NF - HOPE(MP3_160K)

[00:00.17] Hope

[00:04.08] Yeah, I'm on my way, I'm comin'

[00:09.08] Don't

[00:11.87] Don't lose faith in me

[00:15.48] I know you've been waiting

[00:19.93] I know you've been prayin' for my soul

[00:24.92] Hope

[00:27.98] Hope

[00:33.54] Thirty years you been draggin' your feet, tellin' me I'm the reason we're stagnant

[00:40.49] Thirty years you've been claiming you're honest and promising progress, well, where's it at?

[00:47.76] I don't want you to feel like a failure

[00:51.94] I know this hurts

[00:55.00] But I gave you your chance to deliver

[00:58.89] Now it's my turn

[01:01.67] Don't get me wrong

[01:06.12] Nate, you've had a great run

[01:08.91] But it's time to

[01:12.80] Give the people somethin' different

[01:16.14] So without furthеr ado, I'd

[01:20.31] Like to introduce my

[01:22.93] My album (My album)

[01:24.04] My album (My album), my album

[01:25.16] My album (My album), my album (My album), my album (My album)

[01:27.11] My album

[01:29.06] HOPE

[01:30.72] What's my definition of succеss? (Of success)

[01:34.05] Listening to what your heart says (Your heart says)

[01:37.94] Standing up for what you know is (Is)

[01:40.16] Right, while everybody else is (Is)

[01:41.83] Tucking their tail between their legs (Okay)

[01:45.79] What's my definition of success? (Of success)

[01:49.13] Creating something no one else can (Else can)

[01:52.76] Being brave enough to dream big (Big)

[01:54.70] Grinding when you're told to just quit (Quit)

[01:56.37] Giving more when you got nothing left (Left)

[01:58.33] It's a person that'll take a chance on

[02:00.00] Something they were told could never happen

[02:01.67] It's a person that can see the bright side

[02:03.62] Through the dark times when there ain't one

[02:04.39] It's when someone who ain't never had nothin'

[02:06.62] Ain't afraid to walk away from

[02:08.01] More profit 'cause they'd rather do somethin'

[02:11.07] That they really love and take the pay cut

[02:11.91] It's a person that would never waver

[02:13.85] Or change who they are

[02:15.52] Just to try and gain some credibility

[02:17.48] So they could feel accepted by a stranger

[02:19.14] It's a person that can take the failures in their life and turn them into motivation

[02:22.76] It's believing in yourself when no one else does, it's amazin'

[02:26.37] What a little bit of faith can do if you don't even believe in you

[02:28.88] Why would you think or expect anybody else that's around you to?

[02:33.61] I done did things that I regret, I done said things I can't take back

[02:36.94] Was a lost soul at a crossroad who had no hope, but I changed that

[02:40.55] I spent years of my life holdin' on to things I never should've kept, full of hatred

[02:44.45] Years of my life carryin' a lot of baggage that I should've walked away from

[02:47.79] Years of my life wishin' I was someone different, lookin' for some validation

[02:51.68] Years of my life tryna fill the void, pretending I was in—

[02:54.74] They get it

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

[03:31.15] Difficult to go through, yes, but beneficial

[03:32.81] Some would say having a mental breakdown is a negative thing

[03:35.04] Which on one hand, I agree with

[03:37.00] On the other hand, it was the push I needed

[03:38.66] To get help and start the healing process, see if

[03:40.06] I'd have never hit rock bottom, would I be the person that I am today? I don't believe so

[03:43.39] I'm a prime example of what happens when you choose to not accept defeat and face your demons

[03:47.00] Took me thirty years to realize that if you wanna get that opportunity to be the

[03:50.63] Greatest version of yourself, sometimes you got to be someone you're not to hear the voice of reason

[03:54.52] Having kids will make you really take a step back and look in the mirror, at least for me, that's what it did, I

[04:02.24] Wake up every day and pick my son up, hold him in my arms and let him know he's loved (Loved)

[04:05.58] Standing by the window, questioning if Dad is ever going to show up (Up)

[04:08.64] Isn't something he's gon' have to worry 'bout, don't get it twisted, that wasn't a shot

[04:12.24] Mama, I forgive you, I just don't want him to grow up thinkin' that he'll never be enough

[04:15.58] Thirty years of running, thirty years of searchin'

[04:17.52] Thirty years of hurting, thirty years of pain

[04:19.18] Thirty years of fearful, thirty years of anger

[04:21.11] Thirty years of empty, thirty years of shame

[04:22.78] Thirty years of broken, thirty years of anguish

[04:24.45] Thirty years of hopeless, thirty years of (Hey)

[04:26.11] Thirty years of never, thirty years of maybe

[04:28.05] Thirty years of later, thirty years of fake

[04:30.00] Thirty years of hollow, thirty years of sorrow

[04:31.67] Thirty years of darkness, thirty years of (Nate)

[04:33.62] Thirty years of baggage, thirty years of sadness

[04:35.29] Thirty years of stagnant, thirty years of chains

[04:36.97] Thirty years of anxious, thirty years of suffering

[04:38.91] Thirty years of torment, thirty years of (Wait)

[04:40.59] Thirty years of bitter, thirty years of lonely

[04:42.54] Thirty years of pushing everyone away ('Way)

[04:44.48] (You'll never evolve) I know I can change

[04:46.15] (We are not enough) We are not the same

[04:47.83] (You don't have the heart) You don't have the strength

[04:49.50] (You don't have the will) You don't have the faith

[04:51.44] (You'll never be loved, you'll never be safe)

[04:53.11] (Might as well give up) Not running away

[04:55.06] (You don't have the guts) You're the one afraid

[04:56.73] (I'm the one in charge) I'm taking the— (No)

[04:58.69] I'm taking the

[05:00.36] Reins