[CHORUS]
  I see your true color, shinin through
  I see your true color, an' that's why I love you
  I see your true color, shinin through
  I see your true color, an' that's why I love you
  
  [VERSE 1]
  Yo, father forgive, we all tryin to survive where we live
  I'd rather feed the homeless eight times than 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.G
  In my hood it ain't no yellow brick road, we hear the shots echo
  Sneakers hangin from a telephone pole
  In my ghetto aint no rainbow wit pots a gold
  but tha was love from tha family when tymes are cold
  I seen n 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 loose
  in the waterworlds away these are rainy days
  My man got poped at an early age
  These cowards run n say he flipped into his early grave
  They say the good die young, we're headed for dem early gates
  
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  [VERSE 2]
  yo,they say this love wasnt meant to be
  2 people from 2 different worlds,we wasnt meant to be
  it musta been fate you were sent to me
  we'll make it through these hard tymes,eventually
  tha standard fight,walk by faith n not by sight
  we're all tha same color when you turn off tha lights
  i take tha sunshine with tha pain
  wear my Saraguards sad,dats when it rains
  no fridge,kept tha food on tha window payne
  we all breathe tha same air so we all tha same
  im trapped in this ghetto maze tryna make it out
  if you dont know me dont judge me,wuthcu talkin bout
  im far dividable of ard of tha broken dreams
  single mothas yall my heroes,yall my queens
  to get my moms out tha hood,thats my hope n dreams
  to raise my son to be a soldier by any means
  
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