I see your true colors shinin' through   I see your true colors and that's why I love you   I see your true colors shinin' through   I see your true colors and that's why I love you, baby      Yo, father forgive, we all tryin' to survive where we live   I'd rather feed the homeless, take time to 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 ain't no rainbow wit' pots a gold   But tha was love from tha family when times got cold      I seen and 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 water worlds away these are rainy days   My man got popped at an early age   These cowards run and say he flipped into his early grave   They say the good die young, we're headed for dem pearly gates      I see your true colors shinin' through   I see your true colors and that's why I love you   I see your true colors shinin' through   I see your true colors and that's why I love you, baby      Yo, they say this love wasn't meant to be   Two people from two different worlds, we wasn't meant to be   It musta been fate you were sent to me   We'll make it through these hard times, eventually      Tha standard fight, walk by faith and not by sight   We're all tha same color when you turn out tha lights   I take tha sunshine with tha pain   Wear my Sara guards 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   I'm trapped in this ghetto maze tryna make it out   If you don't know me don't judge me, wuthcu talkin' 'bout      I'm far dividable of hard of tha broken dreams   Single mothas y'all my heroes, y'all my queens   To get my moms out tha hood, that's my hope n dreams   To raise my son to be a soldier by any means      I see your true colors shinin' through   I see your true colors and that's why I love you   I see your true colors shinin' through   I see your true colors and that's why I love you, baby      I see your true colors shinin' through   I see your true colors and that's why I love you   I see your true colors shinin' through   I see your true colors and that's why I love you, baby