PRIDE
Yah, I don't know how to start, wow
Nah, I don't really wanna talk now
I wanna drive with the top down
Rainbows pretty but the hate always comes around
Sick of the performative cruelty
A few shallow jokes to hide a lack of maturity
Say you love gay folk, yet you keep acting shady
My people been getting murdered since the nineteen eighties, Even before that
Stonewall in the sixties
Marsha, Sylvia held it down since the fifties
A lot of the heroes they died alone
From disease you didn't see til it took one of your own
Faggot, Faggot, Faggot Faggot
They sang along, and I sang along to
Just for the love of the song
But I know it in my heart it was wrong
Disrespectful to my heroes to use that word in a song
The road to freedom, it was bloody and long
Progress get's erased with every beat of the gong
Fifty years for my people to be strong
Not giving up just cause a church say it's wrong
His name was Matthew, A name forgotten due statute
And With his death we had to Debate how we react to
Motives and games, and order and shame
The law and they way you are allowed to
Express your disdain, Explain your feelings away
Become a Shepard of change to litigate hate
For the simple crime of not being straight
Because his mama probably crying today
Because his mama probably never the same
Because his mama probably never forgave
The evil men who took her baby away
Still living with the murder today
Dealing with politics, the cycle of change
It's better now but it's still mostly they same
A new body dropping every day
They're still killing us and blocking the way
While the corporations sit back and say
"Sure is nice to be gay"
The next month they put the rainbows away
We're not done yet
Nah, I don't really wanna talk now
I wanna drive with the top down
Rainbows pretty but the hate always comes around
Sick of the performative cruelty
A few shallow jokes to hide a lack of maturity
Say you love gay folk, yet you keep acting shady
My people been getting murdered since the nineteen eighties, Even before that
Stonewall in the sixties
Marsha, Sylvia held it down since the fifties
A lot of the heroes they died alone
From disease you didn't see til it took one of your own
Faggot, Faggot, Faggot Faggot
They sang along, and I sang along to
Just for the love of the song
But I know it in my heart it was wrong
Disrespectful to my heroes to use that word in a song
The road to freedom, it was bloody and long
Progress get's erased with every beat of the gong
Fifty years for my people to be strong
Not giving up just cause a church say it's wrong
His name was Matthew, A name forgotten due statute
And With his death we had to Debate how we react to
Motives and games, and order and shame
The law and they way you are allowed to
Express your disdain, Explain your feelings away
Become a Shepard of change to litigate hate
For the simple crime of not being straight
Because his mama probably crying today
Because his mama probably never the same
Because his mama probably never forgave
The evil men who took her baby away
Still living with the murder today
Dealing with politics, the cycle of change
It's better now but it's still mostly they same
A new body dropping every day
They're still killing us and blocking the way
While the corporations sit back and say
"Sure is nice to be gay"
The next month they put the rainbows away
We're not done yet
Credits
Writer(s): Casey Campbell
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