A Special Word ft. Eric Price & Brandon Uranowitz Lyrics

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!