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Goddamned
competition
As a little seasonal
treat for our readers, we are giving away a
copy of Jay Brannan’s
excellent album Goddamned. All you
need to do to enter is send us an
email with the word Competition in the
subject line. The closing date for entry is
31 January 2010. The winner will be notified
by email.
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Jay Brannan:
voice of an angel, eye of a poet
Enter the goddamned competition and
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Jay Brannan
is a singer-songwriter and actor who was
born in Texas, USA, in 1982. Brannan played
Seth
in John Cameron Mitchell’s
2006 film
Shortbus
and his song
“Soda
Shop”
was featured prominently in the film’s
soundtrack.
He continued to build his fan base by
recording music videos for YouTube, playing
songs with guitar, and, through MySpace and
Blogspot, built up an international fan base
without corporate sponsorship.
In 2007, he appeared in another movie,
Holding Trevor, playing the
promiscuous best friend of the film’s
protagonist.
The same
year as Shortbus, he
released a limited-edition four-song EP –
disasterpiece (also listed as
Unmastered) –
featuring
“Soda
Shop”,
amending it with two additional songs for a
second edition of disasterpiece in
2008. Later that year, he finally released
the full-length album, Goddamned
and, in 2009, a further album, In Living
Cover, which reached number ten on the
Billboard Top Heatseekers chart for
the week of 25 July 2009.
Stylistically, Brannan has been likened to
hard-to-classify artists like Ani DeFranco,
Lisa Loeb, Sinéad O’Connor
and Liz Phair, and often sounds very like a
male version of Joni Mitchell.
Brannan, who describes his family as
conservative Baptists, went to college for
one semester in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA,
before travelling to California with a man
he met on the Internet, trying to become an
actor. During this period, he took on other
various jobs, including as a proofreader, to
support himself.
See Jay Brannan’s
alternative biography on his
official website.
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Goddamned
©Jay
Brannan
I’m marching to Zion
A camera in my hand
I hear people cryin’
Dyin’ for this blood-stained land
The streets of old Jerusalem
Are lined with souvenirs and those
buying them
It sounds cold, but I cannot see
How this theme park has shaped
history
Cause virgins don’t have babies
And water isn’t wine
And there’s a holy spirit maybe
But she would never rent a room with
walls built by mankind
Mary and Mohammed
Are screaming through the clouds
For you to lay your goddamned arms
down
Rip your bigot roots up from the
earth and salt the goddamned ground
Stand in line patiently
To supercharge your rosary
Or stuff your prayers inside this
wall
We once had god trapped in this
great hall
But we’ve been cast out from this
place
They say a prophet floated from here
to outer space
Am I crazy? maybe it’s me
But this all sounds like mythology
Cause virgins don’t have babies
And water isn’t wine
And there’s a holy spirit maybe
But she would never rent a room with
walls built by mankind
Mary and Mohammed
Are screaming through the clouds
For you to lay your goddamned arms
down
Rip your bigot roots up from the
earth and salt the goddamned ground
Zeus was afraid of his girlfriend
So he swallowed her in bed
Then he bore forth Athena
When they cracked open his head
Her brother tried to rape her
Athena got away
And when his seed hit the ground
The grass gave birth that day
Now we all freely admit
This story’s clearly bullshit
No one would lay down their life
Or start a war for it
So throw your stones and pray
You’ll be rewarded someday
I hope it all goes your way
But something tells me
No one’s coming to save you
No one’s coming to save you
No one’s coming to save you
Save yourselves
From turning earth into hell
No one’s coming to save you
No one’s coming to save you
No one’s coming to save you
No one’s coming to save you
Mary and Mohammed
Are screaming through the clouds
For you to lay your goddamned arms
down
Rip your bigot roots up from the
earth and salt the goddamned ground
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