This song is also available on 1Tribe Collective, Grammy Nominated album All One Tribe
Watch me! Watch me!
Shine
(come on come on)
Watch me
Shine
Let the sunshine in
Let it all in
Feel the love on my skin
Let the melanin
I love my skin
Gonna let the melanin
I love my skin
Gonna let the melanin
When they catch a good glimpse of what I’m really on
I will get some followers
Prolly like a million
Smile so big that it's lookin’ like the ceilings gone
You be like is that the sun?
Nope it's just the bright one
Shades on, take a look (look) at this complexity
Not just a star I’m-a galaxy
I’m the big bang written in the black stars
Everything that’s beautiful has me up at the start
My dreams are awakening everybody’s sleepin in
Follow my light to the life we should be leadin
My imagination is the fire earth is my knowledge
Wind is my word - Flow like water - that’s my power
Let the sunshine in
Let it all in
Feel the love on my skin
Let the melanin
I love my skin
Gonna let the melanin
I love my skin
Gonna let the melanin
Cuz I’ve known rivers
Design pyramids
I mean...I...can fly
Like Pharaoh and Cleopatra did
I sing loud and yes I speak clearly
When it’s about my skin my hair my prayers my family
I’m a bird in the sky - Not like a bird caged
Carving out a true path - right up to center stage
Making my voice a tradition not a holiday
More than a month man my history is everyday
And everyday I pray 5 times and yes I do I pray for you
That you can tie it up tight in a pair of my shoes
Or my skin my hair my clothes my rights my life or the light on my skin and we can
Let the sunshine in
Let it all in
Feel the love on my skin
Let the melanin
I love my skin
Gonna let the melanin
I love my skin
Gonna let the melanin
It’s about that time
That I let you know
It’s about that shine
Come and catch this glow
It’s about that shine
Come and catch this glow
It’s about that time
That I let you know
(repeat)
Let the sunshine in
Let it all in
Feel the love on my skin
Let the melanin
I love my skin
Gonna let the melanin
I love my skin
Gonna let the melanin
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