When I was in the third grade, I thought that I was gay
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'Cause I could draw, my uncle was, 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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Bunch of stereotypes all in my head
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I remember doing the math like "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 that like the same sex had the characteristics
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The right-wing conservatives think it's 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 pre-disposition
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Playing God, aw nah, here we go
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America the brave still fears what we don't know
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And "God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten
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But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five 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, 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" 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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Yet we don't have acceptance for 'em
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Call each other faggots behind the keys of a message board
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A word routed in hate, yet our genre still ignores it
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And "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 to skin color, the 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, there is no difference
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Live on and be yourself
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When I was at church, they taught me something else
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If you preach hate at the service, those words aren't anointed
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That holy water that you soak in has been poisoned
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When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless
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Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen
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I might not be the same, but that's not important
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No freedom 'til we're equal, 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, don't press pause, progress, march on
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With a veil over our eyes, we turn our back on the cause
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'Til the day that my uncles can be united by law
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When kids aren't walkin' 'round the hallway
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Plagued by pain in their heart
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A world so hateful, some would rather die than be who they are
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And a certificate on paper isn't gonna solve it all
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But it's a damn good place to start
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No law's gonna change us, we have to change us
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Whatever God you believe in, we come from the same one
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Strip away the fear, underneath it's all the same love
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About time that we raised up, sing
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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
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Love is kind
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Love is patient
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Love is kind (not crying on Sundays)
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Love is patient (not crying on Sundays)
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Love is kind (I'm not crying on Sundays)
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Love is patient (not crying on Sundays)
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Love is kind (I'm not crying on Sundays)
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Love is patient (not crying on Sundays)
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Love is kind (I'm not crying on Sundays)
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Love is patient
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Love is kind
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