Macklemore is a stage name – the rapper’s real name is Ben William Haggerty.
Next is a song based on the themes of love and equality. It is called ‘Same Love’. Read it before you listen to it. If you don’t know it, try to imagine how it sounds. Working in pairs, take turns to read it aloud, imagining the rhythm.
Same Love by 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 preconceived idea of what it all meant For those that liked 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 predisposition 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
