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I wrote this song some time after I got back from our first long tour, the Cats in Heat Summer tour 2016, and some time during the very beginning of the Trump presidency. He had just started spewing his “fake news” nonsense. We visited a lot of awesome places on that tour including Galveston, TX on the Gulf of Mexico. I remember sitting on the beautiful beach there looking out at the gulf and you could see oil rigs on the horizon.

In August we adopted our first dog Pebbles and she was in the puppy stage where every piece of trash on the sidewalk ended up in her mouth and became a prized possession. When I heard this song for the first time in 3 years a few weeks ago, my new dog Banjo was in that exact same stage. Puppies are really good at reminding you how much trash is on the ground.

We played this song with the band a few times in late 2016/early 2017 and I never really liked how it came together, so we scrapped it never to be heard again….until now.

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Open up spit it out get the trash out of your mouth every time I turn around my dog is eating someone else’s garbage
and I’m sure you’re not a bad person you’re just trying to have fun with your friends drinking out of plastic cups with no regrets
yeah I’ve seen beauty and the ugliest of places
and I seen destruction caused by those with the best of intentions
when we’re all just acting out in our self interest
what is trash and what is treasure is just a matter of perception
so if the sky looks like it’s on fire it’s probably just the air pollution starting to show
and if the water looks dark and mysterious it’s probably the oil rigs leaking in the Gulf of Mexico
and as I pull that foil wrapper from my doggies mouth I remember all that glitters isn’t gold isn’t gold

open up spit it out get the trash out of your mouth every time I turn the TV on there’s someone spitting garbage and I’m sure you’re not a bad person
you’re just trying to make the world a better place for yourself for the people that pay you to speak their will
yeah I’ve seen beauty in the ugliest of faces and I’ve seen beautiful faces spewing the ugliest of hatred when we’re all just acting out in our own interest
what is fact and what is fiction is not a matter of opinion
and if one day you have children I hope they never listen to a single thing you say I hope they’re live life their own way
that they Make their own decisions and they question every single thing they see
I hope that they turn out just like me
Cause if the drug companies are poisoning us how dare you vaccinate your kids?
and if the GMO’s are poisoning us how dare we ever eat again?
The whole world is coming to an end, yeah the whole world is coming to an end
So let the games begin
the whole world is coming to an end and no one wants to talk about it, no one wants to think about global warming no
the whole world is coming to an end, but how about them Kardashians? did you see what she was wearing?
and if I could say this properly then I wouldn’t have to sing it
and if I can sing this beautifully then I wouldn’t have to scream it
but the whole world is coming to an end and no one wants to talk about it no one wants to hear me sing about it anymore

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