Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Swamp Sauce, artist - Hermitude.
Date of issue: 02.11.2007
Song language: English
Swamp Sauce |
Hi Mom |
I’m really scared right now, but I have to |
At age thirteen, my mom knew I wasn’t straight |
She didn’t understand, but she had so much to say |
She sat me on the couch, looked me straight in my face |
And said you’ll burn in hell or probably die of AIDS |
It’s funny now, but at thirteen it was pain |
To be almost sure of who you are and have it ripped away |
And I’m sorry if it’s too real for some of you to fathom |
But hate for who you love is not exactly what you’d imagine |
And I guess it was disastrous |
Because everything that happened afterwards was just madness |
Locked away for two years to keep me on the inside |
Because she’d rather see a part of me die than me thrive |
And it’s tougher when it’s something you can’t deny |
And ignorance teaches us it’s something you decide |
You’re driven by your choices, an optical illusion |
Here’s to understanding it’s not always confusion |
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 |
I’ve walked the halls of my school |
And I’ve seen kids hide behind walls and footballs and things like pride |
I’ve seen innocent children suffer beneath bruises |
Suffer beneath every single hand that chooses |
Ignorance, fuck your religion |
Fuck constitutions, fuck superstitions |
There are no lakes of fire; |
they’re here on earth |
And the only thing to do is put love first |
And so I stand for the boy who died by his hand |
To the sound of his father screaming «woman loves man» |
This is Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve |
And I stand for the girl with the cuts up her sleeve |
And the heart in her hand and a chip on her shoulder |
And I stand for it all until ignorance is over |
This is for you, for knowing who you are |
For never letting your magic outside of your heart |
Be you, be brave and understand that things do change |
I accept you for you when I don’t understand |
And I love you for you cause this is who I am |
I accepted you for you when I didn’t understand |
Now love me for me cause this is who I am |
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 |
Here’s a message to the people who just don’t get it |
Love is love, there is no difference |
Not a medication to fix it |
There is no prescription |
No rehab to visit, it is not an addiction |
It’s love and it’s selfless |
It’s yours and everybody else’s |
So don’t badger and abuse the solemnly defenseless |
See us as yourself, there’s no equality in difference |
Until we all get it, we’ll be drowning in the same blood |
Despite orientation, we all feel the same love |
We’ll be drowning in the same blood |
Despite orientation, we all feel the same love |
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 |
We are boxed in and labeled |
Before we’re ever able to speak who we believe we are |
Or who we dream we’ll become |
Like drum beats forever changing their rhythm |
I am living today as someone I had not yet become yesterday |
And tonight I’ll only borrow pieces of who I am today |
To carry with me to tomorrow |
No, I’m not gay |
No, I’m not straight |
And I sure as hell am not bisexual |
Damn it I am whoever I am when I am it |
Loving whoever you are when the stars shine |
And whoever you’ll be when the sun rises |
So here’s to being able |
Here’s to love |
Here’s to loving just because |
Here’s to acceptance |
Here’s to never fearing the fear of rejection |
Here’s to love and never neglecting who you feel you are |
Here’s to bullies because beatings cannot last forever |
Heres' to the moment you realize things do get better |
Here’s to the parents who will get it when its too late |
Here’s to second chances |
Here’s to new fate |
Here’s to every single moment you’ve ever had to hide you |
Here’s to the single star shining bright inside you, asking you to guide you |
Here’s to who you’ll be when you figure it all out |
Here’s to momentary doubt |
Here’s to feeling, because we all feel it the same |
Here’s to the moment that things will change |
Because we all feel love, we all feel it the same |
Here’s to love, here’s to change. |