you know now the faggots' self-esteem
we make up for so much pride in little parades

i never forgot it, confusing as it was: self-love disregards gender
the middle-man feigns his self-love cuz he can't
be true to his state

we all had our reasons to be queer, we all had esteem to prove we earned
we all needed men to be true to, not our selves

i sang like madoooona as a child
while professing male i.d. like the self-assured men
i covered my debtor-type mind with such gay fibs,
fake pride made me well and it's
name gave such a hotter look, prepped me like i was not
sad, shunned or viewed unblessed, and

we all had our reasons to be queer, we all had esteem to prove we earned
we all needed justification, so we kids

what i learned i rejected and now i ridicule,
i suffer with not a friend of gay or'entation
if i'm humping a "real" man, will i be forgiven?

we all had our reasons to be queer, we all had esteem to prove we earned
we all needed men to be true to, so we bid

masculine delusions in our heads,
gay pride shapes our minds and votes for us
we had to believe in something, so we did

we all had our reasons to be queer,
we all had esteeeeyeeeeeeeyeeeeeem to prove
we all needed justification, so we bid

so we did
so we kids