Mary Lambert has expanded her chorus on the Macklemore and Ryan
Lewis gay marriage anthem Same Love to a full single.
In Same Love – available on The Heist – Lambert
sings the chorus: “And I can't change; even if I tried; even if I
wanted to; my love she keeps me warm.”
This week, Lambert released She Keeps Me Warm, a full track
that builds on that chorus. (The audio is embedded on this page.
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Lambert described the song as “the other side of the Same
Love story.”
“I really tried to not be gay at points in my life, but I was
(and am) at a point where I refuse to apologize about my identity,”
Lambert
wrote in a foreword to She Keeps Me Warm. “I am not
sorry about my gayness. I am not sorry I'm a Christian, either,
though that's far less persecuted than my gayness, which is
ironically, instigated by the Christian community.”
“I will not apologize for love. And my God, the God that I
believe to be true, would never condemn love like this.”
She Keeps Me Warm is “not political. It's not about
oppression or marriage equality. This song is a love song. That's
all it is.”
(Related: Rapper
Macklemore releases video for gay marriage anthem Same
Love.)