Fredro Starr And Jill Scott Shining Through Lyrics

Shining Through Lyrics

Chorus {Jill Scott}
I see your true color, shining through
I see your true
color, an' that's why I love you
I see your true color, shining through
I
see your true color, an' that's why I love you

Verse 1 {Fredro
Starr}
Yo, father forgive, we all tryin to survive where we live
I'd
rather feed the homeless take time and talk to da the kids
Show 'em live
ain't no walk on the bridge
Damn as hard as it is, when I be dreamin I be
talkin ta B.I.G
In my hood it ain't no yellow brick road, you hear the shots
echo
Sneakers hangin from a telephone pole
In my ghetto ain't no rainbow
wit pots of gold
But there was love from the faimly when times are cold
I
seen n analyzed tha world from my project roof
An' seen the hope in tha eyes
of a troubled youth
A good kip, I kept this burna is dis motha goose
A
motherless child lost in tha streets loose
In tha water worlds away these a
rainy days
My man got popped at an early age
His college friends say he
flipped into his early grave
They say the good die young when headed for
them pearly gates

Chorus

Verse 2 {Fredro Starr}
They say this
love wasn't meant to be
2 people form 2 different world, we wasn't meant to
be
It musta been fate you were sent to me
We'll make it through these
hard times eventually
Tha standed fight, walk by faith but not by
sight
We're all the same color when you turn off tha lights
I take tha
sunshine with tha pain
Wear my Saraguards sad, dats when it rains
No
fridge, kept tha food on the window payne
We all breathe tha same air so we
all tha same
I'm trapped in this ghetto maze tryna make it out
If you
don't know me don't judge me, wutchu talkin bout
I'm far dividable of ard of
tha broken dreams
Single mothas y'all my heros, y'all my queens
To get my
moms out tha hood, thats hope n dreams
To raise my son to be a soldier by
any means

Chorus to fade