Pride Month Music 11-Same Love by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Mary Lambert
Music Lettering
Happy Pride Month! 🌈🏳️🌈
As we approach the end of Pride Month, I’m creating lettering pieces celebrating music related to LGBTQIA+ community. My goal is to expose people to good music and artists while also help bringing the community filled with diversity together, since music is like a universal language that can touch anyone’s heart.
Same Love challenges a society filled with homophobia, prejudice, and outdated worldviews, while also carrying the hopes and dreams of the LGBTQIA+ community for a better future. The song is overflowing with raw, genuine emotion—I could truly feel the pain and struggles throughout, and it got me a bit teary the first time I listened.
Indeed, the world can be cruel, with hatred and bias approaching us from every corner, whether as a direct attack or in a subtle tone. But real change begins within ourselves, and it grows when we inspire those around us to change as well.
We must open our minds and our hearts to recognize that love is love, and to embrace it in all its beautiful forms. For there is nothing more powerful than a bond built on love and mutual understanding.
For the lettering, I want to capture the idea that a big heart and an inner light can truly change the world. I kept the design simple, because at the end of the day, that’s what matters most: love.
No matter how many bruises hatred and prejudice may leave, it’s love that helps us get back up every time the world tries to push us down. Love is our strength, our resilience, and the reason we keep moving forward.
Same Love by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Mary Lambert
[Macklemore:]When I was in the third grade I thought that I was gay'Cause I could draw, my uncle was, and I kept my room straightI told my mom, tears rushing down my faceShe's like "Ben you've loved girls since before Pre-K, trippin'"Yeah, I guess she had a point, didn't she?Bunch of stereotypes all in my headI remember doing the math like, "Yeah, I'm good at little league"A pre-conceived idea of what it all meantFor those that like the same sexHad the characteristicsThe right-wing conservatives think it's a decisionAnd you can be cured with some treatment and religionMan-made rewiring of a pre-dispositionPlaying God, aw nah here we goAmerica the brave still fears what we don't knowAnd "God loves all his children" is somehow forgottenBut we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years agoI don't know
[Mary Lambert:]And I can't changeEven if I triedEven if I wanted toAnd I can't changeEven if I triedEven if I wanted toMy loveMy loveMy loveShe keeps me warmShe keeps me warmShe keeps me warmShe keeps me warm
[Macklemore:]If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates meHave you read the YouTube comments lately?"Man, that's gay" gets dropped on the dailyWe've become so numb to what we're sayin'Our culture founded from oppressionYet we don't have acceptance for 'emCall each other faggots behind the keys of a message boardA word rooted in hate, yet our genre still ignores it"Gay" is synonymous with the lesserIt's the same hate that's caused wars from religionGender to skin color, the complexion of your pigmentThe same fight that led people to walk-outs and sit-insIt's human rights for everybody, there is no differenceLive on and be yourselfWhen I was at church they taught me something elseIf you preach hate at the service those words aren't anointedThat holy water that you soak in has been poisonedWhen everyone else is more comfortable remaining voicelessRather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolenI might not be the same, but that's not importantNo freedom 'til we're equal, damn right I support it
(I don't know)
[Mary Lambert:]And I can't changeEven if I triedEven if I wanted toMy loveMy loveMy loveShe keeps me warmShe keeps me warmShe keeps me warmShe keeps me warm
[Macklemore:]We press play, don't press pauseProgress, march onWith a veil over our eyesWe turn our back on the cause'Til the day that my uncles can be united by lawWhen kids are walking 'round the hallway plagued by pain in their heartA world so hateful some would rather die than be who they areAnd a certificate on paper isn't gonna solve it allBut it's a damn good place to startNo law's gonna change usWe have to change usWhatever God you believe inWe come from the same oneStrip away the fearUnderneath it's all the same loveAbout time that we raised up
[Mary Lambert:]And I can't changeEven if I triedEven if I wanted toAnd I can't changeEven if I triedEven if I wanted toMy loveMy loveMy loveShe keeps me warmShe keeps me warmShe keeps me warmShe keeps me warm
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