Hope

[00:01.05] Hope

[00:03.98] Yeah, I'm on my way, I'm coming

[00:07.73] Don't, don't lose faith in me

[00:14.11] I know you've been waitin'

[00:19.15] I know you've been prayin' for my soul

[00:24.73] Hope, hope

[00:30.04] Thirty years you been draggin' your feet

[00:35.89] Tellin' me I'm the reason we're stagnant

[00:39.87] Thirty years you've been claiming you're honest

[00:42.53] And promising progress, well, where's it at?

[00:47.84] I don't want you to feel like a failure (failure)

[00:51.29] I know this hurts

[00:54.50] But I gave you your chance to deliver (deliver)

[00:58.75] Now it's my turn

[01:01.40] Don't get me wrong, Nate, you've had a great run

[01:08.04] But it's time to give the people somethin' different

[01:15.48] So without further ado, I'd

[01:19.73] Like to introduce my

[01:22.39] (My album, my album, my album, my album, my album, my album, my album)

[01:27.70] Hope

[01:30.89] What's my definition of success? (Of success)

[01:33.82] Listening to what your heart says (your heart says)

[01:38.06] Standing up for what you know is (is)

[01:40.19] Right, while everybody else is (is)

[01:42.33] Tucking their tail between their legs (okay)

[01:43.92] What's my definition of success? (Of success)

[01:48.70] Creating something no one else can (else can)

[01:51.62] Being brave enough to dream big (big)

[01:54.01] Grindin' when you're told to just quit (quit)

[01:55.89] Giving more when you got nothin' left (left)

[01:57.77] It's a person that'll take a chance on

[01:59.34] Something they were told could never happen

[02:00.93] It's a person that can see the bright side through the dark times when there ain't one

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

[02:06.78] Ain't afraid to walk away from more profit

[02:08.37] 'Cause they'd rather do somethin' that they really love and take the pay cut

[02:11.82] It's a person that would never waver

[02:13.68] Or change who they are

[02:15.54] Just to try and gain some credibility

[02:17.14] So they could feel accepted by a stranger

[02:19.00] It's a person that can take the failures in their life and turn them into motivation

[02:22.45] It's believing in yourself when no one else does, it's amazing

[02:26.43] What a little bit of faith can do if you don't even believe in you

[02:29.62] Why would you think or expect anybody else that's around you to?

[02:33.36] I done did things that I regret

[02:35.21] I done said things I can't take back

[02:37.07] Was a lost soul at a crossroad who had no hope but I changed that

[02:40.26] I spent years of my life holdin' on to things I never should've kept, full of hatred

[02:43.98] Years of my life carryin' a lot of baggage that I should've walked away from

[02:47.70] Years of my life wishin' I was someone different, lookin' for some validation

[02:50.62] Years of my life tryna fill the void, pretending I was in

[02:54.08] They get it

[02:55.40] Growing pain's a necessary evil

[02:56.73] Difficult to go through, yes, but beneficial

[02:58.07] Some would say having a mental breakdown is a negative thing

[03:00.20] Which on one hand, I agree with

[03:02.32] On the other hand, it was the push I needed

[03:03.92] To get help and start the healing process, see

[03:05.78] If I'd have never hit rock bottom

[03:07.37] Would I be the person that I am today?

[03:08.43] I don't believe so

[03:09.76] I'm a prime example of what happens when you choose to not accept defeat and face your demons

[03:12.95] Took me thirty years to realize that if you want to get the opportunity

[03:16.19] To be the greatest version of yourself

[03:17.73] Sometimes you got to be someone you're not to hear the voice of reason

[03:19.59] Having kids will make you really take a step back and look in the mirror

[03:21.72] At least for me that's what it did, I

[03:24.64] Wake up every day and pick my son up, hold him in my arms

[03:26.76] And let him know he's loved (loved)

[03:29.16] Standing by the window questioning if dad is ever going to show up (up)

[03:30.22] Isn't something he's gon' have to worry about

[03:32.97] Don't get it twisted, that wasn't a shot

[03:34.04] Mama, I forgive you

[03:35.27] I just don't want him to grow up thinkin' that he'll never be enough

[03:37.67] Thirty years of running, thirty years of searching

[03:39.98] Thirty years of hurting, thirty years of pain

[03:41.64] Thirty years of fearful, thirty years of anger

[03:43.76] Thirty years of empty, thirty years of shame

[03:45.36] Thirty years of broken, thirty years of anguish

[03:47.22] Thirty years of hopeless, thirty years of (hey)

[03:49.08] Thirty years of never, thirty years of maybe

[03:50.67] Thirty years of later, thirty years of fake

[03:52.27] Thirty years of hollow, thirty years of sorrow

[03:54.12] Thirty years of darkness, thirty years of (Nate)

[03:56.25] Thirty years of baggage, thirty years of sadness

[03:57.58] Thirty years of stagnant, thirty years of chains

[03:59.45] Thirty years of anxious, thirty years of suffering

[04:01.31] Thirty years of torment, thirty years of (wait)

[04:02.90] Thirty years of bitter, thirty years of lonely

[04:04.76] Thirty years of pushing everyone away

[04:06.36] (You'll never evolve) I know I can change

[04:08.23] (We are not enough) we are not the same

[04:09.83] (You don't have the heart) you don't have the strength

[04:11.68] (You don't have the will) you don't have the faith

[04:13.55] (You'll never be loved, you'll never be safe

[04:15.14] Might as well give up) not running away

[04:17.00] (You don't have the guts) you're the one afraid

[04:18.59] I'm the one in charge

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

[04:21.27] I'm taking the

[04:22.59] Reigns