Shining Through (Theme From “Save the Last Dance”)

[Chorus: Jill Scott] I see your true colors, shining through I see your true colors, that's why I love you I see your true colors, shining through I see your true colors, 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 the 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 BIG In 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 there was love from the family when times are cold I seen and analysed the world from my project roof And seen the hope in the eyes of a troubled youth A good kid, I kept my burna in dis bubble goose A motherless child lost in these streets loose In the immortal words of Rae, these are rainy days My man got popped at an early age His college fund saved up into his early grave They say the good die young, we're headed for them pearly gates [Chorus: Jill Scott] I see your true colors, shining through I see your true colors, that's why I love you I see your true colors, shining through I see your true colors, that's why I love you [Verse 2: Fredro Starr] They say this love wasn't meant to be Two people from two different worlds, we wasn't meant to be It must'a been fate you were sent to me We'll make it through these hard times eventually Let's stand and fight, walk by faith, and not by sight We're all the same color when you turn out the lights I take the sunshine with the pain Grandma said "when God sad, that's when it rains" No fridge, kept the food on the window pane We all breathe the same air, so we all the same I'm trapped in this ghetto maze, tryna make it out If you don't know me, don't judge me, what'chu talkin' 'bout? I'm fathered by the boulevard of broken dreams Single mothers – y'all my heroes, y'all my queens To get my moms out the hood, that's my hope and dreams To raise my son to be a soldier, by any means [Chorus: Jill Scott] I see your true colors, shining through I see your true colors, that's why I love you I see your true colors, shining through I see your true colors, that's why I love you [Outro: Jill Scott] [?]