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Shining Through
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Jill Scott
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I see your true (you won't believe the things i've seen) colors,shining through
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(straight up) i see your true colors, (yeah) thats why i loveyou
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(now from the ghetto) i see your true colors, (straight up)shining through [shining through]
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i see your true colors, (i'm not gonna make it up man) thats whyi love you
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(yo) its hard to forget, we all trynna survive and we live
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i'd rather feed the homeless and take time to talk to theirkids
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show them life aint a walk on the bridge, damn as hard as it is
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when i be dreaming i be talking the big
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in my hood there aint no yellow brick road, you hear that shot,set go
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sneakers hanging from a telephone pole
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in my ghetto there aint no rainbow or pots of gold
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but there was love from the family when times are cold
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i stayed and analysed the world from a project youth
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i seen the hope in the eyes of a troubled youth
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a good kipper kept it burning in this bubble goose
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a motherless child lost in these streets loose
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in the world of more these are rainy days
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my man got popped at an early age
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his college funds saved flipping through his early grave
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they said the good the young were headed for them pearly gates
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i see your true colors, shining through (straight up man)
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i see your true (i can see through you man) colors, thats why ilove you
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(i know you really aint like that) i see your true colors,shining through [shining through]
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i see your true colors, thats why i love you
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yo, they say this love wasn't meant to be
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two people from two different worlds, we wasn't meant to be
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it musta been fate you were sent to me
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we'll make it through these hard times eventually
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we stand and fight, we'll walk by faith but not by sight
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we're all the same color when you turn out the lights
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i take the sunshine with the pain
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grab my serin car said thats when it rains
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you know friends kept the food on the window pane
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we all breathe the same air so we all the same
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i'm trapped in this ghetto maze trynna make it out
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if you don't know me don't judge me - what you talkin 'bout
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i bought the bottom bull the car of the broken dreams
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single mother worries now of her son and the hopes and dreams
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to raise my son to be a soldier by any means
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i see your true colors, shining through
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i see your true colors, thats why i love you
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i see your true colors, shining through
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i see your true colors, thats why i love you
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(repeat)
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let your love, let your life, i see your true colour
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let your life, let your love, let your light shine bright
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i see your true colour
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let your life, let your love, let your light shine bright brightbright, bright...
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