Same Love (feat. Mary Lambert) Chords

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[Ab] _ [Eb] _ _ When I was in the [Cm] third grade, I thought that I was gay,
[Ab] cause I could draw, [Eb] my uncle was, and I kept my room straight.
I [Cm] told my mom, tears rushing down my face, [Ab] she's like,
Ben, [Eb] you've loved girls since before pre-K.
Yeah, I guess she had a point, didn't [Ab] she?
Bunch [Eb] of stereotypes, all in my head, I remember [Cm] doing the math, like, yeah,
I'm good at little [Ab] league.
A [Eb] preconceived idea of what it all meant,
but those that like the [Cm] same sex, have the [Ab] characteristics.
The right wing [Eb] conservatives, think it's a decision,
and you can [Cm] be cured, with some treatment [Ab] in religion.
Man-made [Eb] rewiring of a predisposition, playing [Cm] God.
Aw, nah, here we [Ab] go.
[Eb] America the brave, still fears what we don't know.
God loves [Cm] all his children, is somehow forgotten,
[Ab] but we [Eb] paraphrase a book written 3500 years ago.
I don't know.
And I can't change, _ _ _ _ even if I try, [Ab] even if I wanted [Eb] to.
And I can't change, even if [Ab] I [Eb] try, even if I wanted [Ab] to.
My love, [Eb] my love, my love, she keeps me warm.
She keeps me [Ab] warm.
[Eb] She keeps me warm.
She keeps me [Ab] warm.
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If [Cm] I was gay, I would think hip [Ab]-hop hates me.
[Eb] Have you read the YouTube comments lately?
[Cm] Man, us gay gets dropped on the daily.
[Ab] We become [Eb] so numb to what we're saying.
Culture founded [Cm] from oppression, yet we don't have acceptance [Ab] for it.
Call each [Eb] other pussies behind the keys of a message [Cm] board.
A word rooted in hate, yet our genre still [Ab] ignores it.
Gay is [Eb] synonymous with the lesser.
It's the [Cm] same hate that's caused wars from religion.
[Ab] Gender, the [Eb] skin color, the complexion of your pigment.
The same [Cm] fight that led people to walk out and sit-ins.
It's [Ab] human rights [Eb] for everybody.
There is no difference.
Live on and [Cm] be yourself.
When [Ab] I was at church, [Eb] they taught me something else.
If you preach hate at [Cm] the service, those words [Fm] aren't anointed.
[Ab] That holy [Eb] water that you soak in has been poisoned.
When everyone [Cm] else is more comfortable remaining voiceless
[Ab] rather than fighting [Eb] for humans that have had their rights stolen.
I might not [G] be the same, but that's not important.
[Ab] No freedom [Eb] till we're equal.
Damn right I support it.
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I _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _
can't change.
Even if [Ab] I [Eb] try.
Even if I want [Ab] to do.
_ My love, [Eb] my love, my love, she keeps me warm.
She keeps me [Ab] warm.
[Eb] She keeps me warm.
She keeps me [Ab] warm.
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[Cm] We press play, don't press [Ab] pause.
[Eb] Progress march on with the veil over our eyes.
[Cm] We turn our back on the cause.
Till the day that [Ab] my uncles can [Eb] be united by law.
When kids are walking around the hallway, plagued [Cm] by pain in their heart.
A world [Ab] so hateful, [Eb] some would rather die than be who they are.
And a certificate [Cm] on paper isn't gonna [F] solve it all.
[Ab] But it's a damn [Eb] good place to start.
No law is [Cm] gonna change us.
We have to change [Ab] us.
Whatever [Eb] God you believe in, we come from the same one.
Strip away [G] the fear, underneath it's all [Ab] the same love.
[Eb] About time that we raised up.
I can't change.
_ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ Even if I try.
Even if I want to do.
I can't change.
Even if [Ab] I [Eb] try.
Even if I wanted to.
[Ab] My love, [Eb] my love, my love, she keeps me warm.
[Cm] She keeps me warm.
She keeps me warm.
She keeps me [N] warm. _ _
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_ _ _ Love is kind.
Love is patient.
Love [Cm] is kind. _