Opening Arguments Rush Cover Songs

One of the best podcasts out there is Opening Arguments featuring Andrew Torrez and Thomas Smith. They explore legal stories that affect us all with thoughtfulness and levity. To that humorous end, Andrew has implied Rush isn't exactly his favorite band, alas it is mine, so I've taken the challenge to mash up a couple songs to honor Andrew and Thomas, and just perhaps bring them over into the "Rush is awesome" camp. 

(And, yes Thomas, a few of their older songs have an Ayn Rand spin to them, but so many of their songs incorporate science-minded, humanistic values...from Closer to the Heart to Red Tide to High Water to Faithless to Dreamline)

Optimus Sawyer

A modern-day lawyer-er

Mean, mean stride

Optimus Sawyer

Mean, mean elide

Though his points are relevant

Don't put him down as reverent

His reserve, a quiet defense

Debating the day's events

And Muller...

What you say about his amĭcus, brief

Is what you say about liberty

Catch the jist

Catch the just

Catch the judiciary

Catch the judge

The Law is, the Law is

Truth and life are deep

Maybe as his eyes are wide

Optimus Sawyer, he gets high on you

And the court he invades, he argues for you

No, his points are relevant

To the Constitution and government

Always hopeful, yet discontent

He knows changes aren't permanent

Stare decisis!

And what you say about his amēcus brief

Is what…

The Spirit of Clownhorn

Begin the day

With a friendly curse

An expletive, unobtrusive

Play that clownhorn that's so effusive

And the clownhorn music makes the morning mood

Off on your frackin' way

Hit the freakin' road

There is clownhorn on your fingers

And the spittle ever lingers

Unrelenting god-smack

In your clownhorn solitude

Aweful airwaves

Cursing with life

Angry exclamations bristle

With the energy

Emotional outburst

On a clownhorn wavelength

Bearing a vile word at any price

Almost never clean

All this obscenity

Making clownhorn music

Can still be open-farted

Not so clownhorn thwarted

It's really just a question

Of your profanity, yeah, your profanity

One likes to believe

In the clownhorn of clownhorn

But clownhorning clownhorns

And clownhorn clownhorns

Create the impression

Of decency,…