Chords for Same Love - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat. Mary Lambert)

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