Shining Through

Fredro Starr & Jill Scott

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