Jill Scott Shining Through Lyrics

Shining Through Lyrics

i see your true (you won't believe the things i've seen)
colors, shining
through
(straight up) i see your true colors,
(yeah) thats why i love
you
(now from the ghetto) i see your true colors,
(straight up) shining
through [shining through]
i see your true colors, (i'm not gonna make it up
man)
thats why i love you

(yo) its hard to forget, we all trynna
survive and we live
i'd rather feed the homeless and take time to talk to
their kids
show them life aint a walk on the bridge, damn as hard as it
is
when i be dreaming i be talking to big
in my hood there aint no yellow
brick road,
you hear that shot, echo
sneakers hanging from a telephone
pole
in my ghetto there aint no rainbow or pots of gold
but there was
love from the family when times are cold
i stayed and analysed the world
from a project youth
i seen the hope in the eyes of a troubled youth
a
good kipper kept it burning in this bubble goose
a motherless child lost in
these streets loose
in the world of more these are rainy days
my man got
popped at an early age
his college funds saved flipping through his early
grave
they said the good the young were headed for them pearly
gates

i see your true colors, shining through (straight up man)
i see
your true (i can see through you man) colors,
thats why i love you
(i know
you really aint like that) i see your true colors,
shining through [shining
through]
i see your true colors, thats why i love you

yo, they say
this love wasn't meant to be
two people from two different worlds, we wasn't
meant to be
it musta been fate you were sent to me
we'll make it through
these hard times eventually
we stand and fight, we'll walk by faith but not
by sight
we're all the same color when you turn out the lights
i take the
sunshine with the pain
grab my serin car said thats when it rains
you know
friends kept the food on the window pane
we all breathe the same air so we
all the same
i'm trapped in this ghetto maze trynna make it out
if you
don't know me don't judge me - what you talkin 'bout
i bought the bottom
bull the car of the broken dreams
single mother's you're my heroes you're my
queens, to get
my mums out the hood that's my hope and dreams
to raise my
son to be a soldier by any means

i see your true colors, shining
through
i see your true colors, thats why i love you
i see your true
colors, shining through
i see your true colors, thats why i love
you

(repeat)

let your love, let your life, i see your true
colour
let your life, let your love, let your light shine bright
i see
your true colour
let your life, let your love, let your light shine
bright
bright bright, bright...