lyrics are definitely wrong at the top. Capture uniform???? how about kept your uniform

J_P is definitely right. this song is so gay. thats kinda the point lovedrug

I think the line "I swore I drank your piss that night to see if I could live" could refer to when someone is starving in a desert and has no water, and they can ward off dehydration by drinking their urine. So the relationship was a way to keep from dying.

"Felt their mouths with stitches at that were slowly lit" doesn't make grammatical sense. Does someone have a different guess as to what this line is?

i really doubt that the "drink your piss that night..." line is in relation to a desert at all, i think it's about watersports. (look it up if you're unfamiliar)

i think the 'it's a possibility to live without lips' part is in relation to the now married/straight man's lack of any type of physical relation with his former lover. lips are used for kissing. when you have nothing like that in your life, it is possible to live without them.

(great song/album/blah blah i'm sure you already know)

It's clearly about a man who was in love with another man, who happened to be bisexual. That Bisexual man got married, had kids, and that what the man who was in love with him found out.

He's still in love with him "I'm still your fag", But it can never be again, because the other man has a life.

Or... So i believe

It's hard to assert the absolute meaning of a BSS song, since their lyrics are largely expressionist, and, by extension, open to interpretation.

"A poem should not mean, but be." - Archibald Macleish

Here's what I got off this song:

Heard about your wife and kids where we slept
Felt their mouths with stitches at that were slowly lit

- The use of parataxis here makes the first two lines difficult to interpret. That said, the song seems to begin with a homosexual addressing someone whom he's slept with. The intonation of "Heard about your wife and kids where we slept", suggests that the speaker is surprised, or disillusioned, at the thought of the man he's had intercourse with having a family.

"Felt their mouths with stitches at that were slowly lit" is a continuance of the speaker's lamentation, and appears to be directed at the "wife and kids" in the aforementioned. And while it's hard to say exactly what this line means, perhaps it's referring to how the homosexuality of the man the speaker slept with is becoming increasingly obvious to his family, i.e. their mouths were filled with "stitches", but are beginning to loosen. Consider one of the definitions of "lit" in the dictionary: "the state of being visible, exposed to view, or revealed to public notice or knowledge; limelight."

Notable, too, is the appearance of the word "light" in the second verse, which is similar in meaning to "lit". In this context, the "light that we missed" could be referring to the speaker's lover's family, whom he misses in spite of their apprehensiveness.

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Kept your uniform this time because I couldn't quit
Haven't felt the ground so cold without getting sick

- In the third line of the first verse, the speaker suggests that he kept his lover's uniform "this time because I couldn't quit"; an obscure statement. What it may be in reference too, however, is how the speaker's love changed his attire when they were together. In this sense, he's withheld his "uniform"; the clothes his lover wears when he's free to express himself, because he wants to be reminded of him (it's conceivable that role-playing factors into this, too).

"Haven't felt the ground so cold without getting sick" is a fairly implicit line: it means that the speaker has hit rock-bottom, likely because of the plight his lover has had to undergo with his family, and (in light of the last line), because he won't see him any longer.

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

- The chorus is fairly self-evident. The speaker is always his lover's "fag", i.e. homosexual partner, regardless of what happens.

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It's a possibility to live without lips
Clinic love to fill right up with the broken kids

- When the speaker states that it's "a possibility to live without lips" he appears to be mourning the discreteness with which he and his lover, a married man, have had to conduct their affair.

"Clinic love to fill right up with the broken kids" is a line which utilizes wordplay: "clinic love" probably means "clinical love", i.e. love which has to be gone about systemically because the true nature of it cannot be divulged. But the speaker plays off the word "clinic", suggesting that their "clinic love" could be filled with "broken kids." Implied by this, too, is the idea that by not being able to express his honest sexuality the speaker's lover is crippling himself.

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I swore I drank your piss that night to see if I could live

- In possibly the song's pivotal line, the speaker addresses his lover in saying that "I swore I drank your piss that night to see if I could live." And while one could speculate endlessly about the connotations of this, it may be a veiled Christ reference: "The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin." In this sense, the speaker may be commenting on the martyrdom his partner has had to undergo on the basis of his sexuality, and how he attempted to find some sort of transcendence from his suffering by mixing bodily fluids.

The line may be dealing with the idea of true love, too: the speaker's only salvation was through his lover, a married man, whom he was in love with. By engaging in intercourse, the speaker found in him the will to live.

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But my wrists couldn't stand the light that we missed

- But, in spite of the ecstasy of the time spent together, the speaker must parts ways with his lover because of the "light that we missed". For the speaker, that light is probably the practicality of having a "real" partner, i.e. a homosexual who is fully contented with his way of life. For the speaker's lover, that "light" may be his family, whom he would presumably be endeared to. As mentioned before, there is an interesting parallel between the word "lit" in the first verse and the word "light" here.

The speaker seems to use the word "wrists" synonymously with "me" or "life". However, there is a fatalist bent to this usage: inside, the speaker is suffering as badly from the withdrawal of his lover as his lover is suffering from self-suppression.

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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

- The song's ending could be construed as a twist: the speaker's lover is "coming out". What exactly "coming out" means is suspect; it could be referring to how (in the present tense) the speaker's lover came out to the speaker, how he's coming out to himself, or how he's coming out to society at large. One thing is for sure, though: that the speaker's lover is only "coming out" because he "came back in", i.e. searched within himself to find who he truly was.

The video tells a story of a high school love with a football player. As if the jock call him "fag" in front of his friends and in public, but inside has a love for him. He can't show his feelings around anyone so hides it by gay bashing.

this is a graphic post but so is this song, in either case be forewarned. "it's a possibility to live without lips" is a reference to not needing a woman's vaginal lips in my opinion. the broken kids being semen spilled during masturbation sounds spot on.

OK, so for anyone who cares, I think Ohad Benchetrit (Hidden Cameras) wrote this song, which makes sense because of the beautiful sax bridge.

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.

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 ...)

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.

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.

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.

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.