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blow away - ann magnuson lyrics

[spoken]
cut to: 1996
when we first performed this medley
350,000 aids deaths later
jobriath was just one of them

but before he died in 1983
he suffered one last humiliation
as he slipped further into obscurity
and ended up like most of us
singing standards
in a shabby cabaret

so shamed was he
that he changed his name again
to cole berlin
and took requests from the other forgotten souls who surrounded him
in the dingy piano bar

[sung]

[verse 1]
o how the strings retch
and how the h*rns moan
thеy play out all the tears i’m not allowed
to cry
but i havе to cry
to stay alive…
to stay alive
[verse 2]
and all the pretty boys
lay in the passage
of every song that etched it’s way from out
my bleeding heart
but i have to bleed
to be free…
to be free

blow blow blow away [x4]

it’s very gay
to blow away (blow blow away)
to blow away (blow blow away)
to blow away (blow blow awa*yay)

[spoken]
now a very good friend of ours
mr. lance loud
heard that jobriath was playing
in one of those old people barfly bars
up in a hotel in midtown manhattan
and sitting on his piano was a fishbowl
that you could drop in requests with your tips
so lance wrote down: “heartbeat”
and wrapped it in a fiverr and dropped it in
then
after singing a little gershwin
jobriath
i*i mean
cole berlin
reached into the fishbowl
and pulled out that paper
and with a face devoid of expression
he read lance’s request (blow away)
then he crumpled up the paper (blow away)
threw it to the ground
and leaning towards the mic (oooh)
he muttered (oooh)
through his beard (ooh*ooh*oooh)
i don’t do my own material (echo)

oh…
that’s so sad
and i’m not being ironic here
or sarcastic or postmodern
and this is not a parody
okay? it’s…
truly tragic
because i don’t think there’s anything worse for an artist
than to lose faith in themselves

- ann magnuson lyrics

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