What's The Status With Gladys?

M.L. Kortes

You’re my sister and I really think you oughta be able to talk to me

You tell me you’re just friends but you’ve been living with Gladys since you were twenty-three

I know that we live in a world

Where it’s so hard for a girl

To be in love with another girl

What’s the status with Gladys?

I call you early in the morning and she answers the phone, it’s beside your bed

She thinks she has to make up lots of excuses why she’s not in her own bed instead

And it hurts me to pretend

That you’re interested in men

But I know that’s what I gotta do

What’s the status with Gladys?

What’s the status with Gladys?

Oh, I’m going crazy, I feel the torture you endure privately

Privacy matters but too much of that and nobody knows you anymore

Yeah, yeah!

I couldn’t love you more, I couldn’t know you less

Did you decide long ago this was a crime and you could not confess?

Oh, is it coz we’re from the Midwest?

Oh we live in a world

Where it’s so hard for a girl

To be in love with another girl

What’s the status with Gladys?

We live in a world

Where it’s so hard for a girl

To be in love with another girl

What’s the status with Gladys?

What’s the status with Gladys?

What’s the status with Gladys?

c. Magda Lane Music/ASCAP