Hope

[00:01.73] Hope

[00:04.60] I'm on my way, I'm coming

[00:08.75] Don't, don't lose faith in me

[00:15.66] I know you've been waitin'

[00:19.85] I know you've been prayin' for my soul

[00:24.77] Hope, hope

[00:32.80] Thirty years you been draggin' your feet

[00:36.40] Tellin' me I'm the reason we're stagnant

[00:39.81] Thirty years you've been claimin' your rightness

[00:43.76] And promisin' progress, but where's it at?

[00:47.89] I don't want you to feel like a failure (Failure)

[00:52.20] I know this hurts (Hurts)

[00:55.31] But I gave you your chance to deliver

[00:59.06] Now it's my turn

[01:01.89] Don't get me wrong, Nate you've had a great run

[01:09.11] But it's time to give the people somethin' different

[01:16.05] So without further ado, I'd like to introduce my

[01:23.71] My album, my album, my album, my album, my album, my album

[01:29.02] Hope

[01:31.07] What's my definition of success?

[01:33.93] Listening to what your heart says

[01:38.13] Standing up for what you know is

[01:40.29] Right, while everybody else is

[01:42.27] Tucking their tail between their legs (Okay)

[01:44.20] What's my definition of success?

[01:48.56] Creating something no one else can

[01:52.11] Bein' brave enough to dream big

[01:54.41] Grindin' when you're told to just quit

[01:56.40] Givin' more when you got nothin' left

[01:58.63] It's a person that'll take a chance on

[01:59.70] Somethin' they were told could never happen

[02:01.54] It's a person that can see the bright side through the dark times when there ain't one

[02:05.09] It's when someone who ain't never had nothin'

[02:06.92] Ain't afraid to walk away from more profit

[02:09.10] 'Cause they'd rather do somethin' that they really love and take the paycut

[02:12.63] It's a person that would never waiver

[02:14.06] Or change who they are

[02:15.53] Just to try and gain some credibility

[02:17.44] So they could feel accepted by a stranger

[02:19.22] It's a person that can take the failures in their life and turn them into motivation

[02:22.81] It's believing in yourself when no one else does, it's amazing

[02:26.48] What a little bit of faith can do if you don't even believe in you

[02:30.00] Why would you think or expect anybody else that's around you to?

[02:33.45] I done did things that I regret

[02:35.54] I done said things I can't take back

[02:37.48] Was a lost soul at a cross road who had no hope but I changed that

[02:41.25] I spent years of my life holdin' on to things I never should've kept, full of hatred

[02:44.65] Years of my life carryin' a lot of baggage that I should've walked away from

[02:48.21] Years of my life wishin' I was someone different, lookin' for some validation

[02:52.01] Years of my life tryna fill the void, pretending I was in—

[02:54.71] They get it

[03:02.07] Insidious is blind inception

[03:05.35] What’s reality with all these questions?

[03:08.72] Feels like I missed my alarm and slept in

[03:12.05] Slept in

[03:15.54] Broken legs, but I chase perfection

[03:19.46] These walls are my blank expression

[03:23.39] My mind is a home I’m trapped in

[03:26.70] And it’s lonely inside this—

[03:29.40] Growing pain's a necessary evil

[03:31.05] Difficult to go through, yes, but beneficial

[03:32.96] Some would say having a mental breakdown is a negative thing which on one hand I agree with

[03:36.56] On the other hand, it was the push I needed to get help and start the healing process, see

[03:39.79] If I'd have never hit rock bottom

[03:41.29] Would I be the person that I am today?

[03:42.88] I don't believe so

[03:43.94] I'm a prime example of what happens when you choose to not accept defeat and face your demons

[03:46.86] Took me thirty years to realize that if you want to get the opportunity to be the greatest version of yourself

[03:51.38] Sometimes you got to be someone you're not to hear the voice of reason

[03:54.30] Having kids will make you really take a step back and look in the mirror

[03:57.22] At least for me that's what it did, I

[04:02.53] Wake up every day and pick my son up

[04:03.87] Hold him in my arms

[04:04.92] And let him know he's loved (Loved)

[04:05.99] Standing by the window questioning if dad is ever going to show up (Up)

[04:08.65] Isn't something he's goin' to have to worry about

[04:10.50] Don't get it twisted, that wasn't a shot

[04:12.10] Mama I forgive you

[04:13.16] I just don't want him to grow up thinkin' that he'll never be enough

[04:15.55] Thirty years of running, thirty years of searching

[04:17.41] Thirty years of hurting, thirty years of pain

[04:19.27] Thirty years of fearful, thirty years of anger

[04:21.13] Thirty years of empty, thirty years of shame

[04:22.73] Thirty years of broken, thirty years of anguish

[04:24.58] Thirty years of hopeless, thirty years of (hey)

[04:26.44] Thirty years of never, thirty years of maybe

[04:28.30] Thirty years of later, thirty years of fake

[04:29.89] Thirty years of hollow, thirty years of sorrow

[04:31.77] Thirty years of darkness, thirty years of (Nate)

[04:33.63] Thirty years of baggage, thirty years of sadness

[04:35.49] Thirty years of stagnant, thirty years of chains

[04:37.08] Thirty years of anxious, thirty years of suffering

[04:38.95] Thirty years of torment, thirty years of (wait)

[04:41.06] Thirty years of bitter, thirty years of lonely

[04:42.66] Thirty years of pushing everyone away

[04:44.25] You'll never evolve, I know I can change

[04:46.38] We are not enough, we are not the same

[04:47.97] You don't have the heart, you don't have the strength

[04:49.83] You don't have the will, you don't have the faith

[04:51.42] You'll never be loved, you'll never be safe

[04:53.29] Might as well give up, not running away

[04:54.88] You don't have the guts, you're the one afraid

[04:57.01] I'm the one in charge

[04:58.06] I'm taking the— (No)

[04:58.87] I'm taking the

[04:59.66] Reigns