Fredro Starr
Shining Through
I see your true colors and that's why I love you
I see your (one for the ghetto) true colors shining 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 where we live
I'd rather feed the homeless and take time to 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 ain't 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
troubled 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 popped 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 shining through
I see your true colors and that's why I love you
I see your true colors shining 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 to be
It must have been faith, you were sent to me
Will make it through these hard times eventually
The standard fight brought by faith not by sight
We all the same color when you 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 pane
We all breathe 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 shining through
I see your true colors and that's why I love you
I see your true colors shining through
I see your true colors and that's why I love you