And Everybody's Doing Great

Billy came out last fall

And everybody's doing great

Mom can't stop smiling

And baking cupcakes

And everybody's doing great

Dad's in the garage

Almost everyday

Working on a car

That hasn't worked

Since the Eisenhower administration

And everybody's doing great

Billy's brother's playing hoops

And trying to figure out how

He's going to tell his friends

That his brother is who he is

And everybody's doing great

Mom's on the phone for hours a day

Telling her friends

How her family's okay

Even though her Billy's...you know

Nobody's ashamed

Well of course not, no

She loves him anyway

She always had a feeling

That he might be

That way

And anyway

They're not the kind of people

Who shun their sun

Over who he is

Trailer trash

Does stuff like that

And that's not who they are

And everybody's doing great

At least they will be soon

Dad will come around

And Billy's brother will open up

And Billy will, one day, come out of his room

Everybody's just fantastic

Mom assures her friends

And they'll eat dinner at the dinner table

Because normalcy

Doesn't have to end

Maybe this is a new beginning

Of a more honest age

Thank God, Mom thinks, Billy didn't grow up

In the house

She did

Back then there would have been fighting and screaming

And Billy would have wound up

Thrown out

Not today

Not how things are

Dad may have made a comment or two

And Billy's mother may have made an excuse

For why he said those things

But it's still a shock, isn't it?

It's still sex, isn't it?

It relates

It pertains

It's about sex

Her kid, their kid

The kid

Billy

Having sex

Isn't it?

So naturally it's going to be hard to take

But everybody's doing great

And if Billy gets the feeling

Things are uneasy

Well, what's there to do?

What more can be done?

Is this supposed to be fun?

Billy's Mom is scrubbing the oven

And his Dad is playing golf

And his brother is walking around the neighborhood

Hoping he'll come back

To find the tension gone

But he'll need a longer walk than that

And Billy's Mom knows she needs to stop

Needs to stop and go and hug her kid

And tell him everything's okay

He'll be okay, they'll be okay

Really, okay?

Okay

Okay?

Okay

She needs to

'Cause she knows

What's at stake

If she can't prove

That everybody's

Doing great