Hope

[00:00.39] Hope

[00:04.00] I'm on my way, I'm coming

[00:08.57] Don't, don't lose faith in me

[00:15.30] I know you've been waitin'

[00:19.57] I know you've been prayin' for my soul

[00:24.67] Hope, hope

[00:33.22] Thirty years you been draggin' your feet

[00:35.63] Tellin' me I'm the reason we're stagnant

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

[00:42.53] And promisin' progress, but where's it at?

[00:47.14] I don't want you to feel like a failure (Failure)

[00:50.89] I know this hurts (Hurts)

[00:54.42] But I gave you your chance to deliver

[00:58.15] Now it's my turn

[01:01.38] Don't get me wrong, Nate you've had a great run

[01:08.25] But it's time to give the people somethin' different

[01:16.35] So without further ado, I'd like to introduce my

[01:22.21] My album, my album, my album, my album, my album, my album

[01:28.68] Hope

[01:30.75] What's my definition of success?

[01:34.62] Listening to what your heart says

[01:38.15] Standing up for what you know is

[01:39.74] Right, while everybody else is

[01:41.23] Tucking their tail between their legs (Okay)

[01:44.97] What's my definition of success?

[01:48.72] Creating something no one else can

[01:52.33] Bein' brave enough to dream big

[01:54.07] Grindin' when you're told to just quit

[01:55.66] Givin' more when you got nothin' left

[01:58.09] It's a person that'll take a chance on

[01:59.42] Somethin' they were told could never happen

[02:01.01] It's a person that can see the bright side through the dark times when there ain't one

[02:04.73] It's when someone who ain't never had nothin'

[02:06.59] Ain't afraid to walk away from more profit

[02:09.01] 'Cause they'd rather do somethin' that they really love and take the paycut

[02:11.98] It's a person that would never waiver

[02:14.00] Or change who they are

[02:15.34] Just to try and gain some credibility

[02:16.83] So they could feel accepted by a stranger

[02:18.97] It's a person that can take the failures in their life and turn them into motivation

[02:22.43] It's believing in yourself when no one else does, it's amazing

[02:26.16] What a little bit of faith can do if you don't even believe in you

[02:29.87] Why would you think or expect anybody else that's around you to?

[02:33.05] I done did things that I regret

[02:34.98] I done said things I can't take back

[02:36.55] Was a lost soul at a cross road who had no hope but I changed that

[02:40.58] I spent years of my life holdin' on to things I never should've kept, full of hatred

[02:44.02] Years of my life carryin' a lot of baggage that I should've walked away from

[02:47.78] Years of my life wishin' I was someone different, lookin' for some validation

[02:51.21] Years of my life tryna fill the void, pretending I was in—

[02:54.69] They get it

[03:29.58] Growing pain's a necessary evil

[03:31.00] Difficult to go through, yes, but beneficial

[03:32.83] Some would say having a mental breakdown is a negative thing which on one hand I agree with

[03:35.94] On the other hand, it was the push I needed to get help and start the healing process, see

[03:39.50] If I'd have never hit rock bottom

[03:40.98] Would I be the person that I am today?

[03:41.83] I don't believe so

[03:42.60] I'm a prime example of what happens when you choose to not accept defeat and face your demons

[03:46.50] Took me thirty years to realize that if you want to get the opportunity to be the greatest version of yourself

[03:50.72] Sometimes you got to be someone you're not to hear the voice of reason

[03:53.92] Having kids will make you really take a step back and look in the mirror

[03:56.89] At least for me that's what it did, I

[04:02.01] Wake up every day and pick my son up

[04:03.24] Hold him in my arms

[04:04.36] And let him know he's loved (Loved)

[04:04.99] Standing by the window questioning if dad is ever going to show up (Up)

[04:08.46] Isn't something he's goin' to have to worry about

[04:09.93] Don't get it twisted, that wasn't a shot

[04:11.80] Mama I forgive you

[04:12.46] I just don't want him to grow up thinkin' that he'll never be enough

[04:15.43] Thirty years of running, thirty years of searching

[04:17.32] Thirty years of hurting, thirty years of pain

[04:19.07] Thirty years of fearful, thirty years of anger

[04:20.69] Thirty years of empty, thirty years of shame

[04:22.30] Thirty years of broken, thirty years of anguish

[04:24.44] Thirty years of hopeless, thirty years of (hey)

[04:26.49] Thirty years of never, thirty years of maybe

[04:27.95] Thirty years of later, thirty years of fake

[04:29.75] Thirty years of hollow, thirty years of sorrow

[04:31.37] Thirty years of darkness, thirty years of (Nate)

[04:33.25] Thirty years of baggage, thirty years of sadness

[04:35.08] Thirty years of stagnant, thirty years of chains

[04:37.04] Thirty years of anxious, thirty years of suffering

[04:38.72] Thirty years of torment, thirty years of (wait)

[04:40.57] Thirty years of bitter, thirty years of lonely

[04:42.44] Thirty years of pushing everyone away

[04:43.94] You'll never evolve, I know I can change

[04:46.11] We are not enough, we are not the same

[04:47.54] You don't have the heart, you don't have the strength

[04:49.40] You don't have the will, you don't have the faith

[04:51.30] You'll never be loved, you'll never be safe

[04:53.07] Might as well give up, not running away

[04:54.64] You don't have the guts, you're the one afraid

[04:56.50] I'm the one in charge

[04:57.83] I'm taking the— (No)

[04:58.26] I'm taking the

[04:59.85] Reins