the bruce suite

well

every day at the salon you can see him arrive

he stood six foot six

he weighed one-o-five

he's kinda narrow at the shoulders and narrow in the hips

with a curl in his hair and a smile on his lips

that's bruce

no one seemed to know where bruce came from

he kinda swished into town and stayed all alone

never said much

kind o' quiet and shy

and when he spoke at all

it was just to say: 'hi'

big bruce

then came the day o' that terrible fire

something went wrong in the number five dryer

into the fire with a squeal and a shout

we waited an hour

but he never came out

poor bruce

where that salon once stood is a grocery store

but his name will live for evermore

in the annals of time and in the hall of fame

as a gay young cat who went down in flames

poor bruce

i'm just a straight in a gay

gay

gay world

i'm carryin' the banner tryin' to keep the flag unfurled

well

i'm just a straight in a gay

gay

gay place

i might look a little odd but i'm part of the human race

well

i'm just a straight in a gay

gay

gay world

might look a little butch but my hair is naturally curled

don't wear no floral shirts or white

buckled shoes

no blow jobs or blow waves

i do just what i choose

and if i'm forty-seven and i've never been married

that's just a load that's gotta be carried

even if i had my eyebrows plucked

that don't mean i'm hangin' round just to get

just 'cause he's happy don't mean that he's gay

all his friends seem to take him quite the wrong way

there ain't many of us still left alive

all my friends have gone over to the other side

i'm just straight in a gay

gay

gay world

i'm just straight in a gay

gay

gay world

i'm carryin' the banner tryin' to keep the flag unfurled

i'm just straight in a gay

gay

gay place

i might look a little odd but i'm part of the human race

i'm just a straight in a gay

gay

gay world

might look a little butch but my hair is naturally curled

don't wear no floral shirts or white

buckled shoes

no blow jobs or blow waves

i do just what i choose

and if i'm forty-seven and i've never been married

that's just a load that's gotta be carried

even if i had my eyebrows plucked

that don't mean i'm hangin' round just to get

just 'cause he's happy don't mean that he's gay

all his friends seem to take him quite the wrong way

there ain't many of us still left alive

all my friends have gone over to the other side

i'm just straight in a gay

gay

gay world

i'm carryin' the banner tryin' to keep the flag unfurled

i'm just straight in a gay

gay

gay time

and a straight in a gay world is getting hard to find

i'm normal

yes i'm normal

i'm normal as anybody can be

i'm normal

yes i'm normal

there's no one as normal as me

i've had my share of orgys

young marrieds and gay swingers

had too many weirdos

wet nurses and girl singers

seen me enough blue movies to last me a lifetime through

and i'm getting pretty desperate for something new to do

so i'm throwing out my rubber sheets and kinky knee high boots

going back to holding hands

that's where i got my roots

throwin' out my dildos and porno magazines

goin' back to wholesome sex just like it's in my teens

'cause i'm normal

yes i'm normal

normal as anybody can be

i'm normal

yes i'm normal

there's no one as normal as me

no one ever just says: 'hi' - or talk about the weather

they all ask me if i'm bi and into whips and leather

there's just too many massage girls doin' it for free

and i get that funny feeling

someone's usin' me

so i'm throwin' out my spanish fly

all that vitamin e

swallowed enough stupid pills to start a factory

yes

i'm givin' it all up

i'm going back to zero

getting just too tired of being a pornographic hero

i'm normal

yes i'm normal

normal as anybody can be

i'm normal

yes i'm normal

there's no one as normal as me

is everybody there normal?