Frank Ocean

So I've been thinking 'bout ya ... you know you did a great thing
You made the choice to do more than just sing
Mr. Ocean, you have become an inspiration
To a community constantly bombarded with slurs and degradation
When too many gay youth live on the streets or in a grave
I just wanna thank you for doing something so brave
You didn't have to, your personal business is your own
But when you're gay, they expect you to make it known
So they can judge you, tell you that you need to be corrected
That you're not normal because you deviate from the expected
Heterosexist version of love
There's a reason they call it homophobia, they are scared of us
Scared of love
Scared of beautiful
Take away our rights just to spite our love
These glorified American weddings were never meant for the like of us
Like the sight of us is a love crime, but all we see is hate crimes
Imagine being afraid to walk home with your love on the late night
Wrong place, time just another statistic that will never see the front page
Too much hate got too many of us dying at a young age
Too much hate got too many of us being brutalized
Too much hate got too many of us committing suicide
Why can't we just live the sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet life?
...Because we're lost
Lost in a society that thinks gay is an insult
The worst thing you could possibly be
Uncomfortable with their sexuality
So they hide behind hypermasculinity
Can't even show love without adding the obligatory
"No homo"
But we didn't even bat an eye
When Nicki Minaj said she was bi
See girl-on-girl is fetishized
And boy-on-boy is demonized
Either way we're dehumanized
But last time I checked, we all had human eyes
A human mouth, a human heart
But we're lost
Lost in a bad religion that tells us we were born the wrong way
Or better yet tells us that we chose to be gay
And I ask you, who would choose this?
Conversion therapy and corrective rape
Who would choose this?
80 countries where you can be arrested for being gay
Who would choose this?
When LGBT homeless youth make up more than half
Who would choose this?
Picket our funerals with signs that read "God hates fags"
Who would choose this?
Would you choose this?
We are lost
Lost, but we all try
There will be tears, but we all cry
We all fight together
It gets better
Fuck tolerance, one day we'll achieve equality and acceptance
And never ever again will we ever feel like we're less than
Love any man that you want.. just make sure to love that man in the mirror
Love any woman that you want, girl.. just make sure to love that woman in the mirror
No one can tell you how to use your emotions
This is your life... this is your ocean
.. So swim good.. and swim good