Daughter of the Light

[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