Love Hiding Under the Hate
Skunk Jugglers
Breaking Through Prejudice · Finding Compassion · Optimistic Power Pop
#CHORUS
There is love hiding under the hate
Cold ice of prejudice meets its melted fate
Hot springs of acceptance now bubble up
Humanity bathed in warm waters of love
#VERSE
I lurked on Ice Mountain
Under gray winter skies
Shoveled cruel coldness
On those I despised
Any who were different
In looks, faith, or needs
Were thrown from my mountain
As unwanted weeds
#PRE-CHORUS
And the power I felt when I’d ostracize
Grew stronger whenever I drank with the guys
#CHORUS
There is love hiding under the hate
Cold ice of prejudice meets its melted fate
Hot springs of acceptance now bubble up
Humanity bathed in warm waters of love
#INSTRUMENTAL
#VERSE
The warlords of words
Were Gareth and me
Two snakes of Ice Mountain
With tongues flying free
Whispered slurs about those
We labeled outcasts
But when the beer flowed
We pointed and laughed
#PRE-CHORUS
The people we’d pick on heard every word
But they feared facing off with our Ice Mountain herd
#BRIDGE
Like a judge bangs the gavel
We sentenced their souls
Calling names face-to-face
Or as online trolls
Our creed drew the line
Between “saved” and “the damned”
And our politics burned
Like a torch in our hands
Then my sister researched
Our own family tree
And said, “Bro, you’re not purebred
Like you claim to be”
#INSTRUMENTAL
#VERSE
My identity crumbled
Like sledgehammered ice
I was forced to the mirror
To look at my life
It wasn’t Ice Mountain
That needed to melt
It was the river of hatred
Inside of myself
#CHORUS
There is love hiding under the hate
I climbed off Ice Mountain, but did it too late
At the bottom I fell down face first in the mud
To beg for forgiveness from all those I’d shoved
#CHORUS
There is love hiding under the hate
Cold ice of prejudice meets its melted fate
Hot springs of acceptance now bubble up
Humanity bathed in warm waters of love
#OUTRO
’Round the world we will swim
In the ocean of love
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