lost your way
But it's OK

It's OK!

It's OK

Omen

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

Nemo

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

Trainquarium

"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"

Your Shallow Grave

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

They Might Be Giants (Vagabond Joy cover)

"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?

The Same Way (feat. The Electric Grandmother)

"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

I Need A Gun

"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

Food Machine

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!

Kill The Poor (Dead Kennedys)

"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?

This Is Your Grandson

Firework (Katy Perry)

This is heavy, Doc: celebrating the actualization of Back to the Future Part II.

The Power of Love (Huey Lewis and the News)

Computer Talk (Coldplay + Kraftwerk)

It's just one of those things where you think it's okay to start a beef with me but that's a big mistake.

Your Government Name

If you are a villain, then you'd best prepare to fight. Originally by K.K. Slider.

Go K.K. Rider! (K.K. Slider)

Election Day

We're here tonight and that's enough. Originally by Paul McCartney. From Christmas Album 2 https://catscan.bandcamp.com/album/christmas-album-2

Wonderful Christmastime (Paul McCartney)

Bad Romance (Lady Gaga)

Maniac Mansion (George Sanger)

We are the core of the night, so you'll dance all night long.

Odo Yayera (Nightcore Remix)

Dracula (Gorillaz)

All songs written and recorded by Catscan! (Mason Shelby and Paul Tsiaperas). Brian Moran played drums on tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, and 16. Baritone saxophone by Madeline Billhimer on tracks 12 and 14. Kevin Kingsley co-wrote and played guitars on track 11. Live percussion recorded by Benjamin Schurr. All songs mastered by Peter Bonaventure. Album art by Catscan!

I H8 NY

When Your Pet Ghost Died

Stickup

Brian Wilson's summertime song about disappointment.

Hang On to Your Ego (Beach Boys)

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