[00:00.00]14. Fredro Starr & Jill Scott Shining Through (Theme From 'Save The Last Dance') - Various Artists
[00:00.54]I see your true colors shining through
[00:05.84]I see your true colors that's why I love you
[00:11.62]I see your true colors shining through
[00:16.17]Shining through
[00:16.95]I see your true colors that's why I love you
[00:22.52]Yo father forgive we all tryin' to survive where we live
[00:25.51]I'd rather feed the homeless take times and talk to the kids
[00:28.35]Show 'em life ain't no walk on the bridge
[00:30.43]D**n as hard as it is
[00:31.77]When I be dreamin' I be talkin' to big
[00:33.93]In my hood it ain't no yellow brick road
[00:35.69]We hear the shots echo
[00:37.18]Sneakers hangin' from a telephone pole
[00:39.28]In my ghetto ain't no rainbow wit pots a gold
[00:41.81]But there was love from the family when times are cold
[00:44.48]I seen and analysed the world from my project roof
[00:47.26]And seen the hope in the eyes of a troubled youth
[00:50.03]A good kid I kept my burna in dis bubble goose
[00:52.73]A motherless child lost in these streets loose
[00:55.63]In the immortal words of rae these are rainy days
[00:58.87]My man got popped at an early age
[01:00.91]His college fund saved up into his early grave
[01:03.61]They say the good die young were headed for them pearly gates
[01:05.97]I see your true colors shining through
[01:11.42]I see your true colors that's why I love you
[01:16.84]I see your true colors shining through
[01:22.18]I see your true colors that's why I love you
[01:28.43]They say this love wasn't meant to be
[01:30.21]Two people from two different worlds we wasn't meant to be
[01:33.37]It musta been fate you were sent to me
[01:35.67]We'll make it through these hard times eventually
[01:38.85]Let's stand and fight walk by faith and not by sight
[01:42.06]We're all the same color when you turn out the lights
[01:44.54]I take the sunshine with the pain
[01:46.75]Grandma said when God sad that's when it rains
[01:49.43]No fridge kept the food on the window pane
[01:52.02]We all breathe the same air so we all the same
[01:54.78]I'm trapped in this ghetto maze tryna make it out
[01:57.53]If you don't know me don't judge me wuthcu talkin' 'bout
[02:00.23]I'm fathered by the boulevard of broken dreams
[02:03.12]Single mothers y'all my heroes y'all my queens
[02:05.73]To get my moms out the hood that's my hope and dreams
[02:08.41]To raise my son to be a soldier by any means
[02:11.30]I see your true colors shining through
[02:16.79]I see your true colors that's why I love you
[02:22.26]I see your true colors shining through
[02:27.71]I see your true colors that's why I love you
[02:33.24]I see your true colors shining through
[02:37.70]Shining through
[02:38.58]I see your true true colors colors that's why I love you
[02:44.21]I see your true colors shining through
[02:49.43]I see your true colors that's why I love you
[02:56.27]That's why I love you
[02:57.12]I see your true colors shining through
[03:00.40]That's why I love you
[03:01.75]That's why I love you
[03:03.10]That's why I love you shining bright
[03:06.87]Nice to miss you around
[03:07.74]I see your true colors shining bright
[03:13.37]That's why I love you shining bright
[03:16.04]Bright
[03:16.72]Bright
[03:17.40]Bright