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The Learning Curve

by ManOrMouse?

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1.
Superman 01:15
Superman has the benefit Of flying away when he fancies it Maybe you weren't aware of it Until he'd gone So let it go, let it go Let him get away And maybe he will come back some day To turn the tide and let you in
2.
Jackson 03:46
In the playground, boy so skinny Says his mother slept with Elvis And she hasn't been the same Since the poor man died In his satchel lives an angel By the name of Saint Theresa And a tangerine smile that he wears outside He never laughs, he never cries Jackson is a loser Jackson is a tool Jackson is a jackass Like me and you In the backroom he was everybody's nobody Farrah slacks, crazy shoes, Smelled of sandwiches on Tuesdays And danced like a scorpion in a ring of fire Tragic mix of fat lips, orange whips, epileptic fits In the bible it says that God is the right thing Man is the bad thing Jesus Christ the go between Do unto others as you'd do to yourself But the truth is, school's a hard place to lose And Jackson knew he was doomed But he never flinched He never lied Jackson is a loser Jackson is a tool Jackson is a jackass, like me and you Sunshine
3.
Alive (free) 02:39
Somebody once told you Your head is full of monsters You trust them at your peril The best that you can do is to run away As fast as you can go It doesn't matter what you've been thinking It doesn't matter what you've been going through I know You're just keeping the dead alive Keeping the dead alive Villains used to tell me I'll never amount to nothing I'll only end up hurting myself I can't predict the future and anyway What the hell am I trying to prove? It doesn't matter what you've been feeling It doesn't matter what you've been going through I know We're just keeping the dead alive Keeping the dead alive Nobody believes you Those monsters are so beautiful You trust them 'cause you need them The only thing to do is to run to them Just as fast as you can go
4.
She Rules 02:42
She's got blood on her platforms She's got mud on her face She puts the heat in where the sun don't shine She's turning sugar daddies sour She's got a chip on her shoulder She's got a samurai sword She's gonna cut you like a superhero She's gonna take on the whole world She rules Rules my world She takes me out to a Japanese movie Ai No Korida and Korrida knows me Wears her hair tied up like Princess Leia And a see-through Biba blouse from '73 And driving back to her mansion She puts her foot through the floor She's on a mission from an alien nation She's fighting intergalactic war She rules Rules my world She is elusive, she is skill She lives by the rules of kill or be killed And I am with her coast to coast Like the long shadow of a ghost She rules Rules my world
5.
Waterfalls 04:10
It was like I had been Four thousand rounds with a guilty Messiah Taking it out on me It was like I could feel Nothing but crystals of bitterness Filling the space where I knew that my heart should have been It was like seeing gold Winking from cold and dangerous waters And I'd lost the will to swim And it was like I was slipping down waterfalls It was like I was plunging down waterfalls Before it happened to me It was such a strange sound It was the brave beating of the drum By a manchild wracked with doubt and disease It was so loud Like the ear-thrashing metal glory of Yngwie J Malmsteen Busting kidneys with his terrible ease It was like a new day The sun came out and the clouds disappeared As I drifted down that beautiful breaze Straight into your loving arms And it was like I was drinking from waterfalls It was like I was guzzling down waterfalls It was like I was deafened by waterfalls When it happened to me
6.
It's a crying shame we feel the same You know I'd do anything to make it easier for you 'Cause there's no one to blame It's just the way that it crumbles Cookies in the desert heat, we took a tumble Now there's nothing to show but dust Tractors in the yard eaten up by rust Bring on September Rains Bring on September Rains Fall on my hands again Flush the sorrow from her beautiful face There's nothing so sad, nothing so hard Nothing like sliding back down the learning curve There's a weather man crying on TV Hasn't been a summer this dry in living memory The farmers are beat, the harvest is lost They're selling up and moving out but what a cost When you've done all that you possibly can To let it all go to another man Bring on September Rains Bring on September Rains Fall on my hands again Flush the sorrow from this beautiful place There's nothing so sad, nothing so hard Nothing like sliding back down the learning curve
7.
(Instrumental)
8.
Do Or Die 03:49
Evidently you are not alone With the voices in your head keeping you company Evidently you're the heir to a throne In a kingdom somewhere West of insanity We do or we die Take our places on the ladder up to the stars But the harder we try The clearer that we see Man was never Meant to live on Mars Evidently you've been taking a chance But dancing with the devil Only gets you into trouble with security You take your number when they send you down The dumbest mother in the whole damn penitentiary We do or we die Take our places on the ladder up to the stars But the harder we try The clearer that we see Man was never Meant to live on Mars Evidently you've got nothing at all But that's the way you like it Watch the comeback kid Drag himself up off the floor This is godless holy war We do or we die Take our places on the ladder up to the stars But the harder we try The clearer that we see Man was never Meant to live on Mars
9.
Ethel was a creature who could out-run any man She was a credit to her own company She sent out all the wrong messages She lit the camp fires, burned the bridges And shot herself at the battle of wounded knee Thursdays she would peak outside the curtain, Look around and say hello to some young man Just to keep on hurting Ethel was a creature 'bout as lovely as can be Ethel was an island in the sea Maud the magic mermaid she got tired of getting stoned In a luckless dive down in the depths of Tennessee She saddled up her pickup truck She spent the night with the local buck And in the morning headed out towards the sea On the way she stopped to give a lift to some poor girl Who tried to smile Even while the tears rolled down her cheeks Maud the magic mermaid's going to dry out in the sun Ethel might as well come along They talk about boys, boys, boys, boys, boys Ethel starts to thinking That Maud should keep on drinking 'Cause she's the wisest sounding woman in the world So she climbs into the backseat She says, 'I'm glad we met,' and falls asleep Driving through the desert night Maud swings into a purple light That emanates from deep in Ethel's breast A dinghy floating on the tide A mother singing to her child A lullaby so soft it'd break your heart And on the road a passer by Would swear he didn't believe his eyes A glowing pick-up racing through the sky Maud the magic mermaid's going to dry out in the sun Ethel might as well come along Maud the magic mermaid's going to dry out in the sun Ethel might as well come along Come along now
10.
If you have a point of view Kindly share it with the class I’ve been spinning in circles Hoping to find my way through this long grass If you’ve got the time to kill I could murder an hour, a second, a moment Anything to release me, To despatch me from this endless night Time stands still Time stands still When I think about you It makes me sadder still You’ve got the magic touch my friend Can you make me disappear? Then bring me back as plastic flowers Watch how the faces lift When you pluck me from thin air There’s damage in your eyes, my friend I can see we’ll get along I want to be your punch-bag I want to be anything to anyone Time stands still Time stands still When I think about you It makes me sadder still Time stands still Time stands still When I think about you It makes me sadder still What the eyes do not see The body cannot feel While the eyes still believe The body cannot heal
11.
Mahalia 03:53
It's 22 left turns to her door She's barricaded all of the short cuts She doesn't want to play any more Pulling bad magicians out of rabbit holes Mahalia Mahalia And out of the sun comes a dead-eyed dick To play her with his bow and arrow Too much candy's going to make a girl sick Now she's reading fortunes in a traveling show Mahalia Mahalia Oh, what am I going to do? What am I going to do? Mahalia
12.
Lost Myself 04:14
We don't even fight anymore It's keeping me up at night You used to pull a gun up to my head And why d'you wear that old night gown? What have you got to hide? All the light has vanished from your eyes Oo oo oo, I lost myself Oo oo oo Oo oo oo, don't blame yourself anymore What's the point of being wrong When somebody else takes the blame? And where d'you learn to punish me so well? Oo oo oo, I lost myself Oo oo oo Oo oo oo, don't blame yourself anymore I lost myself I lost myself

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released March 6, 2010

all tracks written by Billy Mowbray
produced by Billy Mowbray and Matt Sime
recorded at Mouse Manor and Crypt Studios, London
drums: Jonathan Atkinson, Mark Richardson
bass: Ricky Barber
loud guitars: Dean Tidey
everything else: Billy Mowbray

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