NF - HOPE (Lyrics)

[00:31.02] Hope

[00:31.55] Yeah, I'm on my way, I'm coming

[00:00.00] Don't, don't lose faith in me

[00:00.00] I know you've been waitin'

[00:00.00] I know you've been prayin' for my soul

[00:00.00] Hope, hope

[00:00.00] Thirty years you been draggin' your feet

[00:00.00] Tellin' me I'm the reason we're stagnant

[00:00.00] Thirty years you've been claiming you're honest

[00:00.00] And promising progress, well, where's it at?

[00:00.00] I don't want you to feel like a failure (failure)

[00:00.00] I know this hurts

[00:00.00] But I gave you your chance to deliver (deliver)

[00:00.00] Now it's my turn

[00:00.00] Don't get me wrong, Nate, you've had a great run

[00:00.00] But it's time to give the people somethin' different

[00:00.00] So without further ado, I'd

[00:00.00] Like to introduce my

[00:00.00] (My album, my album, my album, my album, my album, my album, my album)

[00:00.00] Hope

[00:00.00] What's my definition of success? (Of success)

[00:00.00] Listening to what your heart says (your heart says)

[00:00.00] Standing up for what you know is (is)

[00:00.00] Right, while everybody else is (is)

[00:00.00] Tucking their tail between their legs (okay)

[00:00.00] What's my definition of success? (Of success)

[00:00.00] Creating something no one else can (else can)

[00:00.00] Being brave enough to dream big (big)

[00:00.00] Grindin' when you're told to just quit (quit)

[00:00.00] Giving more when you got nothin' left (left)

[00:00.00] It's a person that'll take a chance on

[00:00.00] Something they were told could never happen

[00:00.00] It's a person that can see the bright side through the dark times when there ain't one

[00:00.00] It's when someone who ain't never had nothin'

[00:00.00] Ain't afraid to walk away from more profit

[00:00.00] 'Cause they'd rather do somethin' that they really love and take the pay cut

[00:00.00] It's a person that would never waver

[00:00.00] Or change who they are

[00:00.00] Just to try and gain some credibility

[00:00.00] So they could feel accepted by a stranger

[00:00.00] It's a person that can take the failures in their life and turn them into motivation

[00:00.00] It's believing in yourself when no one else does, it's amazing

[00:00.00] What a little bit of faith can do if you don't even believe in you

[00:00.00] Why would you think or expect anybody else that's around you to?

[00:00.00] I done did things that I regret

[00:00.00] I done said things I can't take back

[00:00.00] Was a lost soul at a crossroad who had no hope but I changed that

[00:00.00] I spent years of my life holdin' on to things I never should've kept, full of hatred

[00:00.00] Years of my life carryin' a lot of baggage that I should've walked away from

[00:00.00] Years of my life wishin' I was someone different, lookin' for some validation

[00:00.00] Years of my life tryna fill the void, pretending I was in

[00:00.00] They get it

[00:00.00] Growing pain's a necessary evil

[00:00.00] Difficult to go through, yes, but beneficial

[00:00.00] Some would say having a mental breakdown is a negative thing

[00:00.00] Which on one hand, I agree with

[00:00.00] On the other hand, it was the push I needed

[00:00.00] To get help and start the healing process, see

[00:00.00] If I'd have never hit rock bottom

[00:00.00] Would I be the person that I am today?

[00:00.00] I don't believe so

[00:00.00] I'm a prime example of what happens when you choose to not accept defeat and face your demons

[00:00.00] Took me thirty years to realize that if you want to get the opportunity

[00:00.00] To be the greatest version of yourself

[00:00.00] Sometimes you got to be someone you're not to hear the voice of reason

[00:00.00] Having kids will make you really take a step back and look in the mirror

[00:00.00] At least for me that's what it did, I

[00:00.00] Wake up every day and pick my son up, hold him in my arms

[00:00.00] And let him know he's loved (loved)

[00:00.00] Standing by the window questioning if dad is ever going to show up (up)

[00:00.00] Isn't something he's gon' have to worry about

[00:00.00] Don't get it twisted, that wasn't a shot

[00:00.00] Mama, I forgive you

[00:00.00] I just don't want him to grow up thinkin' that he'll never be enough

[00:00.00] Thirty years of running, thirty years of searching

[00:00.00] Thirty years of hurting, thirty years of pain

[00:00.00] Thirty years of fearful, thirty years of anger

[00:00.00] Thirty years of empty, thirty years of shame

[00:00.00] Thirty years of broken, thirty years of anguish

[00:00.00] Thirty years of hopeless, thirty years of (hey)

[00:00.00] Thirty years of never, thirty years of maybe

[00:00.00] Thirty years of later, thirty years of fake

[00:00.00] Thirty years of hollow, thirty years of sorrow

[00:00.00] Thirty years of darkness, thirty years of (Nate)

[00:00.00] Thirty years of baggage, thirty years of sadness

[00:00.00] Thirty years of stagnant, thirty years of chains

[00:00.00] Thirty years of anxious, thirty years of suffering

[00:00.00] Thirty years of torment, thirty years of (wait)

[00:00.00] Thirty years of bitter, thirty years of lonely

[00:00.00] Thirty years of pushing everyone away

[00:00.00] (You'll never evolve) I know I can change

[00:00.00] (We are not enough) we are not the same

[00:00.00] (You don't have the heart) you don't have the strength

[00:00.00] (You don't have the will) you don't have the faith

[00:00.00] (You'll never be loved) you'll never be safe

[00:00.00] (Might as well give up) not running away

[00:00.00] (You don't have the guts) you're the one afraid

[00:00.00] I'm the one in charge

[00:00.00] I'm taking the (no)

[00:00.00] I'm taking the

[00:00.00] Reigns