Hope

[00:00.77] Hope

[00:04.22] Yeah, I'm on my way, I'm coming

[00:09.01] Don't, don't lose faith in me

[00:15.64] I know you've been waitin'

[00:19.63] I know you've been prayin' for my soul

[00:24.44] Hope, hope

[00:33.47] Thirty years you been draggin' your feet

[00:36.42] Tellin' me I'm the reason we're stagnant

[00:40.41] Thirty years you've been claiming you're honest

[00:43.86] And promising progress, well, where's it at?

[00:47.85] I don't want you to feel like a failure (failure)

[00:52.10] I know this hurts

[00:55.02] But I gave you your chance to deliver (deliver)

[00:58.47] Now it's my turn

[01:01.92] Don't get me wrong, Nate, you've had a great run

[01:09.10] But it's time to give the people somethin' different

[01:16.53] So without further ado, I'd

[01:19.99] Like to introduce my

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

[01:29.28] Hope

[01:31.15] What's my definition of success? (Of success)

[01:34.60] Listening to what your heart says (your heart says)

[01:38.32] Standing up for what you know is (is)

[01:40.71] Right, while everybody else is (is)

[01:42.04] Tucking their tail between their legs (okay)

[01:45.49] What's my definition of success? (Of success)

[01:48.94] Creating something no one else can (else can)

[01:52.39] Being brave enough to dream big (big)

[01:54.78] Grindin' when you're told to just quit (quit)

[01:56.11] Giving more when you got nothin' left (left)

[01:57.97] It's a person that'll take a chance on

[01:59.30] Something they were told could never happen

[02:01.16] It's a person that can see the bright side through the dark times when there ain't one

[02:04.88] It's when someone who ain't never had nothin'

[02:06.74] Ain't afraid to walk away from more profit

[02:09.39] 'Cause they'd rather do somethin' that they really love and take the pay cut

[02:12.32] It's a person that would never waver

[02:13.64] Or change who they are

[02:15.51] Just to try and gain some credibility

[02:17.36] 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

[02:22.68] It's believing in yourself when no one else does, it's amazing

[02:26.66] What a little bit of faith can do if you don't even believe in you

[02:30.11] Why would you think or expect anybody else that's around you to?

[02:33.56] I done did things that I regret

[02:35.42] I done said things I can't take back

[02:37.02] Was a lost soul at a crossroad who had no hope but I changed that

[02:40.74] 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

[02:47.91] Years of my life wishin' I was someone different, lookin' for some validation

[02:51.63] Years of my life tryna fill the void, pretending I was in

[02:54.81] They get it

[02:55.61] Growing pain's a necessary evil

[02:56.68] Difficult to go through, yes, but beneficial

[02:58.53] Some would say having a mental breakdown is a negative thing

[03:00.67] Which on one hand, I agree with

[03:01.47] On the other hand, it was the push I needed

[03:02.53] To get help and start the healing process, see

[03:04.12] If I'd have never hit rock bottom

[03:05.98] Would I be the person that I am today?

[03:07.58] I don't believe so

[03:09.97] I'm a prime example of what happens when you choose to not accept defeat and face your demons

[03:12.62] Took me thirty years to realize that if you want to get the opportunity

[03:16.09] To be the greatest version of yourself

[03:17.69] Sometimes you got to be someone you're not to hear the voice of reason

[03:19.54] Having kids will make you really take a step back and look in the mirror

[03:22.20] At least for me that's what it did, I

[03:23.80] Wake up every day and pick my son up, hold him in my arms

[03:26.47] And let him know he's loved (loved)

[03:27.53] Standing by the window questioning if dad is ever going to show up (up)

[03:30.45] Isn't something he's gon' have to worry about

[03:33.37] Don't get it twisted, that wasn't a shot

[03:34.44] Mama, I forgive you

[03:35.77] I just don't want him to grow up thinkin' that he'll never be enough

[03:37.89] Thirty years of running, thirty years of searching

[03:39.22] Thirty years of hurting, thirty years of pain

[03:40.81] Thirty years of fearful, thirty years of anger

[03:42.94] Thirty years of empty, thirty years of shame

[03:44.80] Thirty years of broken, thirty years of anguish

[03:46.39] Thirty years of hopeless, thirty years of (hey)

[03:48.25] Thirty years of never, thirty years of maybe

[03:50.11] Thirty years of later, thirty years of fake

[03:51.70] Thirty years of hollow, thirty years of sorrow

[03:54.38] Thirty years of darkness, thirty years of (Nate)

[03:55.44] Thirty years of baggage, thirty years of sadness

[03:57.30] Thirty years of stagnant, thirty years of chains

[03:59.17] Thirty years of anxious, thirty years of suffering

[04:01.56] Thirty years of torment, thirty years of (wait)

[04:02.62] Thirty years of bitter, thirty years of lonely

[04:04.48] Thirty years of pushing everyone away

[04:06.87] (You'll never evolve) I know I can change

[04:07.94] (We are not enough) we are not the same

[04:09.80] (You don't have the heart) you don't have the strength

[04:11.65] (You don't have the will) you don't have the faith

[04:13.25] (You'll never be loved) you'll never be safe

[04:15.11] (Might as well give up) not running away

[04:16.70] (You don't have the guts) you're the one afraid

[04:18.58] I'm the one in charge

[04:19.92] I'm taking the (no)

[04:20.46] I'm taking the

[04:22.59] Reigns