Macklemore

When I was in the 3rd grade, I thought that I was gay
Cause I could draw, my uncle was, and I kept my room straight.
I told my Ma, tears rushing down my face
She's like "Benn, you've loved girls since before pre-k, trippin'."
Yeah I guess she had a point, didn't she?
Bunch of stereotypes all in my head
I remember doing the math like "Yeah,
I'm good in little league" A pre-convceived idea of what it all meant.
For those that like the same sex, have the characteristics
The right-wing conservatives think it's a decision
And you can be cured with some treatment and religion.
Man-made rewiring of a pre-disposition.
Playing God. Ah na, here we go.
America the Brave still fears what we don't know.
And "God loves all His children" is somehow forgotten
But we paraphrase a book written 35 hundred years ago.

I don't know.

And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
My love, my love, my love
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm

If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me.
Have you read the YouTube comments lately?
"Man, that's gay" gets dropped on the daily
We become so numb to what we're saying.
A culture founded from oppression.
Yeah, we don't have acceptance for them.
Call each other faggots behind the keys of a message board.
A word routed in hate, yet our genre still ignores it.
Gay is synonymus with the lesser.

It's the same hate that's caused wars from religion.

Gender to skin colour, the complexion of your pigment.

The same fight that led people to walk-outs and sit-ins.

It's human rights for everybody, there is no difference.
Live on! And be yourself!
When I was at church, they taught me something else.
If you preach hate at the service, those words aren't annointed.
That holy water that you soak in has been poisoned.
When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless
Rather than fighting for humans, that have had their rights stolen.
I might not be the same, but that's not important.
No freedom till we're equal.
Damn right I support it.

I don't know.

And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to

My love, my love, my love

She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm

We press play, don't press pause.
Progress, march on. With the veil over our eyes,
We turn our back on the cause
Till the day that my uncles can be united by law.
When kids are walking round the hallway,
Plagued by pain in their heart,
A world so hateful some would rather die than be who they are.
And a certificate on paper isn't gonna solve it all,
but it's a damn good place to start.

No law's gonna change us, we have to change us.
Whatever God you believe in, we come from the same one.
Strip away the fear. Underneath it's all the same love.
About time that we raised up. Sing!

And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
My love, my love, my love
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm

Love is patient, love is kind
Love is patient, love is kind
(Not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(Not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I'm not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(I'm not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I'm not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(I'm not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I'm not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(I'm not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind