Same Love (Remix)

Same Love Remix

VERSE 01:

Dear Mom, why do people care about my color?

I didn't mean for people to judge me like a cover

I never asked for these two complexions that I usher

Let's begin with the fucker that choked out Eric Garner

Or the boy who was killed walking down the street

Black lives matter more than these cops want it to be

Why can't my mom walk into a white neighborhood

Without being looked at or told where they should be?

He told his mom ''We will live in a better neighborhood, just wait''

But not even then is this family safe from the neighborhood watch

People so blind don't see that racism is alive but claim it's not

We just protest with proud 'Americans' waiting for justice

Please don't shoot?, put your hands up and salute

They shoot the ones that is shootin each other on them blocks

Not even knowin that is someone's little boy or girl

Wonder if they think of this every time of the night

The media just runs bunches of racism actin like it's all right

I ain't just a color, I am more than just that, I'm a human

Look closely and you'll see it.....but I don't know

HOOK: [Mary Lambert]

But 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 [x4]

VERSE 02: [Macklemore]

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've become so numb to what we're saying

Our culture founded from oppression

Yet we don't have acceptance for 'em

Call each other faggots

Behind the keys of a message board

A word rooted in hate

Yet our genre still ignores it

"Gay" is synonymous with the lesser

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

Gender to skin color, 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 in church they taught me something else

If you preach hate at the service, those words aren't anointed

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 til we're equal

Damn right I support it

HOOK:

VERSE 03:

Why is it this way, what is the cause?

Progress?, peaceful marches

With a evil over there eyes, they turn there back on our laws

'Til the day Ferguson can be peaceful without any cause

Blacks can walk down the street

Not scared to be ashamed

A world view in so much hate

Some would rather kill

Then fight there rights against the will

And a month of celebration

Isn't gonna solve it all

But maybe an apology is where to start

No man's gonna change us

We have to change us

Whatever religion you believe in

We all can be from the same one

Strip away the hate, beneath, we all are the same one

It's about time that we give love

HOOK:

OUTRO:

Love is patient, love is kind

Love is patient (not crying on Sundays) [x5]

Love is kind (not crying on Sundays) [x5]