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]

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