Jobriath: complete lyrics to 1st album Jobriath (1973)

Take Me I'm Yours
I'd do anything for you or to you
I'm a fool for you dear fantasy
I would love you to use me, amuse me
I'm chained to your insanity
Any day you could buy me or tie me up
A slave to your perversity
Refuse me diffuse me
To the corners of the galaxy

Take me I'm yours
Take me take me I'm yours
Take me I'm yours
Take me I'm yours

Baby you just amaze me and daze me
You're the blind spot in my consciousness
C'mon and forsake me and break me
And drink the blood of my obsessiveness
Make me cry out and die out
Of love for this world's fallacy
Refuse me diffuse me
To the corners of the galaxy
Take it out on me baby, I'm ready
For your troubles I'm expedient
You're the master, c'mon faster
To your nature I'm obedient
Take your torch and burn me and turn me over
And over in your dreams of Godliness
And if you think of me ever, just remember
I did it all for your eternal rest

Be Still
Do you have to show up on every corner
Won't the dancin' begin without you
Do you have to put on your eyes for me
Be still I love you
Now be still

We walked through space in the twilight hours
But did you really see the starset
In your restless eyes I found the city lights
Be still I love you
Now be still

Be still I love you
Be still I love you
Be still I love you
I still love you now be still

I know the child that I am has hurt you
And I was a woman when I made you cry
But a little boy wants to dry your tears
Be still I love you
Come on now

Be still I love you
Be still I love you
Be still I love you
I still love you now be still
I still love you
Come on now be still

World Without End
O my brothers
Please may I remind you
Not by way of warning
Nor to sermonize you
That we've all been here before
'Cause warnings and sermons
Live in tract houses
And shop at supermarkets
In their Sears and Roebuck blouses
Please excuse the metaphor
But just let me tell you
What now has come to pass
The revelations of year one
Have turned around at last
They're gonna get us as before
T'ain't nothin' new in store

Here we go around again
World without end amen

Slay the Christians, burn the witches
Persecute the Jews
Sit back and watch a revolution
On the late night news
It's like reviving vintage films
Hurt your lovers, enslave your brothers
Laugh at the saints and fools
Remember how the king of kings
Rode humbly on a mule
If you don't then get your seat
The show's about to repeat

Here we go around again
World without end amen

Space Clown
You're so entertaining and amusing
And God knows everybody loves a clown
Boredom wails you can't refuse him
O Pierrot where do you go when you come down
A star shot across the sky and smiled
Then vanished in a tear

Ah you're a space clown
When you laugh you bring the house down
When you smile you bring the walls down
You're a space clown
'Cause when you cry
When you cry you bring the sky down

Earthling
Earthling
I love the way that you walk
Earthling
I love the way that you walk
With your three little legs draggin' on the ground
Now when you walk
The people talk

Earthling
I love the way that you prance
Earthling
I love the way that you prance
With your two little feet inches off the ground
O you're so advanced
You can even dance

I guess I forgot
Been 7000 years since I could walk that way
C'mon show me how to play
Yea I must 'a forgot
Now I have to know what makes you move the way you do
I wanna examine you

Earthling
I love the way that you talk
Earthling
I love the way that you talk
With just one little mouth you could blow up the world
Now when you talk
The people walk
Yea I guess I forgot
Now I have to know what makes you move the way you do
I wanna examine you

C'mere Earthling
Let me take you aboard for awhile
Let me just have a look
I wanna examine you
Now I put you here
I just wanna see how you're doin'
C'mon now pull 'em down and let me see
Cough. Stick out your tongue and say, "Ah."
Say what's a nice little being like you doin' on a dump like this?

Movie Queen
I've always wanted a movie queen
To call my very own
That bright and shining star
I've worshipped from afar
Came to earth to be with me tonight

I've always wanted a superstar
To cherish as my own
But so high in the sky
I never dared to try
To take the steps that I can take with you tonight

With you at my side Ginger Rogers up and cried
Busby Berkely ate his heart out over you
With you on my arm Betty Grable lost her charm
And Florin Ziegfeld follies looked like Brooklyn Zoo

I've always wanted a movie queen
To call my very own
And here I am
So starry eyed with you tonight

I'maman
I maman
So I'm an elegant man
I'm a man
Clara bowes and open toes
Are what I am

Yes I maman
Yea I'm a fragile man
I'm a man
Light of step and soft of touch
A gentle man

You know I could love you
But if I should love you
Then I would love you
The way a man loves a woman
And live my life like been livin' it
My body claims my mind and soul so let me be
What I am
An elegant man

Yes I maman
So I'm a graceful man
I'm a man
Pierrots and spaceous clothes
Are what I am

You know I could love you
But if I should love you
Then I would love you
The way a man loves a woman
And live my life like been livin' it
My body claims my mind and soul so let me be
What I am
An elegant man

Yes I maman and I could love you

Inside
Outside of my window
The rain's fallin' down
It's fallin' so close its chill is near yet far
Away

And the splash of the busy wheels
The thunder of the mourning
Fade to silence in a distant dream that carried me
Away

Outside
The little yellow raincoats running in the rain
Beckon, how they beckon with their sweet refrain
Their gentle laughter
Outside
Those fools that don't know 'nough to come in out of the rain
Would you know they would if they could just remain
Inside
Inside with someone like you

Outside
Poor fools that don't know 'nough to come in out of the rain
Would they know they would if they could just remain
Inside
Inside with someone like you

Morning Starship
Who was that sneaking up the stairs
Taking a hairpin from her hair
A vision of the locks fallin' down
Crossed my mind and played with the sound
Of tapping gentle tapping at my morning starship

The crystal glint of the turning glass
The creaking sound of the rusted latch
As she slowly opened the door
The darkness told me nothing more
Except, except that she was near my morning starship

She stood within the threshold silently
A ray of moonlight caught her eye
Without a word she said, "Could I come in?"
I said why not you're in already
You might as well stay awhile

She made her way across the room
A ray of moonlight caught her eye
The perfect head framed in silver blue
Found its way to mine and then I knew
The girl the girl the girl had flown my morning starship

She's gone away what can I do
She took the key she's got the clue
Mysteries unfold with the latch
What she knows I'll never forget
The girl the girl the girl has flown my morning starship
She's travelled with me now in my morning starship

Rock Of Ages
So what if a-wop-bop-a loo-bam boom didn't rhyme
Billy Haley and the Comets drove me to the prom in time
A Little Richard goes a long long way
More than twenty long years to this day
Rock of ages roll away rock away roll away

We were dancin' in the streets and shapin' our lives in school
When we were simply thirteen, God saved the queen in Liverpool
A mop top mersey goes a long long way
More than ten long years to this day
Rock of ages roll away rock away roll away

Three plays for a quarter is ancient history now
But the Stones roll away and rock that juke box till
Satisfaction goes a long long way
Much more than five long years to this day
Rock of ages roll away rock away roll away
A Little Richard goes a long long way
More than twenty long years to this day
Rock of ages roll away rock away roll away

Blow Away (A Peaen For P.I.T.)
Artist:

O how the strings retch
And how the horns moan
They play out all the tears I'm not allowed to cry
But I have to cry to stay alive
To stay alive

And all the pretty boys
Lay in the passage
Of every song that etched its way from out my bleeding heart
But I have to bleed to be freed
To be freed

Models:

Blow blow blow away
Blow blow blow away
Blow blow blow away
Blow blow blow away
It's very gay to blow away
To blow away
To blow away

Artist and Models:

Now rest your guilty bones
No need to suffer anymore
The dirt tossed on your grave will blow away
This very day
I'll blow it away
This very day

Blow blow blow away
Blow blow blow away

I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow their house down
I'll blow blow blow away. Blow blow blow away
In a space suit made of Mary Quant I'll blow away
I will. Get your drag and let's go, forget Joe
Let's blow, forget Joe, blow away
Bye bye blow away
Tata blow away
I'll write blow away

Too da loo blow away
Bye yie blow away
Tata blow away. Bye bye