Firebird took forever crossing oceans to me
One whole year of waiting impatiently
Cold War uniforms, cigarette lights
KGB boys kissing late at night

“Kinda gay, bro” — understatement of the year
Every longing glance practically disappeared
Into steam and vodka and Soviet skies
While I sat there stunned in the theater light

And when Rasputin started playing loud
I swear the whole room spun around

Red stars, blue smoke
Hands hidden beneath big coats
Love like a state secret
Everybody knows but nobody speaks it

They’re hot, they’re verse
Complicated in the best worst way
But that four-years-later wig?
Baby, lock it far away

The film being in English threw me off the trail
Something about the accents made the fantasy derail
Still, every stare across the room
Felt like lighting a match beside a fuse

And then those fighter planes took to the sky
Right as somebody hit their climax
Subtlety completely left the chat
The symbolism damn near saluted back

Jets screaming overhead
Bodies shaking in the dark
Some metaphors whisper softly
This one parked itself directly in my heart

Red stars, blue smoke
Hands hidden beneath big coats
Love like a state secret
Everybody knows but nobody speaks it

They’re hot, they’re verse
Complicated in the best worst way
But that four-years-later wig?
Baby, throw that thing away

Maybe every queer romance
Needs one terrible wig in hindsight
A little reminder history’s cruel
And no one survives the time jump right

Still I waited over a year for this
And honestly? Worth the dramatics
Give me doomed Soviet homoerotic tension
Set to disco classics

KGB. Kinda gay, bro.
Jet planes taking off real slow
Boys in uniform moving too close
Acting like nobody notices

KGB. Kinda gay, bro.
State secrets underneath the clothes
And when Rasputin hit the stereo
I almost lost my mind in row four

Red stars, blue smoke
Kisses hidden from the world
Cold War boys with warm hands
Trying not to get caught in love

And when the planes rose through the clouds
Yeah, the metaphor was obvious
But sometimes being way too much
Is exactly what the moment wants from us

KGB!

Kinda gay, bro

KGB.

It really is gay, though.