The Misbelieves

2003 – Touch You Natalie Jane

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Robyn Hitchcock invented the internet in September, 1994. That’s when I joined the fegmaniax mailing list, a group where people who are interested in Robyn’s music can discuss other people who are interested in Robyn’s music (and sometimes even the music itself). It’s a cliche to say that “fegs are the nicest people”, and I consider many of them to be friends in every sense of the word, if you leave aside the fact that we’ve never actually met. “Touch You Natalie Jane” was written for a project showcasing original music by fegs, and the lyrics concern the sometimes uneasy boundaries between online and real-world relationships. Those boundaries became blurred beyond all meaning, five years later, when the song’s namesake died in the real world. Click here for song origins, downloads, and lyrics.

Click the image above for a 3-track playlist that includes “FYNJ” (a remix) and “Fuck You Natalie Jane”, a rough mix of the abandoned original NSFW version of the song, available here for the first time.

In The Money

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Recorded on Music Street and © 2009 Music Street Music

No one ever asks So nobody knows what the girl with the sign out is selling And she isn’t telling She picks up a plate And serves up a tribute to something she hates and wouldn’t live without Then we’re on our way, to a play, we’re off to a play She might as well have a gun to her head As she slowly gets out of the car I’ve never seen anything like it before It’s like suddenly her misery isn’t funny anymore And we’re not in the money anymore The stage is a mess (What a dump, such a hell of a mess) The heroine trips on the hem of the dress she is wearing I’m past caring And he gets a laugh (What a joke, it’s a laugh and a half) With a throwaway line about his bitter, better half as she stumbles off And out of the way, in a play, we’re in a play She might as well have a knife to her throat As she tells me that I’ve been unfair I’ve never heard anything like it before It’s like suddenly her misery isn’t funny anymore And we’re not in the money anymore

Shattered and Blue

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Chainsaw Sally sends a guy to the Afterlife® and guess what? He finds it preferable to the during-life. I don’t know anything about horror movies but former Next Window drummer JimmyO does: he makes them. Chainsaw Sally is a character created by April Monique Burril and JimmyO. Shattered and Blue is a song by The Misbelieves.
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Recorded on Music Street and © 2009 Music Street Music

I remember that meatbag blood and bone factory Tightening around my soul Skin swamp bubbling sweat soaked pillory Desperate to keep control Oh it’s such a thrill To feel incorporeal Do I miss that pain wracked sad sack simpering Utterly bereft of charm With a heap of broken junk under each arm Not now that Chainsaw Sally left me shattered in the alley Chainsaw Sally left me shattered in the alley Chainsaw Sally left me shattered in the alley and blue I got nothing left to carry Chainsaw Sally left me shattered in the alley Chainsaw Sally left me shattered in the alley Chainsaw Sally left me shattered in the alley and blue Such a sweet, sweet thing I used to lie awake counting my breath out loud at night Praying I don’t run out I could hear each cell of my substance whispering Plans to sell me out I was so afraid To lose the mess I’d made I cut off my nose my legs my hands And my friends to spite my face With the cast of “Touched By An Angel” to give me grace But now that Chainsaw Sally left me shattered in the alley Chainsaw Sally left me shattered in the alley Chainsaw Sally left me shattered in the alley and blue I got no reason to worry Chainsaw Sally left me shattered in the alley Chainsaw Sally left me shattered in the alley Chainsaw Sally left me shattered in the alley and blue Such a sweet, sweet thing

Perfect Sun

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Recorded on Music Street and © 2009 Music Street Music

I saw the brilliant green flash In the depths of the ‘80s When things could have gone either way The world crackled with energy While I tried to appear to be Brooding and restless and cunning First I buried a man it was not time to bury Then carried a weight I was not fit to carry I fought with him more than I’d fought him alive Now all of a sudden I’m sunning It’s a clear blue sky I’m such a lucky guy Could you stand any more sun? It shines a perfect beam Down on my routine I think I found the perfect sun It reflects off a boy on the verge of forgetting He has the whole world by the tail He can still name his monsters in roughly the order That they were first met and defeated. When a man selling Jesus spits hate at his brother He knows one of these things is not like the other He’s cracked the strong magic that got him this far He knows love was all that he needed

The Misbelieves record classic theme song

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As anybody within spitting distance of a telegraph or carrier pigeon knows, Bonnington Truce is on the move after decades dormant. The Misbelieves have honored the occasion by recording a loving recreation of the theme song to Bonnington Truce’s long-lost and lamented Saturday morning TV show, “Come On Now Kids Yeah It’s Bonnington Truce!”
Download: MP3 (6.5 MB) FLAC (24 MB) (try right-click “save as” if left-click doesn’t work for you)
Archeology: The first voice in the song is Earl Lundy’s, wondering why nobody was dancing during Next Window’s set at the Avanti Theatre in Hattiesburg, March 5th, 1982. The sampled “Yeah”s throughout the song are Earl, Patrick Wallace, and Ben Young during Chariot Choogle later the same night.
Accuracy: Jeff is, in fact, the leader of the band.

This is for Adam Ford and all of our kids.

Come On Now Kids Yeah It’s Bonnington Truce I hope we get the band to play Come On Now Kids Yeah It’s Bonnington Truce From all the years and miles away And Ben is the leader of the band Earl is the leader of the band Patrick is the leader of the band But Jeff and Hugh are just like you They’re not the leader of the band Come On Now Kids Yeah It’s Bonnington Truce I wonder if they’re back to stay Come On Now Kids Yeah It’s Bonnington Truce After all the years and miles away And Patrick is the leader of the band Earl is the leader of the band Ben is the leader of the band But Jeff and Hugh are just like you They’re not the leader of the band In the days before the Truce was signed And silence shrouded Hattie’s Gulch The children never laughed or sang And darkness spread like kudzu mulch A shot was fired in Vicksburg that Reverberated round the state And echoed in the heads of restless Kids who would refuse to wait We gathered at the commune To await the band’s decision Would they choose a life of infamy Bold threats and cold derision Brave O’Neil Bridges Wallace Young And the madcap Earl of Bonnington Did smile upon what they’d begun And gladly shared with everyone Come On Now Kids Yeah It’s Bonnington Truce I hope we get the band to play Come On Now Kids Yeah It’s Bonnington Truce After all the bars the battle scars The roads and years and miles away

Wrockin’ the reckage of the mighty 8th Ward!

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This is the official site for one of the Upper 8th Ward’s most misunderstood rock bands, The Misbelieves. Here you will find news and downloads for future Misbelieves releases, as well as a selection of recordings from earlier Misbelieves-related bands, including Next Window, Bicycle Thieves, Popsicle Thieves, Icicle Thieves, Tricycle Thieves, Pineapple Thieves, and David Bowie®.
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Peace + love, from Music Street, Gentilly Terrace, 8th Ward.