Heard about your wife and kids where we slept
Felt their mouths with stitches at that were slowly lit
Kept your uniform this time because I couldn't quit
Haven't felt the ground so cold without getting sick

And i'm still your fag
I'm still your fag

It's a possibility to live without lips
Clinics love to fill right up with all the broken kids
I swore I drank your piss that night to see if I could live
But my wrists couldn't stand the light that we missed

And i'm still your fag
I'm still your fag

You're only coming out because you came back in
You're only coming out 'cause you came back in

I'm still your fag
I'm still your fag



Lyrics submitted by loveisaverb, edited by Tyrion88

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    My Interpretation:Like most people, I think it's about a relationship between the openly gay narrator and a man who got married and tried to live a straight life.

    But I think the context of the song is that the speaker had a fling with the guy earlier in life, AND has just now slept with him again.

    "Heard about your wife and kids where we slept"
    [Speaker learnt about the guy's wife and kids as they lay in bed after sex]
    "Felt their mouths with stitches at that were slowly lit"
    [Possibly a sympathetic reflection on the man's family who can only now understand or talk about why their father/husband was distant and strange due to his latent sexuality]
    "Kept your uniform this time because I couldn't quit"
    [Not sure, but in some schools it's a tradition that when a school year is leaving that they write messages on each other's clothing or sports teams swap shirts; the overall sense is that the speaker didn't take a memento of the guy but has probably wanted one for years as he couldn't quit thinking about him]
    "Haven't felt the ground so cold without getting sick"
    [Having had sex with a married man, possibly in the family home, the speaker is sensitive to the hallowed ground he is treading on (i.e. a wife and kids) and therefore finds the ground cold and uninviting]

    "And I'm still your fag
    I'm still your fag"
    [As previously discussed it's slightly mocking, but it also reflects that the speaker's attraction to the guy has, perhaps unfortunately, lasted all this time.]


    "It's a possibility to live without lips"
    [Lips representing truth and passion, the married man hasn't been truthful about his sexuality or able to express it]
    "Clinics love to fill right up with the broken kids"
    [The father's emotional distance made their home somewhat broken]
    "I swore I drank your piss that night to see if I could live"
    [Submitting to the married man's unpleasant fetish represents the decision whether the speaker could see a future with this repressed man as his submissive 'wife']
    "But my wrists couldn't stand the light that we missed"
    [But a relationship seems unlikely as the speaker couldn't stand the lost decades of good times, and would be entering a relationship in the dark period with a jaded man. Wrists are symbolic both in that the pulse (therefore life) is close to the surface, and that the wrists handle the day's work (reflecting emotional work to be done if this relationship were to go ahead)]

    "You're only coming out because you came back in
    You're only coming out 'cause you came back in"
    [The only reason for the married man's coming out is that he tried to deny his sexuality in the first place]

    This might seem like a very literal interpretation but it makes sense to me.
    Flag onetwothreefourfiveon April 07, 2011   Link
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    Lyric Correction:Hello.

    I think it's "Clinics love to fill right up with all the broken kids"
    Flag toastinthemachineon March 29, 2010   Link
  • 0
    Lyric Correction:Hello.

    I think it's "Clinics love to fill right up with all the broken kids"
    Flag toastinthemachineon March 29, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:a man feels as though he is responsible for a former lover coming out of the closet. he is bitter because the guy finally came out, told his wife, left his wife, but didn't seek him out for a relationship.

    he will always be his fag.
    Flag deardespoton January 18, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I think it's tongue-in-cheek, really. I think it's about a really, really close friendship in high school between two guys where most people thought they were gay lovers, although they were just completely devoted to each other as friends. After high school, they went their separate ways and eventually caught up later in life after the other had been married, ect. wishing that he had been able to see all this.

    I don't know, it's how I feel for my best friend. It's mostly the music that gives me that feeling, though.
    Flag loose_charmon October 26, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I love these lyrics because they capture the beauty of sex in love and love in sex and sex and love and want. I do think that this song is literal in its meaning (not words, if that makes sense) and I think this straight forward truth is what makes this song so naked and beautiful.
    Flag joeyjoeyon October 13, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Fag in this respect may not be the American/Canadian meaning of the term which is derogatory. It possibly means 'Fag' in the way the Brits originally used it, which was short for the practice of 'fagging' (look it up) whereby younger boys in a public school often acted as a 'servant' to older boys. This sometimes included sexual favours and sometimes abuse. This would make sense with reference to the uniform, the piss, the cold hard ground

    The man whose perspective this is from is possibly singing about the relationship he may have had with this guy at school and the sexual relationship they may have had, and possibly continue to have even though they are older.
    Flag soniktoothon September 25, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I don't think this song is just intended to speak to a gay audience. I think the lyrics are not intended to be taken literally (as is with most BSS songs, lol otherwise not many songs of theirs would make perfect sense)

    To me if anything this song perfectly describes any relationship where one person is very much in love with another, who is either uninterested or unavailable. Of course this all could apply to a relationship between a gay person and their now straight (or bi) lover, but the whole "i'm still your fag" since it uses fag, which is derogatory, gives me the perception that the singer of the song is putting them selves under the person they are in love with (no pun intended haha). It's like saying "I'm still in your power and would do anything for you".

    Maybe I just think all this because this song perfectly describes a personal situation, which is neither a homosexual one or related to someone's marriage, and I completely connect with the lyrics and song what ever the intention was in writing them (as cliche as that may sound ...)
    Flag edgetteon September 01, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:this song makes me smile. i dont know why. i just think its amazing how BSS can write a song called "im still your fag" and make it work. im a straight man and i enjoy the fuck out of it.
    Flag darkglobe2008on July 16, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:OK, so for anyone who cares, I think Ohad Benchetrit (Hidden Cameras) wrote this song, which makes sense because of the beautiful sax bridge.
    Flag 10000staringfaceson June 27, 2008   Link

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