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Same Love challenges a society filled with homophobia, prejudice, and outdated worldviews, while also carrying the hopes and dreams of the LGBTQIA+ community for a better future.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
straight
I told my mom, tears rushing down my face
She'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 head
I remember doing the math like, "Yeah, I'm good at little league"
A pre-conceived idea of what it all meant
For those that like the
same sex
Had the characteristics
The right-wing conservatives
think it's a decision
And you can be cured with some treatment and
religion
Man-made rewiring of a pre-disposition
Playing God,
aw nah here we go
America the brave still fears what we don't
know
And "God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten
But
we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago
I don't
know
[Mary Lambert:]
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 to
My love
My love
My love
She keeps me
warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me
warm
[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 sayin'
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 at 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
(I don't know)
[Mary Lambert:]
And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even
if I wanted to
My love
My love
My love
She keeps me
warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me
warm
[Macklemore:]
We press play, don't press pause
Progress,
march on
With a veil over our eyes
We turn our back on the
cause
'Til the day that my uncles can be united by law
When
kids are walking 'round the hallway plagued by pain in their heart
A world so hateful some would rather die than be who they are
And
a certificate on paper isn't gonna solve it all
But it's a damn
good place to start
No law's gonna change us
We have to change
us
Whatever God you believe in
We come from the same one
Strip away the fear
Underneath it's all the same love
About
time that we raised up
[Mary Lambert:]
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 to
My love
My love
My love
She keeps me
warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me
warm
Love is patient
Love is kind
Love is patient
Love is
kind
(Not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(Not crying
on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I'm not crying on Sundays)
Love
is patient
(Not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I'm not
crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(Not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I'm not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
Love is kind