Daughter of the Light

Lyrics

[Verse 1: Urthboy] See, Granddad Wanted a boy, but he got three girls, huh Found yourself tryna bridge these worlds, Ma That's a childhood guilt that you might've felt, huh But he's a man of his time and in his shell, Ma But is it normal to see mouths move? Up and down, no sound alongside You learned to lipread; you learned you had to bluff too Then lit a flame to look up to a light That would guide you back home on the darkest night Robin said "a kid's drowning", you cast aside your safety Swam on out and saved his life At just eleven-years-old, something age defied and the Woman that girl became Worked Kings Cross lanes With the bottom rung and have never really Known of forgotten ones, the hopeless The homeless and on the run, so [Pre-Chorus: Urthboy] So when I see you walking with that gangsta limp A 'life lived properly' limp that grandmas get I think about the path taken and the number of steps And how it's shaping you, whatever come next To sing your song, knowing that some things go wrong I'm not loving that it's Peter Paul and Mary you want But like a bridge over trouble, carry on You're like a bridge over trouble, carry on, still singing [Chorus: Kira Puru] Despite it all I rise Though I may walk blind I'm guided by a bigger force than me I tried to live my life As a daughter of the light But you find out nothing's guaranteed Despite it all I rise Though I may walk blind One day all of this will disappear And I ain't got no use for all this light If I can't share it with you dear [Verse 2: Urthboy] I look back through a mix of blurred vision From a childhood lens and a distant rear vision What the Bible says, well, it seems to have gone missin' When the violence there make your home feel like prison I remember that much, I remember your clutches That held us all together from the start Broken little family to mend and I'm not pullin' punches It took a bit to pull us all apart, yeah Take it all slowly, get a part-time job Gotta pay the bills, gotta take the kid to cricket trainin' Gotta try to keep the front, everything'll be okay How long can you keep it up? Underneath the poverty line Somehow you just did it but got us through it over time? Gotta do it full time? Nothing to it Overdraft? Every other month and I never got the Pumps But instead I got the mum who pulled us up out of the dumps So nowadays [Pre-Chorus: Urthboy] When I see you walking with your gangsta limp A 'life lived properly' limp that grandmas get I think about the path taken and the number of steps How it's shaping you, whatever come next To sing your song, knowing that some things go wrong I'm not loving that it's Peter Paul and Mary you want But like a bridge over trouble, carry on You're like a bridge over trouble, carry on [Chorus: Kira Puru] Despite it all I rise Though I may walk blind I'm guided by a bigger force than me I tried to live my life As a daughter of the light But you find out nothing's guaranteed Despite it all I rise Though I may walk blind One day all of this will disappear And I ain't got no use for all this light If I can't share it with you dear [Outro: Urthboy] And there's a moment at 6 AM, waking up bleary-eyed Jetta wants you to read her a book She taps you on the head and says "wake up Namah look!" Dog and Bird with a bit of theatre in your just woke up voice She's wriggling one foot "Grandma more!" And I smile half asleep at the door