Liner NotesBasically this song is about how even if society has become more accepting of homosexuality, they want you to be a certain type of gay. They want you to know your place, to not challenge them in any way, to be a sexless sitcom gay couple like Cam and Mitchell from Modern Family. So you're allowed to be gay, but you'd better do so in a way that doesn't disrupt straight people's happy heteronormative existence. I think that's why there's been such a big move to reclaim the term "queer" in recent times - it puts the emphasis on otherness, on not conforming to some straight person's narrow, comfortable idea of what gay people are allowed to be.

So this is about that, and trying to become more comfortable with making straight people uncomfortable. The first verse shows me bending myself to fit the monolithic straight experience, and the second verse shows me trying to tear it down. One of the most euphoric experiences of my life happened at Primavera Festival a couple years ago, watching the rapper CupcakKe with a couple hundred queers screaming along to every filthy word, and the bridge quotes the lyrics to her song "Deepthroat", which I've put in italics. Anyway, it felt amazing to be surrounded by hordes of gay men shouting along to a song about sucking dick, you should try it some time, would highly recommend.

Re: challenge, hopefully I've got it right, the chorus goes down two semitones from the verse, so that's a downward modulation as far as I could understand it. But I think we all know this is probably the end of the road for me, so I'm not too upset if I've somehow gotten the wrong end of the stick with this challenge

The Lowest Bitter - The Only Way Out
bow down before the monolith
make yourself as small as can be
keep a check on your behaviours
oh boy conduct yourself invisibly
LARP a life so heteronormative
keep that shit locked in the bedroom
apologising for the fact I exist
so sorry if it upsets you

oh boy, I used to think this was the only way out
oh boy, being the good gay they were dreaming about
but no more

and I felt so alive at the CupcakKe show
in the crush of sweaty queers, shouting along to "Deepthroat"
screaming;
*"hump me, fuck me, daddy better make me choke
hump me, fuck me, my tunnel loves to deepthroat"
*

take a hammer to the monolith
make yourself as loud as can be
be on your very worst behaviour
conduct yourself with depravity
live a life outside their constructs
and wear your queerness on your sleeve
I won't apologise for anything
if that upsets you, well that's fine by me

oh boy, I used to think I had to put on an act
oh boy, I used to think there was a way I had to be
oh boy, I used to think this was the only way out
oh boy, being the good gay they were dreaming about
but no more