[00:13.27]It's amazing when you know
[00:15.04]It's the moment when you grow
[00:16.92]Everything changes
[00:18.91]Your thinking rearranges
[00:21.00]Your mind sees a different view
[00:23.40]Through the eyes of a new you
[00:25.39]See the light, the sacrifice
[00:27.48]You realize your place in life
[00:29.67]Amazing when you know
[00:31.66]It's the moment when you grow
[00:33.85]Everything changes
[00:35.73]Your thinking rearranges
[00:38.03]Your mind sees a different view
[00:40.22]Through the eyes of a new you
[00:42.31]See the light and realize
[00:44.61]Your place in life
[00:45.76]What a feeling
[00:46.81]
[00:47.12]To live a lie isn’t living
[00:48.37]You gotta live the life you been given
[00:50.46]However you decide to the ending
[00:52.45]You try’na make it like you envisioned
[00:54.54]Use to run and hide, use to wanna die
[00:57.05]‘Nuff tears cried we could swim in
[00:59.03]True self denied, no self pride
[01:01.12]Like you’re locked inside your own prison
[01:03.21]Try’na fight loose when they bind you
[01:05.61]So you’re free enough to go find you
[01:07.39]Got enough to say to write a novel
[01:09.48]But they’re limiting you to a Haiku
[01:11.57]They’ll condemn you with their bibles
[01:13.76]Tried to kill you with their rifles
[01:15.85]Even hold you down with their titles
[01:18.26]Some of us hide for survival
[01:19.93]When you really know who you are
[01:22.12]What another thinks shouldn’t concern you
[01:24.32]But of course this is still hard
[01:26.30]When a person intends to hurt you
[01:28.60]Freedom comes with risk... no love without war
[01:32.78]What you thinkin’ buddy, gonna take it from me?
[01:35.19]Have to kick down my door
[01:37.07]‘Cause my vision hasn’t been clearer
[01:39.16]I am on a mission now I don’t fear much
[01:41.14]I won’t give in now, and I’m grinning proud
[01:43.44]When I see the man in the mirror
[01:45.32]So I welcome change like it seldom came
[01:47.83]Very interested in what tomorrow brings
[01:49.81]Getting all this pain, slowly off my brain
[01:52.01]Now I see that there is so much more to gain
[01:54.10]
[01:54.62]It's amazing when you know
[01:56.29]It's the moment when you grow
[01:58.38]Everything changes
[02:00.37]Your thinking rearranges
[02:02.67]Your mind sees a different view
[02:04.96]Through the eyes of a new you
[02:06.95]See the light, the sacrifice
[02:08.94]You realize your place in life
[02:11.86]Amazing when you know
[02:13.32]It's the moment when you grow
[02:15.52]Everything changes
[02:17.40]Your thinking rearranges
[02:20.01]Your mind sees a different view
[02:21.89]Through the eyes of a new you
[02:23.98]See the light and realize
[02:26.07]Your place in life
[02:27.43]What a feeling
[02:28.58]
[02:29.21]Some call you black , Some call you weird
[02:30.46]Some call you artist, Some call you queer
[02:32.45]Some never call, Some are in fear
[02:34.64]Some, when you speak, will never lend an ear
[02:36.73]Some, when you need, will never lend a hand
[02:38.92]Some are simply here to sabotage your plan
[02:41.01]Some call you different
[02:42.37]Some call you fam
[02:43.21]Their the sum of anyone that understands
[02:44.88]Come as you are, and they love you
[02:46.87]Couldn’t live false if you wanted to
[02:48.96]What’s in your heart, can’t undo
[02:51.04]Come too far, shouldn’t shun truth
[02:53.34]I had to run to another city, to find my true self what a pity
[02:57.42]Where they embrace diversity
[02:59.61]And don’t try changed you with scrutiny
[03:01.60]Because the skin of me and my kin is known to offend
[03:04.73]And treated as sin
[03:05.88]But black is beautiful and always in
[03:07.76]That’s the way feel, I can’t play pretend
[03:10.06]That don’t make me better that just mean I love me
[03:12.26]In a world that loves to paint us ugly
[03:14.55]Can’t believe we live in a country
[03:16.44]That tells you who you love is disgusting
[03:18.53]Thought we lived in a free state
[03:20.72]But that’s clearly up for debate
[03:22.71]I don’t speak hate, I won’t behave
[03:25.00]I don’t give a damn if you relate
[03:26.99]I just want peace for the peaceful
[03:29.29]And the haters too ‘cause we equal
[03:31.38]For I leave you, I really need you
[03:33.47]To live your own truth, for my people SING...
[03:35.66]
[03:36.50]It's amazing when you know
[03:37.96]It's the moment when you grow
[03:40.05]Everything changes
[03:42.24]Your thinking rearranges
[03:44.54]Your mind sees a different view
[03:46.53]Through the eyes of a new you
[03:48.51]See the light, the sacrifice
[03:50.81]You realize your place in life
[03:53.32]Amazing when you know
[03:55.31]It's the moment when you grow
[03:57.19]Everything changes
[03:59.07]Your thinking rearranges
[04:01.26]Your mind sees a different view
[04:03.87]Through the eyes of a new you
[04:06.70]See the light and realize
[04:07.84]Your place in life
[04:09.52]What a feeling