Gay Bar Lyrics
I wanna take you to a gay bar
I wanna take you to a gay bar
I wanna take you to a gay bar, gay bar, gay bar
Let's start a war, start a nuclear war
At the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar
Wow!
At the gay bar
Now tell me do ya, a do ya have any money?
I wanna spend all your money
At the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar
I've got something to put in you
I've got something to put in you
I've got something to put in you
At the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar
Wow!
You're a superstar, at the gay bar
You're a superstar, at the gay bar
Yeah! you're a superstar, at the gay bar
You're a superstar, at the gay bar
Superstar
Super, super, superstar
About
The idea for this song came up from incorrectly hearing the lyrics of DEVO’s “Girl U Want” as “it’s just a girl, it’s just a girl at a gay bar” while the song was playing in a nightclub. (The actual lyric is “She’s just the girl, she’s just the girl, the girl you want”.)
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
Dick Valentine told Songfacts:
The directors of all those videos – “Radio Ga Ga,” “Danger! High Voltage” and “Gay Bar” – were done by a team called Kuntz and Maguire. They came up with the concepts, I just showed up and did the acting. But they had read a rumor that Lincoln may have been gay or bisexual. And so that was it – they were extrapolating gayness from Abraham Lincoln based on something they read.
- 5.She’s White
- 8.Gay Bar
- 12.I’m the Bomb
- 13.Synthesizer