Tom Robinson Band - Glad To Be Gay '97 lyrics

rate me

The British Police are the best in the world

I don't believe one of these stories I've heard

'Bout them spending 3 million to bust up a ring

Of consenting leathermen doing their thing;

It might have been private, where no-one complained

But the judge put an end to their fun & their games

He sentenced the members to four or five years

I can't believe that sort of thing happened here

The liars of Wapping are really the pits

Commissioned by bigots & written by shits

They plaster their pages with bingo & tits

Then add all the scandal and slander that fits

They pick out their victims, destroying their lives

They sneer as they smear as they damn and despise

If it's paedophile teachers or lesbian nuns

If it's filth and it's fiction... it's there in The Sun

And now there's a nightmare

They blame on the gays

It's brutal and lethal and slowly invades

The medical facts are ignored or forgot

By the bigots who think

It's the judgement of God

Attacked by the Vatican, bashed by The Bill

With cheap politicians all making a kill

The message is simple and obvious, please

Just lay off the patients and let's fight the disease

For 21 years now I've fought for the right

For people to love just whoever they like

But the right-on and righteous are out for my blood

Now I live with my kid and a woman I love

Well if gay liberation means freedom for all

A label is no liberation at all

I'm here and I'm queer and I do what I do

And I'm not gonna wear... a straitjacket for you

Sing if you're glad to be gay

Sing if you're happy that way