William Bowden - Daughter of the Light lyrics

[Verse 1: Urthboy] See Granddad wanted a boy, but he got three girls huh You found yourself trying to 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 [Pre-Hook: 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 [Hook: 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 missing When the violence there makes 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 pulling punches It took a lot to pull us all apart Yep, take it all slowly, get a part time job Got to pay the bills, got to take the kid to cricket training Got to try to keep the front, everything will 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 now it goes [Pre-Hook: 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 [Hook: 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 6am, 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