Fredro Starr & Jill Scott: Shining Through

I see you're true colors shinning through I see your true colors and that why I love you

I see your (one for the ghetto) true colors shinning through (straight up) I see your true (I am make it out) colors and that's why I love you



Yo father forgive we all trying to survive were we live

I'd rather feed the homeless and take time talk to the kids

Show them that life ain't no walk on the bridge

Damn as hard it is when I be dreaming I be talking to Big

In my hood it ain't no yellow brick road you hear the shots echo

Sneakers hanging from a telephone poll


In my ghetto there aint no rainbow or pots o gold

But there was love from the family when times were cold

I sit an analyze the world from my roof seen the hope in the eyes of the trouble youth

A good killa kept a burner in his bubble goose a mother less child lost in these streets lose

In the murder days these are rainy days my man got poped at an early age

His college fund saved flipped into his grave they say the good die young were headed for them pearly gates



I see you're true colors shinning through I see your true colors and that why I love you

I see your true colors shinning through I see your true colors and that's why I love you



Yo they say this love wasn't meant to be

Two people from different worlds we wasn't be

It must have been faith you were sent to me


Will make it threw these hard times eventually

The standard fight brought by faith not by sight

We all the same color when u turn out the lights

I take the sunshine with the pain

Grab my Sara gone sad that when it rains

No French kept the food on the window pain

We all breath the same air so we all the same

I am trapped in this ghetto maze trying to make it out

If you don't know me don't judge me what you talking bout

I am dividable by broken dreams

Single moms you my heroes you my queens

To get my mom out the hood that is my hopes and dreams

to reach my son to be a solja by any means



I see you're true colors shinning through I see your true colors and that why I love you

I see your true colors shinning through I see your true colors and that's why I love you