The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
I love fags
because I am a san franciscan
if you're dissing on my homos
then this censure's what you're risking
(I'm insisting on containing my temper but listen up):
you shouldn't ought to be intolerant about who queers like to fuck!
fags are great, they've got hundreds of uses
you can see them on TV explaining what puce is
abstruse is the world but very simple is the homo
he or she is anyone who's keen to do another one more so
than the opposite, follow?
fags are great 'cause almost every single one swallows
or so I'm led to believe, lesbians also I've heard of,
not to mention non-gender-identified spivaks seeking nerd love,
and I've spurned just about everything there is
cause I was born here, and here's where I live
here i give you this advice, love a fag today
either up close and personally, or from far away
see fags are gay, and gay's a good adjective
it means like happy and high, but you had to just
shy me away from the topic of my fag-love
something maybe that you're lacking in? don't get mad just
cause you don't have such a big heart as frontalot
you could love fags too, you already think dykes are hot
why not come on down to the street fair,
(there's) asses in chaps plus rough trade to meet there,
some of whom been barebacking it in back alleys for years
yo I promise if you visit you could meet some queers
and if you love even just one, hooray
if you don't, well I hope you enjoyed your stay
and I hope you go on your merry way
with the chorus of my song slowly turning you gay
and you don't love fags, this much is apparent
you're having nightmares about them every time you get your hair cut
you stare what you suspect could be a queer man
in the eye, in the mirror, enzymes coming out your fear gland
he's got scissors near your eardrums
you might lose your hearing you don't watch it with these queer ones
and here comes your presidential cheerleader now
so disturbed by the marriages in my home town
that he's got to take the tip top law in the land down
scribble on it: "I hate homos, big bad frown."
put it back up, be like "what? it's better!
y'all were with me a second ago
when I said that marriage was threatened
and it was! under siege by these villains
can you believe they wanted to gang up and have children?
there would be an army of them, teeming and thronging
tempting every American to give in to forbidden longing
i thought they couldn't reproduce, that was their weakness!
now what are we gonna do? they're gonna seek just
treatment under the law, dammit that's like saying
it's okay to be gay! or a lesbian! hey man,
you can not say that. society would crumble and fall apart."
i'll think about that on the BART
gladdening every inch of the ride
to be on the way to the where I reside
not just a place where I keep my stuff
but the spot got plenty of the kind of person that I love
because I am a san franciscan
if you're dissing on my homos
then this censure's what you're risking
(I'm insisting on containing my temper but listen up):
you shouldn't ought to be intolerant about who queers like to fuck!
fags are great, they've got hundreds of uses
you can see them on TV explaining what puce is
abstruse is the world but very simple is the homo
he or she is anyone who's keen to do another one more so
than the opposite, follow?
fags are great 'cause almost every single one swallows
or so I'm led to believe, lesbians also I've heard of,
not to mention non-gender-identified spivaks seeking nerd love,
and I've spurned just about everything there is
cause I was born here, and here's where I live
here i give you this advice, love a fag today
either up close and personally, or from far away
see fags are gay, and gay's a good adjective
it means like happy and high, but you had to just
shy me away from the topic of my fag-love
something maybe that you're lacking in? don't get mad just
cause you don't have such a big heart as frontalot
you could love fags too, you already think dykes are hot
why not come on down to the street fair,
(there's) asses in chaps plus rough trade to meet there,
some of whom been barebacking it in back alleys for years
yo I promise if you visit you could meet some queers
and if you love even just one, hooray
if you don't, well I hope you enjoyed your stay
and I hope you go on your merry way
with the chorus of my song slowly turning you gay
and you don't love fags, this much is apparent
you're having nightmares about them every time you get your hair cut
you stare what you suspect could be a queer man
in the eye, in the mirror, enzymes coming out your fear gland
he's got scissors near your eardrums
you might lose your hearing you don't watch it with these queer ones
and here comes your presidential cheerleader now
so disturbed by the marriages in my home town
that he's got to take the tip top law in the land down
scribble on it: "I hate homos, big bad frown."
put it back up, be like "what? it's better!
y'all were with me a second ago
when I said that marriage was threatened
and it was! under siege by these villains
can you believe they wanted to gang up and have children?
there would be an army of them, teeming and thronging
tempting every American to give in to forbidden longing
i thought they couldn't reproduce, that was their weakness!
now what are we gonna do? they're gonna seek just
treatment under the law, dammit that's like saying
it's okay to be gay! or a lesbian! hey man,
you can not say that. society would crumble and fall apart."
i'll think about that on the BART
gladdening every inch of the ride
to be on the way to the where I reside
not just a place where I keep my stuff
but the spot got plenty of the kind of person that I love
Lyrics submitted by phobos258
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