Glimpses

[Verse 1 Urthboy] My mum asked me did she do a good job Did she bring us up right, within a rough ride? For real ma, I swear there ain't nothing that I'd swap there So you should feel pride is how I replied My blood made brighter by your sunlight You told me fireworks form with words, when you run riot The way they races you head when they're untied You let me know they'll run dry but they'll fly again The colour of our eyes different the tears the same But I've got your smile when I hear your name If I'm to inherit your deaf and blindness Let me get the hope and the kindness I'm cut from the cloth of the finest From the same stock as your highness No one deny me of this so please Don't ask me how you could've done a better job Cos there ain't nothing I can think of [Hook Jane & Jimblah] I saw myself in the mirror Got a glimpse of my dad I did a double take Realised what I had I'll go my own way I've got to go I'll always come back To be honest it scares me Thinking about that [Verse 2 Jane] Memories sting and sooth me My blue eyes the way I adjust my shoulders For a moment she's still here with me The pain erased and the weight released I join the dots to make a picture So many gaps where fables are builders It gets me closer to who she was What she gave me, what I lost She gave me compassion See and trust what I imagine So I stand where she stood Share the footsteps that she took With my feet in her shoes I do what I do for two I transcribe our truth Hope one day I'll pass it on too [Hook] [Verse 3] I got this from my old man He used to sing and jam with my Sis on the keys That self-belied, my mum's side of the family tree I owe it to my grandmother for that will to achieve And all the dreams that I perceive because I put in time now On the principals and morals what I base my life around It's the foundation: Larrakia, Dutch, Yanuwa Can't forget Philo blood Spanish cuz, what up brah? Talking all corners of the globe just to get where I'm from And yet I still call this home Like the coast when I see it after forty thou years So precious I'm connected through the ghosts of my peers Ancestors, bless us with an angelic presence I can feel it in my vein now the strength that I treasure Re-up for the blessing as now I can look at my hands and see a life-long investment Questions [Hook]