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Collusion (EP)

by Sunhouse Branch

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1.
Trumplestiltskin 03:16
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Trumplestiltskin by Cody Weathers Trumplestiltskin let the swamp in Trumplestiltskin thieving goblin Keep the left hand clean Get the right hand dirty The emperor has no clothes The emperor has no conscience The emperor sold you out The emperor is a conman The emperor is a traitor The emperor is a liar The emperor is a rapist The emperor is on fire CH Say his name, say his name The red hat sees no evil The red hat hears no evil The red hat speaks no evil The red hat knows no evil The emperor has no qualms The emperor has no mission The emperor fans the flames The emperor tortures children The emperor burns a cross The emperor wears a hood The emperor beats us down The emperor is no good The emperor sees the storm The emperor knows to hide The emperor knows the cure The emperor knows to lie The emperor has the plague The emperor won't be true The emperor may not die The emperor could kill you
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Above It All 05:11
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Above It All by Cody Weathers You realize you're above it all You have no side to take There's power there, a clarity You have no choice to make Option A, option B All algebra, no stakes You ruminate on both sides' flaws As gently your head shakes CH: Up above it all The vastness is empty Down far below me The world can't be seen And with the battle growing fierce From on high, you descend To bless us with your wise reproach Convince us of your zen "Your groups are prisons," you begin "Turn off the damn TV For both sides have some blame to bear Don't follow --be like me" It doesn't seem to change their minds Perhaps their minds are small Hitler, Churchill --both are bad So just don't vote at all (CH)
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Sham Rock 02:08
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Sham Rock by Cat Mayhugh and Cody Weathers Here in the Land of the Lecher-con. There are no pots of gold left, To drape your dreams on. Here in the Land of the Lilliputian hands, Your promises are meaningless, And Liars make demands Here in desert At my line in the sand A tower of fools Keeps us safe from the wind Here in the cage Is the sad little boy Forget him, a whisper Don't write down his story Rusher, rusher, A scurrying pack of dogs Keep the left hand clean Get the right hand dirty Keep the left hand clean Get the right hand filthy
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Fool Stooge 04:14
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Fool Stooge by Cody Weathers What about this, what about that? What about not changing the subject What about this, what about that? What about conceding the obvious? At some point you're so gaslit You burst right into flames This is a list of true things he has done: Family Separation Children in Cages Forced Hysterectomies Knew COVID was deadly and airborne, but downplayed it Politicized mask wearing when it could've saved us Called it the flu Slowed down testing Held maskless rallies Pulled out of WHO promoted bogus medicines he held investments in Denial of Lawful Asylum Russian Influence Ukrainian Extortion Sought and accepted foreign assistance in the election Bribery of a witness Obstruction of Justice Retaliation against witnesses Campaign Finance Violations Emolument Violations Self-dealing Ceding Foreign Policy Interests Indebted to Turkey, Russia, UAE, Israel, Saudi Arabia Circumventing Posse Comitatus Helped cover Jamal Kashoogi's murder Refusing adequate aid to Puerto Rico Suppressing Speech Suppressing Assembly Courting White Supremacists Allowing Russian bounties Gassing peaceful protestors Gutting Environmental Protections Left Paris Accord Lining the pockets of the 1% Manipulating DOJ Interfering with Investigations Dismantling Obamacare during a pandemic Causing the biggest economic disruption since the Great Depression 30 million unemployed Sabotaged Postal Service Suppressed the vote Told 10000 lies If you hear that list and question its truth You haven't been paying attention Because you should have heard each of these by now And if you had a doubt, You should've addressed it before If you hear that list and want to refute it Then you are a gullible fool Because the only sources that are saying the opposite Are obvious liars, whose facts don't add up You shouldn't pretend anymore If you hear that list and want to ignore it Then you are a loyalist stooge Because you have been bought by some tangential issue Abortion or judges or taxes persuade you You should be ashamed of yourself But if you hear that list and think those are good things Then you are the worst one Because that list is evil, to love it is vile You're part of the problem We shouldn't be friends any more
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Sickophant 07:09
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Sickophant by Cat Mayhugh and Cody Weathers Hear my mighty, mindless bellow, It was a beautiful, perfect, piece of cake! Three toadies on a morning news show, Tell you that the meat was fake. CH I’m right, you’re wrong, now repeat that or get out The power of the Congress is the power of the purse And the pursestring writes the laws I know the moneymen They forgive me for my flaws Deny, attack, just feign the facts Reverse victim and offender No matter what you do Don't own it or surrender Downplay it, flip it Own the libs Keep dipshits fed With dipshit vids Revise the lies, deny, deny And practice misdirection Calm them down, then rile them up In witless insurrection Push their buttons, pull their strings Make them love my wicked things A billion-dollar penthouse A fox for every henhouse My sickophants assure what's best They vote against their own interests I'll say the words, but they'll never hear the facts I'll do the deeds, but they'll never know the acts You shield me good, my foxy little fox Like stepping stones, we move from shock to shock I'm on the record, but the record doesn't count I shouldn't be here, as the bodies start to mount Somehow the race is close, and true to form I've got my sickophants to keep me warm
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Prince of Thieves (Graven) 03:31
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Prince of Thieves (Graven) by Cat Mayhugh and Cody Weathers The hex inscribed said cross the line And suffer all my worst I'm pretty sure the Prince of Thieves Was laughing at the curse While filling his purse And drowning his thirst The coin is pain, the blood made rain The innocent will hurt The kleptocrat, faux diplomat Stole everybody's shirt But nobody heard Or uttered a word The Prince of Thieves, these graven leaves Torn piecemeal from the book The shield was cracked, the deck was stacked The victim on the hook Commanded to look At all that he took The wildcat howls, your soul befouled Your road with headstones paved The chariot, cruel, false and met By barefoot, naked slaves Whipped into their graves The thief is a knave Graven image, broken on the ground This is what the wildcat howls Your hoard is stained, your soul befouled You're coming to the end, you Prince of Thieves An empty chamber, no one there to grieve Graven image, broken on the ground
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A Perfect Phony 04:28
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A Perfect Phony by Cat Mayhugh and Cody Weathers Storm after storm, am I crazy, Or is getting warm in here? We want a no-ban on the plastic straw-polls, And more coal and gas for the ice-poles And I see again the forest fires are starting And I said, you've got to clean your floors There are many years of leaves and broken trees They're like, so flammable You touch them and it goes up I moved on her like a bitch I did try and fuck her Everyone I rape is presidential DOJ will handle it I don't pay taxes or I'd handle it myself Maybe we're just going to have to make California pay for it Because they don't listen to us $54 million for A favor, for policies favorable To Russia, Russia, Russia That's not bribery And more Russia if you're listening A billion dollars Puppet?! I'm the dealmaker Forest fire, yellow haze A billion trees, we're planting a billion trees, And it's very exciting But we have to do better management of our forests Every year I get the call, "California's burning" If that was cleaned, if you had forest management... You know in Europe, they live there in forest cities, They're called forest cities Not orange shitties I was with the head of a --major-- country It's a forest city He said, "sir, we have trees that are far more... They ignite much easier than California There shouldn't be that problem." Don't look now The smoke is coming in Greenland, oh Greenland, I'm a-comin' to get you Puerto Rico for sale She can't take one more gale Repeal protections, EPA Rake your forests, not my fault Climate nihilist, Chinese hoaxsters Goddamn windmills murdering birds Stupid Greta, just a girl Paris shmaris, fuck the world I speak the truth the idiots know If there's global warming, why'd it snow? Here alligator, here alligator Crocodile, I'll suck you later

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Seven songs of political protest

These songs were constructed constructed in an impromptu, semi-improvised manner, with minimal foreknowledge of the collaborative lyrics and minimal --if any-- revision or planning, using found loops, pre-constructed percussion, etc. coupled with improvised layers atop those initial simple kernels.

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released October 25, 2020

Cat Mayhugh: lyrics, concepts
Cody Weathers: lyrics, music, all voices and instruments, production, concepts

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Cody Weathers Portland, Oregon

Multi-instrumental scat-singing acoustic-rock fool-for-hire. Card-carrying nerd since 1989. Not afraid of hyphens. Super powers include: [deleted for reasons of national security].

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