Chords for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - 'Same Love' (live for triple j)

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When I was in [Cm] the third grade, I thought that I was gay, because I could [Eb] draw.
My uncle was, and I kept my room straight.
[Cm] I told my mom, tears [Ab] rushing down my face.
She's like, [Eb] Ben, you've loved girls since before pre-K.
Sure.
Yeah, I guess she had a point, didn't she?
Bunch of stereotypes all in my head.
I [Cm] remember doing the math, like, yeah, I'm good at Little League.
I [Eb] preconceived the idea of what it all meant for those that liked the same sex.
Had 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 predisposition, playing [Cm] God.
Oh, now here we go.
[Eb] America, the race, the fears, what we don't know.
[Cm] God loves all his children.
It's somehow forgotten, but we [Eb] paraphrase a book written 3,500 years ago.
I don't know.
And I can't change, even _ _ if I try, even if I [Eb] wanted to.
And I can't [Cm] change, [Ab] even if I [Eb] try, even if I [Ab] wanted to.
My [Eb] love, my love, my love, she keeps me warm.
She keeps me warm.
She keeps me warm.
[Ab] She keeps me warm.
[Eb] _ _ _ [Cm] If I was gay, I would [Ab] think hip-hop hates me.
[Eb] Have you read the YouTube comments lately?
[Cm] Man, that's gay.
It gets dropped on the daily.
We [Eb] become so numb to what we're saying.
Our culture [Cm] founded from oppression.
Yeah, we don't have acceptance for them.
Call [Eb] each other faggots behind the keys of a message [Cm] board.
A word rooted in hate, yet our genre still ignores it.
[Eb] Gay is synonymous with the lesser.
[Cm] The same hate that's caused wars for religion.
Gender, [Eb] the skin color, the complexion of your pigment.
The [Cm] same fight that led people to walk out since it ends its human rights.
For everybody, there is no difference.
Live on and be [Ab] yourself.
When I was at church, they taught me something else.
If you preach hate at the [F] service, those words aren't anointed.
That [Eb] holy water that you soak in has been poisoned.
When everyone [Cm] else more comfortable remaining voiceless rather than fighting for humans [Eb] that have had their rights stolen.
I [G] might not be the same.
That's not important.
No [Eb] freedom until we're equal.
Damn right I support it.
I [Ab] _
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_ _ _ can't [Cm] change.
[Ab] Even if I [Eb] try.
Even if I [Cm] wanted to.
My [Eb] love, my love, my love.
She keeps me warm.
She [Ab] keeps me warm.
[Eb] She keeps me warm.
She keeps me warm.
_ _ _ [Cm] We press play, [Ab] don't press pause.
[Eb] Progress march on with a veil over our eyes.
[Cm] We turn our back on the cause [Ab] to the day that my uncles [Eb] can be united by law.
Kids are walking around the hallway [Cm] plagued by pain in [Ab] their heart.
A world so [Eb] hateful, some would rather die than be who they are.
And a certificate [Cm] on paper isn't going to solve it all.
But it's a [Eb] damn good place to start.
No law [Cm] is going to change us.
[Ab] We have to change us.
Whatever [Eb] God you believe in, we come from the same one.
So [G] remember the fear underneath it's [Ab] all the same love.
[Eb] About time that we raised up.
I can't change.
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_ [Eb] _ Even if [Cm] I try.
[Eb] Even if I wanted to.
I can't change.
[Ab] Even if I [Eb] try.
Even if I wanted to.
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My love, [Eb] my love, my love.
She keeps me warm.
[Cm] She keeps me warm.
She keeps me warm.
She keeps me warm.
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Love is kind.
Love is patient.
Love is kind.
Love is patient.
I'm not crying on love.
I'm not crying on love.
I'm not crying _ _ _ on love.
I'm not crying on love.
I'm not crying on love.
_ I'm not crying on love.
[Cm] Love is kind.
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