Find Hope

[00:11.01] I, um, you know

[00:12.78] I feel like this important because people can relate

[00:14.55] I feel like there's a lot of people out there who feel like

[00:16.82] They don't, you don't wanna keep going

[00:18.34] I feel you, I'm there too with you

[00:22.39] You learn to smile through the pain

[00:25.39] You learn to trust in the people you love

[00:28.18] You learn that life will always change

[00:30.24] And it's okay 'cause even on your best days

[00:32.26] I understand that it's hard to hold hope (hope)

[00:36.85] Tears in your eyes, feelin' low, I know it's hard to hold on (on), yeah

[00:42.41] See if all we truly have is ourselves

[00:46.48] Why should their opinions weigh you down?

[00:49.01] Tears runnin' down your cheek until you drown

[00:51.00] I just pray you find love (love)

[00:54.32] A love for yourself that's not comparable to anything else

[00:58.10] Sometimes it's hard to cry for help

[00:59.89] But it don't matter what they say, just have hope in yourself

[01:02.95] I might not feel the same pain that you felt

[01:05.49] But I know what it's like to be so damaged you start hurtin' yourself

[01:08.78] See, I'm a man, not perfect

[01:10.53] A stone stole from worthless

[01:12.03] I came up from a city where they say we have no purpose

[01:14.84] And funeral's the only time we ever visit churches

[01:17.36] We grow up without no one, there's a world without this hurtin', all this pain

[01:21.17] They love to blame our generation

[01:23.19] Too many friends I had to bury over confrontations

[01:25.95] We all lost, deep in our hearts, we need some liberation

[01:28.78] And free our children locked in cages, and it's freedom nation

[01:31.80] Lord, if you hear me, save my soul when I pass on from this life

[01:34.85] Hear my pain not my sins, I know I try to do it right

[01:37.88] For the kids with their ambitions

[01:39.67] Dreamin' bigger than they're told

[01:40.93] I hope they see that I did it

[01:42.45] And know they can do it if they find hope (hope), yeah

[01:46.50] Tears in their eyes, feelin' low

[01:49.05] I know it's hard to hold on (on), yeah

[01:52.85] But you can find hope

[01:58.92] It's so like amazing, it makes me so grateful that I'm still able to like

[02:01.46] Even after bein' stabbed, even after bein' shot

[02:04.79] Like I have no breathing problem

[02:06.32] That I'm able to stand and

[02:08.35] And I'm able to like, to look at you without anything

[02:11.42] Like really wrong

[02:12.95] It just made me appreciate, you know, life

[02:17.25] 'Cause I was only 15 when I almost left this Earth

[02:21.09] My momma's cryin' tears in the hospital, but still she had hope (hope)

[02:27.15] Tears in her eyes, cryin' God, beggin' me to hold on (on), yeah

[02:32.96] And I'll never forget the way it felt

[02:35.78] In and out of consciousness, a voice cryin' for help

[02:38.82] I didn't wanna leave this soon

[02:41.09] I had to tell myself to have hope (hope), yeah

[02:45.14] But I was bleedin' from inside

[02:47.17] Tryin' not to go, I couldn't breathe, but still I tried

[02:50.22] All I heard was somethin' tellin' me to stay alive

[02:52.76] Just have hope (hope), yeah

[02:56.09] Blood in my eyes, heart slowin' down

[02:58.61] Tryna hold on (on), hmm

[03:02.16] I'm only here today because I had hope (because I had hope)