Cock It (COtu × jh0st)

Cock It
...is a 70s infused souped-up anti-gun antidote aimed directly at Ted Nugent’s hypocrisy.

Music by Church of the Undecided (COtu) – Drums, guitars, piano, sequences
Lyrics, vocals and guitars by jh0st
Mixed by Tim Johnson and COtu
Cover art by Hyein Kim

The days of the pusherman
“How long can a good thing last?”
Inspiring the straight edge rule
Turns out MacKaye was the fool

Now your pushin’ another drug
Laced with adrenaline
Cock it and take the aim

Cat Scratch heathen
Wanted: Ted or Alive
Out with a bang
Addicts in denial

Breathe in: 4/20 ’99
Pharmacy of video violence
Bullied and deviant

Talkin’ ’bout hunters’ rights
While hunting the innocent
Mass shooting the Hogg online
Massacre mind control

Gonazales you build the wall
Around this his ignorance
His hearing loss and all
no secret your cowardice
Now sit on your crystal meth

Cat Scratch heathen
More in the war room
Drafting hypocrites
Addicts in denial

So you mess with African bones
We’ll sick you with vicious ghosts
of Cecil the Lion

Cat Scratch heathen
Dare to call the fool
Say its voodoo 
4/20 walkout of…
all the schools

4/20 all the schools

 

On this 20th anniversary of the Columbine attack we need words of peace. But we also need words of resistance against public forces and figures that continue to disseminate disinformation under the guise of ‘gun rights.’

This song takes direct aim at Ted Nugent, former musician and controversial board member of the NRA. On the surface, his over-blown rhetoric seems easily dismissible in its sheer stupidity. But entangled with popular culture (yes, he wrote those awful ‘hits’ like ‘cat scratch fever’ in the 70s) his racist, anti-semitic, and violent politics continues to reach millions. Even as late as last year, he made headlines ridiculing the Parkland Shooting survivors as “mushy brained children… who have no souls.”

The music and words of Cock It are chock full of cultural references (yes, there’s even a sidelong diss of Ian Mackaye). But the vocals also channel the energy of another artist and activist Curtis Mayfield. A genius at converging melodies, irony, and social commentary, Mayfield pushed at the edges of poetry and politics to reveal the injustices of his time. I hope Cock It can also supply some grooves to your moves while shedding daylight on the festering hypocrisy of figures like Nugent…