Name: Kill The Poor (Dead Kennedys) by Catscan!
Duration: 3 min 27 s
Description: 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!

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

Songo

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

Catscan! is an electronic rock band from Washington DC. We 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.

Kill The Poor (Dead Kennedys)

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