"Here comes old high pitch in a salmon shirt,
Got purple lipstick and a low strung purse,
He’s gliding freely past your staring eyes,
It may look silly but it’s not a disguise,
In eight little words they all shout in unison,
Real men wear pink and piss sitting down,
They prance on little lillies through the town,
And it's never over,
Oh it's never over,
No it's never over,
It's not his nose pointing towards the sky,
He just wants to look you in the eyes,
His morals aren't the thing that's bent,
Just wants to know where your heart went,
In eight little words they all shout in unison,
Real men wear pink and piss sitting down,
They prance on little lillies through the town,
And it's never over,
Oh it's never over,
No it's never over,
Real men wear pink and piss sitting down,
They prance on little lillies through the town,
And it's never over,
Oh it's never over,
No it's never over,"
I was pacing back and forth on the gym bleachers one day talking with a friend about the most cursed song I can picture writing off of the top of my head. Eventually I came up with the title 'Real Men Wear Pink & Piss Sitting Down' so I ran with it. The whole thing was originally just troll bait for people swayed by toxic masculinity. It was fun to write, fun to play for years, but eventually I got sick of it. For a good little while it was the song that everyone around me was implying I should write again and again before I ended up going off the deep end into making as incomprehensible of music as I possibly could.
When I wrote it the song was about a gender-fluid male who likes to cross dress, but people can feel free and have their own interpretations. 'It's not his nose pointed towards the sky' means he doesn't have an indignant upturned nose when it comes to gender politics. He just wants to look at people in the eyes and be 'I'm me.' rather than get in arguments over it. 'His morals aren't the thing that's bent' is a gay pun. His moral compass isn't broken by having a sexual compass that steers him towards men. 'It's never over' means to me that, well, queer people always have been here and will always be here. The fight's never over for equal rights, all that jazz.