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letra de back in the day - ann magnuson

[spoken]
back in the day
long before the internet
i went over to the library
to excavate clues from that era
and i nearly went blind looking for hours
at all the back issues of rolling stone
stored on microfiche
(does anyone remember microfiche???)

i looked in vain for his dismissive revews
but even his dismissive reviews were dismissed
and
that’s the worst kind of dismissiveness of all

i know i saw that first ad in rolling stone
bеcause i bought the debut album
i had to ordеr it from budget tapes and records
in charleston west virginia
back when i was a baby glam rock hillbilly hippie
cuz
anything that smacked of bowie was for me
(yee-haw!)

and then years later
christian reminded me about an article
where the headline was a quote from jobriath saying
bowie pretends to be gay. i am a true fairy
(a fairy? a fairy?)
(a beautiful sensitive magical fairy?)
(a fairy!)
(oooh! i love the fairies!)
(oooh-oh-oh the fairies!)
yeah we don’t serve f-gs in here, buddy!
[broken glass sound effect]

oh…
he was just too far out
and out
for his time

still
jobriath was being pushed to do more and more sp-ce stuff
and
they all flew out to la to tape the midnight special, which
turned out to be a big embarassment
and…

(oh, christ, this medley is longer than jobriath’s career…)
[drums: ba-dum-tss]

anyhoo
the story goes that on the plane back
jobriath fell asleep on his hand
and when they landed in new york
well you know
you know how when you sleep on your hand
it gets all tingley and…
and paralyzed-like and
and then…
he tried to move it and
and it
wouldn’t move
and
and
and he couldn’t play
and that ended the whole thing
now whether he was really crippled
or just crippled inside
no one knows
but it was over
and jobriath suffered some kind of nervous breakdown
and
and then he disappeared
into oblivion

- ann magnuson

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