Let's go somewhere, you and I!
Let's leave these pages and go to a bar
Where we can drink and forget all about this
And be terribly gay!
Why are you laughing?
A word you used
What word?
"Gay." It doesn't mean what you think
I think it does
It means something else
Homosexual, chiefly male
Gay means homosexual, chiefly male?
Yes
What word means "gay" then?
And what happens to all those lovely, cheerful, optimistic people?
I don't know if you've heard
But "gay" is a special word
It means your heart is bright
And beating loudly
Through the darkest night
You are shining proudly
"Gay" means "to resist
Everything that's crappy"
Instead if you insist
On finding what is happy
There's nothing more to say
Congratulations, you're gay!
So, feel those sweet sunny beams
Good weather's one of our themes
But also Beauty, also Truth
No fear of nudists
The joy of Youth
The zen of Buddhists
A complicated mix
Of hope and self-assurance
A useful bag of tricks
For patience and endurance
If music makes you sway
That's how to tell that you're gay
I remember New Year's Eve
In Eighteen Ninety-nine
The Nineteenth Century had been the worst!
But the Twentieth would be fine
We went up to the roof wrapped in blankets
And soon it was Twelve AM
Fireworks, balloons, a speech from the Mayor
He said that the future couldn't be any gayer!
So, long live he who is gay!
Gay gay gay gay, every day!
It means disasters hit
On a daily basis,
But he doesn't quit
And he gaily faces
The dark and stormy sky
And tells that sky to clear up!
There's no reason why
A person shouldn't cheer up
I will testify
That life's as sweet as syrup!
And I'm not going away!
Anyone's allowed to be
And so I have avowed to be
Very very proud to be
Very very gay!
I'm here, I'm full of cheer, get used to it!
