I knew a lady
A cleaning lady
Who worked on the other side of town.
I saw the healing
Of a heartache
In a smile that I never could define.
Till the moment that she told me: Love, I won't back down
You know I'm working for that little girl of mine.

That she grows on up just like a queen
Like a lady who makes her own wake in the world.
Grows up fine with a love of the Light
Glowing in a heart so refined.

I knew a man
A gentle man
Who came from the south of Sudan.
Had a wife
And a daughter
And a mother that he had lost to war.
I saw the healing
of a heartache
In a smile that I couldn't quite define.
Till the moment when he told me that their love was alive
And that they'd never even left his side.

He said I hear them laughing late at night
About their love for the light and my foolish pride.
Yeah I hear them laughing by my side
And I smile with the tears in my eyes.

These are the faces of my youth
They aint pretty enough
For hit radio
but they're the reason why I sing for you.
Yeah they're the reason why I sing for you.