Rejoyce

Jefferson Airplane

(Note: these lyrics are based on hearings of the song, and differ from those on the original lyric sheet for the album, which are incorrect in several places. Where two readings seem just as likely, the second follows in parentheses. Bloom, Molly, Stephen, and Boylan are all characters from the James Joyce novel Ulysses.)



Chemical change

You shock the morning

Animal eyes (Amber light)

Wake me warm

Let me see you

Moving everything over

Smiling in my room, you know

You'll be inside of my mind soon...



There are so many of you

White shirt and tie, white shirt and tie, white shirt and tie, wedding ring, wedding ring-



Mulligan stew for Bloom

The only Jew in the room

Saxon-sick on the holy dregs++

And he's constant getting throw-up on his legs

Molly's gone to blazes

Boylan's crotch amazes

Any woman whose husband sleeps

With his head all buried down at the foot of his bed...++



I've got his arm...

I've got his arm...

(I've had it for weeks...)

I've got his arm...

Stephen'll give his arm

To the goats on Mother's farm

War's good business so give your son*

And I've gotta have my country die for me...



There are so many of you

Sell your mother for a fishing line, grow up looking like a swine, There are...

All you want to do is live, all you want to do is live (give) but somehow

It all

Faalls

A p a r t...



++holy dregs...foot of his bed: Joyce experts say this refers to Leopold Bloom's love of cunnilingus.

*give your son: version of a contemporary (1967) antiwar bumper sticker: "War is good business: invest your son."