I see your true colors shinin' through
I see your true colors and that's why I love you
I see your true colors shinin' through
I see your true colors and that's why I love you, babyYo, father forgive, we all tryin' to survive where we live
I'd rather feed the homeless, take time to talk to da kids
Show 'em life ain't no walk on the bridge
Damn as hard as it is, when I be dreamin' I be talkin' to B.I.GIn my hood it ain't no yellow brick road, we hear the shots echo
Sneakers hangin' from a telephone pole
In my ghetto ain't no rainbow wit' pots a gold
But tha was love from tha family when times got coldI seen and analyzed tha world from my project roof
An' seen the hope in tha eyes of a troubled youth
A good kid, I kept this burna in dis motha goose
A motherless child lost in these streets looseIn the water worlds away these are rainy days
My man got popped at an early age
These cowards run and say he flipped into his early grave
They say the good die young, we're headed for dem pearly gatesI see your true colors shinin' through
I see your true colors and that's why I love you
I see your true colors shinin' through
I see your true colors and that's why I love you, babyYo, 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, eventuallyTha standard fight, walk by faith and not by sight
We're all tha same color when you turn out tha lights
I take tha sunshine with tha pain
Wear my Sara guards sad, dats when it rainsNo fridge, kept tha food on tha 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, wuthcu talkin' 'boutI'm far dividable of hard of tha broken dreams
Single mothas y'all my heroes, y'all my queens
To get my moms out tha hood, that's my hope n dreams
To raise my son to be a soldier by any meansI see your true colors shinin' through
I see your true colors and that's why I love you
I see your true colors shinin' through
I see your true colors and that's why I love you, babyI see your true colors shinin' through
I see your true colors and that's why I love you
I see your true colors shinin' through
I see your true colors and that's why I love you, baby
Songwriters
David Cooper;Jr. Scruggs;Billy Steinberg;Jr. Smith;Thomas KellyPublished by
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