you say always treat people like you'd like to be
i guess you love being hated for your sexuality

you love when people put words in your mouth
about what you believe
make you sound like a freak


'cause if you really believed
what you say you believe

you wouldn't be so damned reckless
with the words you speak
you wouldn't silently consent

when the liars speak
denying all the dying of the remedy


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tell me, brother what matters more to you
tell me, sister what matters more to you


if i can see what's in your heart
by what comes out of your mouth

then it sure looks to me like being straight
is all it's about
it looks like being hated

for all the wrong things
like chasing the wind
while the pendulum swings


'cause we can talk and debate
till we're blue in the face

about the language and tradition
that He's coming to save
and meanwhile we sit

just like we don't have give a %#@! about
fifty thousand people who are dying today


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