Born This Way (Song) Lyrics

[Matt]

On Thursday 27th January 2011, @ladygaga said:

BORN THIS WAY
WRITTEN BY: LADY GAGA
PRODUCED BY: LADY GAGA, FERNANDO GARIBAY, DJ WHITE SHADOW
MIXED AND ENGINEERED BY: DAVID RUSSEL



INTRO:
It doesn't matter if you love him, or capital H-I-M
Just put your paws up
'cause you were Born This Way, Baby

VERSE:
MY MAMA TOLD ME WHEN I WAS YOUNG
WE ARE ALL BORN SUPERSTARS

SHE ROLLED MY HAIR AND PUT MY LIPSTICK ON
IN THE GLASS OF HER BOUDOIR

"THERE'S NOTHIN WRONG WITH LOVIN WHO YOU ARE"
SHE SAID, "'CAUSE HE MADE YOU PERFECT, BABE"

"SO HOLD YOUR HEAD UP GIRL AND YOU'LL GO FAR,
LISTEN TO ME WHEN I SAY"


CHORUS:
I'M BEAUTIFUL IN MY WAY
'CAUSE GOD MAKES NO MISTAKES
I'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK BABY
I WAS BORN THIS WAY

DON'T HIDE YOURSELF IN REGRET
JUST LOVE YOURSELF AND YOU'RE SET
I'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK BABY
I WAS BORN THIS WAY

POST-CHORUS:
OOO THERE AIN'T NO OTHER WAY
BABY I WAS BORN THIS WAY
BABY I WAS BORN THIS WAY
OOO THERE AIN'T NO OTHER WAY
BABY I WAS BORN-
I'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK BABY
I WAS BORN THIS WAY

DON'T BE A DRAG -JUST BE A QUEEN
DON'T BE A DRAG -JUST BE A QUEEN
DON'T BE A DRAG -JUST BE A QUEEN
DON'T BE!

VERSE:
GIVE YOURSELF PRUDENCE
AND LOVE YOUR FRIENDS
SUBWAY KID, REJOICE YOUR TRUTH

IN THE RELIGION OF THE INSECURE
I MUST BE MYSELF, RESPECT MY YOUTH

A DIFFERENT LOVER IS NOT A SIN
BELIEVE CAPITAL H-I-M (HEY HEY HEY)
I LOVE MY LIFE I LOVE THIS RECORD AND
MI AMORE VOLE FE YAH (LOVE NEEDS FAITH)

REPEAT CHORUS + POST-CHORUS

BRIDGE:

DON'T BE A DRAG, JUST BE A QUEEN
WHETHER YOU'RE BROKE OR EVERGREEN
YOU'RE BLACK, WHITE, BEIGE, CHOLA DESCENT
YOU'RE LEBANESE, YOU'RE ORIENT
WHETHER LIFE'S DISABILITIES
LEFT YOU OUTCAST, BULLIED, OR TEASED
REJOICE AND LOVE YOURSELF TODAY
'CAUSE BABY YOU WERE BORN THIS WAY

NO MATTER GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BI,
LESBIAN, TRANSGENDERED LIFE
I'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK BABY
I WAS BORN TO SURVIVE
NO MATTER BLACK, WHITE OR BEIGE
CHOLA OR ORIENT MADE
I'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK BABY
I WAS BORN TO BE BRAVE

REPEAT CHORUS


OUTRO/REFRAIN:

I WAS BORN THIS WAY HEY!
I WAS BORN THIS WAY HEY!
I'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK BABY
I WAS BORN THIS WAY HEY!

I WAS BORN THIS WAY HEY!
I WAS BORN THIS WAY HEY!
I'M ON THE RIGHT TRACK BABY
I WAS BORN THIS WAY HEY!

Source: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/8e8bt7

[Matt]

Interesting that the song was produced by FERNANDO GARIBAY. He produced Dance In The Dark, which is my favourite Lady Gaga song! Cannot wait to hear the single!

[JTill]

I love it. :music: :love: :cry:

[Matt]

I love it. :music: :love: :cry:

I know!!!! :*(

I can't wait to hear this!

[Matt]

But lol @ some of the lines.

Subway kid rejoice kinda made me lol. All-in-all though great lyrics and great message!

[QueenGodga]

They are cheesy but all her lyrics are like that.
I love that it's produced by Garibay.
Dance in the Dark:love:

[Dice]

omg such cringeworthy lyrics.

don't be a drag, just be a queen? lmao i cannot.

BUT i know the actual song will be so good, it'll make me forget these cheesy atrocious lines. :o

[scarlet knight]

I can't even with GaGa. The lyrics are not feeding my soul like I expected them to. It's too basic.

[Skye]

T4P...I like the lyrics for the most part. There is no beating around the bush, she's letting you know exactly what she feels. Of course these type of songs tend to have a dose of cheese to them but some people find that cheese inspirational. *ahem*

Very cool of her to tweet the lyrics. Yet now I am pondering how the song will sound- is it a ballad or mid-tempo? The VMA sound-bite indicated that the song was leaning towards a ballad but would Gaga & Co make such a risky move to kick off an era by releasing a ballad? Not so sure. Elton compared it to Gloria Gaynor's 'I Will Survive' :tellmemore: *sigh*

Whatever the case, I'm pretty excited about what's to come. We got the lyrics so now it all about the production and vocal delivery. :summer:

[Charlon P.]

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[SweetGal]

I think the lyrics are too obvious and cheesy. I would have liked it if the message of the song had been delivered in a more subtle and clever way.

[leftphalange]

I agree with SweetGal, the lyrics are too obvious and cheesy. However, you could say the same about telephone and just dance which both have terrible lyrics if just written out and read aloud so I have faith that the actual song will be better. The fact that the guy who did DITD is producing gives me a lot of hope lol. Thats my favourite GaGa song.

[Kevinasturm]

yeah.. she should have been slick with her lyrics.. not 'IF YOUR GAY, BI, TRANSGENDERED, IT'S OKAY.. IF YOUR A CHOLA, IT'S OKAY... IF YOUR BLACK, IT'S OKAY...'

Bitch, we've been okay since Beautiful.. we just now needed something that'd give us more confidence. =/

Man.. I was expecting to get goosebumps reading the lyrics.

[Skye]

I know many love to compare but if 'Born This Way' is anything like Beautiful, I will be highly disappointed. Bleh!

[Skye]

Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' Leads New Era Of Outcast Anthems
Taking cues from Frank Zappa, the Ramones and Nirvana, Gaga carries the torch for the outsider in pop music.



In the 1970s, when disco was in full swing and rock and roll was posturing its way into arenas, four goony, glue-sniffing kids in Forest Hills, Queens, threw on leather jackets and began bashing out two-minute tunes with titles like "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "Beat on the Brat." They called themselves the Ramones, and not only were they probably the first punk band on planet Earth, but they were most definitely outcasts, in every sense of the world.

Of course, the Ramones certainly weren't the first musical outcasts. Theirs is a legacy that reaches all the way back to the dawn of recorded music, from the likes of the Hoosier Hot Shots and Slim Galliard, scatting madman Cab Calloway and the "shocking" Screamin' Jay Hawkins, to midcentury curios like bizarro bandleader Spike Jones, deep-fried '60s oddballs like Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart and even contemporaries like the Cramps and the Talking Heads. But unlike any who came before them, the Ramones helped usher in an era — and a genre — in which being odd was championed. It would continue through the 1980s, thanks to the Heads, West Coast punk acts like Black Flag and the Minutemen, and college-radio darlings like R.E.M. — and, of course, the eternally outcast world of heavy metal — then truly break through in the '90s, with the chart-topping success of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and the Smashing Pumpkins, and the rise of hip-hop outfits like the Wu-Tang Clan, the Pharcyde and the incomparable Kool Keith.

Of course, in the 2000s, things sort of petered out. Rock and hip hop became increasingly lunkheaded and lumbering, and the meek were shoved from the spotlight. And it bears mention that, even during the outcast heyday, for the most part, established acts — i.e., anyone who had plenty to lose — stayed as far removed from the fringe as possible, or if they dared stray outside their lane, they suffered the consequences (the classic example being, of course, Madonna, who nearly submarined her entire career with the simultaneous release of the Erotica album and its accompaniment, the coffee-table book "Sex"). There's a reason it's called "popular" music, after all.

These days, however, things appear to be changing. For the first time, established pop megastars are embracing those on the fringes of society — and finding success in the process. It all started, appropriately enough, with the rise of Lady Gaga, who made no bones about the fact that her earliest support came from the gay community, and over the past year, through videos like "Alejandro" and her campaign against "don't ask, don't tell," she has become the outcast icon of our time. Others followed suit — like Pink, who scored hits with underdog anthems like "Raise Your Glass" and "F***** Perfect"; Ke$ha, whose "We R Who We R" went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; and even Katy Perry, who dedicated her "Firework" video to the "It Gets Better" campaign — and it truly seems that, for the first time since the 1990s, being an outcast was not only acceptable, it was downright mainstream.

Now, Gaga is poised to return with "Born This Way," the first single from her album of the same name. On Thursday, she released the song's lyrics, and if it's not already the biggest outcast anthem of all time, well, then it probably will be very soon. In fact, there's nary an outsider group Gaga doesn't mention in the song — gays, bisexuals, transgenders, ethnic minorities, the disabled, the bullied, the poor — which makes it, and its near-inevitable chart success, incredibly noteworthy. After all, here is Lady Gaga, currently the biggest artist on the planet, releasing a song that not only calls for acceptance of all people, but drags those who aim to oppress directly into the center of the ring. It is not only fierce, it's downright fearless. Gaga has plenty to lose, but she couldn't care less.

And perhaps "Born This Way" is just the byproduct of the era in which we live, a time when social mores are constantly debated, when boundaries are being expanded and contracted, almost daily, and when it truly seems possible that maybe — just maybe — the outcasts could inherit the earth. After all, Bill Gates was an outcast, Barack Obama was too — and look how things worked out for them. And while this may put the fear of God in some folks, it seems that change is inevitable, and, as it is wont to do, pop music is there to provide the soundtrack to all of that change. Just like in the 1960s, when the biggest rock and folk acts of the day led the charge for social rebellion, so too may Lady Gaga. And she'll do it on the biggest stage imaginable. Of course, that might just be speculation, but it's certainly been a long time coming.

Link: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1656878/lady-gaga-born-this-way-lyrics.jhtml


It's so crazy how she's got just about everyone in a tizzy over lyrics. :laugh: Some (I won't even go there...*giggles* gotta love pretenders) are praying for her downfall while others are hyping this up as the best thing since chocolate. I personally am on the fence (I mean we haven't even heard the song yet!).

I do have a greater appreciation for the lyrics because she is being so direct. This has been her approach when speaking out about injustices so it should really come as no surprise that she has transfered her spoken words with her pen. The article got it right...she is fearless.

[scarlet knight]

I have to say, the song is a grower.

And I'm really happy about the directness of the lyrics. I was watching a few covers on YouTube and you really discover who's a homophobic bitch. I gotta give GaGa credit for being so direct about the 'gay, straight, bi, lesbian, transgendered' part.