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When I was in the 3rd grade |
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I thought that I was gay |
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Cause I could draw, my uncle was |
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And I kept my room straight |
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I told my mom, tears rushing down my face |
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She's like, "Ben you've loved girls since before pre-K" |
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Trippin', yeah, I guess she had a point, didn't she |
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A bunch of stereotypes all in my head |
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I remember doing the math like |
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"Yeah, I'm good at little league" |
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A pre-conceived idea of what it all meant |
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For those who like the same sex had the characteristics |
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The right-wing conservatives think its a decision |
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And you can be cured with some treatment and religion |
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Man-made, rewiring of a predisposition |
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Playing God |
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Ahh nah, here we go |
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America the brave |
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Still fears what we don't know |
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And God loves all His children |
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Is somehow forgotten |
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But we paraphrase a book written |
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35 hundred years ago |
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I don't know |
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And I can't change |
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Even if I tried |
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Even if I wanted to |
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And I can't change |
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Even if I tried |
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Even if I wanted to |
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My love, my love, my love |
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She keeps me warm |
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She keeps me warm |
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She keeps me warm |
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She keeps me warm |
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If I was gay |
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I would think hip-hop hates me |
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Have you read the YouTube comments lately |
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"Man that's gay" |
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Gets dropped on the daily |
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We've become so numb to what we're sayin' |
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Our culture founded from oppression |
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Yeah, we don't have acceptance for 'em |
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Call each other faggots |
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Behind the keys of a message board |
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A word routed in hate |
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Yet our genre still ignores it |
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Gay is synonymous with the lesser |
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It's the same hate that's caused wars from religion |
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Gender and skin color |
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Complexion of your pigment |
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The same fight that lead people to walk-outs and sit-ins |
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It's human rights for everybody |
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There is no difference |
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Live on! And be yourself! |
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When I was in church |
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They taught me something else |
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If you preach hate at the service |
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Those words aren't anointed |
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And that Holy Water |
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That you soak in |
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Is then poisoned |
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When everyone else |
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Is more comfortable |
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Remaining voiceless |
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Rather than fighting for humans |
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That have had their rights stolen |
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I might not be the same |
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But that's not important |
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No freedom 'til we're equal |
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Damn right I support it |
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I don't know |
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And I can't change |
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Even if I tried |
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Even if I wanted to |
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My love, my love, my love |
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She keeps me warm |
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She keeps me warm |
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She keeps me warm |
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She keeps me warm |
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We press play |
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Don't press pause |
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Progress, march on! |
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With a veil over our eyes |
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We turn our back on the cause |
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'Till the day |
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That my uncles can be united by law |
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Kids are walkin' around the hallway |
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Plagued by pain in their heart |
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A world so hateful |
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Someone would rather die |
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Than be who they are |
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And a certificate on paper |
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Isn't gonna solve it all |
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But it's a damn good place to startXX |
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|
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No law's gonna change us |
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We have to change us |
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Whatever god you believe in |
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We come from the same one |
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|
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Strip away the fear |
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Underneath it's all the same love |
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About time that we raised up |
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And I can't change |
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Even if I tried |
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Even if I wanted to |
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And I can't change |
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Even if I tried |
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Even if I wanted to |
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My love, my love, my love |
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She keeps me warm |
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She keeps me warm |
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She keeps me warm |
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She keeps me warm |
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Love is patient, love is kind |
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Love is patient not cryin' on Sundays |
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Love is kind not crying on Sundays |
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|
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Love is kind not crying on Sundays |
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Love is kind not crying on Sundays |
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Love is kind not crying on Sundays |
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Love is kind not crying on Sundays |
