Watch Our Music Video Honoring All Young Mamas
Check out our original music video honoring all young mothers in their strength, commitment, and love in building their strong families, as part of our Mama's Day 2011 campaign. This video was created through the collaboration of ACRJ and the Center for Young Women's Development with soul musician Emily McLean and filmmakers Oriana Bolden and Melinda James.
You can also download the song "You Are" by Emily McLean as an MP3 file.
Credits
Music and Lyrics: Emily McLean
Director: Oriana Bolden of proj-ectPRO:JECT
Editor: Melinda James
Production Assistant: Lara Amin
Many thanks to the wonderful young women of SAFIRE and CYWD!
"You Are" Lyrics
right the impossible
you still come through
roads wide enough you built
my heart was shaped by you
oh nights that heard those tears unearthed
a starry sky
and days that match your smile passed
a wink, a hand, my life
Life likes to throw boulders and stones
reasons for doubt
and the hardest things you'll ever know
a smile does the rest
finding dreams in a test
but what you see how far
you are
I guess life knows me more then I'd ever would
choices made but are they really ever understood
living day to day but with tomorrow always in sight
light blue skies whisper dreams to us all in time
