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