Your Truth

[Hook: Steph, the Songstress] It's amazing when you know It's the moment when you grow Everything changes Your thinking rearranges Your mind sees a different view Through the eyes of a new you See the light, the sacrifice You realize your place in life Amazing when you know It's the moment when you grow Everything changes Your thinking rearranges Your mind sees a different view Through the eyes of a new you See the light and realize Your place in life What a feeling [Verse 1] To live a lie isn’t living You gotta live the life you been given However you decide to the ending You try’na make it like you envisioned Use to run and hide, use to wanna die ‘Nuff tears cried we could swim in True self denied, no self pride Like you’re locked inside your own prison Try’na fight loose when they bind you So you’re free enough to go find you Got enough to say to write a novel But they’re limiting you to a Haiku They’ll condemn you with their bibles Tried to kill you with their rifles Even hold you down with their titles Some of us hide for survival When you really know who you are What another thinks shouldn’t concern you But of course this is still hard When a person intends to hurt you Freedom comes with risk... no love without war What you thinkin’ buddy, gonna take it from me? Have to kick down my door ‘Cause my vision hasn’t been clearer I am on a mission now I don’t fear much I won’t give in now, and I’m grinning proud When I see the man in the mirror So I welcome change like it seldom came Very interested in what tomorrow brings Getting all this pain, slowly off my brain Now I see that there is so much more to gain [Hook] [Verse 2] Some call you black , Some call you weird Some call you artist, Some call you queer Some never call, Some are in fear Some, when you speak, will never lend an ear Some, when you need, will never lend a hand Some are simply here to sabotage your plan Some call you different Some call you fam Their the sum of anyone that understands Come as you are, and they love you Couldn’t live false if you wanted to What’s in your heart, can’t undo Come too far, shouldn’t shun truth I had to run to another city, to find my true self what a pity Where they embrace diversity And don’t try changed you with scrutiny Because the skin of me and my kin is known to offend And treated as sin But black is beautiful and always in That’s the way feel, I can’t play pretend That don’t make me better that just mean I love me In a world that loves to paint us ugly Can’t believe we live in a country That tells you who you love is disgusting Thought we lived in a free state But that’s clearly up for debate I don’t speak hate, I won’t behave I don’t give a damn if you relate I just want peace for the peaceful And the haters too ‘cause we equal For I leave you, I really need you To live your own truth, for my people SING... [Hook]