Wild Sex (In the Working Class) Lyrics

Lyric discussion by granola brink 

Cover art for Wild Sex (In the Working Class) lyrics by Oingo Boingo

why is it a GAS after five?

If something is really fun, you might say it's "a gas". It's a colloquialism that always confused me. So after five, he gets to have a lot of fun. That's basically it.

"Gas": slang meaning "something exciting or excellent" first attested 1953, from earlier hepster slang gasser in the same sense (1944). Gas also meant "fun, a joke" in Anglo-Irish and was used so by Joyce (1914).