HOPE

[00:00.57] Hope
[00:04.45] Yeah, I'm on my way, I'm coming
[00:08.99] Don't
[00:11.62] Don't lose faith in me
[00:15.46] I know you've been waiting
[00:19.77] I know you've been prayin' for my soul
[00:24.95] Hope
[00:28.46] Hope
[00:33.51] 30 years you've been draggin' your feet
[00:36.27] Tellin' me I'm the reason we're stagnant
[00:40.73] 30 years you've been claiming you're honest
[00:43.60] And promising progress, well, where's it at?
[00:47.97] I don't want you to feel like a failure
[00:51.85] I know this hurts
[00:55.02] But I gave you your chance to deliver
[00:59.00] Now it's my turn
[01:02.05] Don't get me wrong
[01:06.21] Nate, you've had a great run
[01:09.07] But it's time to
[01:13.02] Give the people something different
[01:16.76] So without further ado, l'd
[01:20.68] Like to introduce my
[01:23.39] My album (my album), my album (my album), my album
[01:26.37] My album (my album), my album (my album), my album
[01:29.20] HOPE
[01:31.13] What's my definition of success? (Of success)
[01:35.01] Listening to what your heart says (your heart says)
[01:38.51] Standing up for what you know is (is)
[01:40.28] Right, while everybody else is (is)
[01:42.20] Tucking their tail between their legs (okay)
[01:45.45] What's my definition of success? (Of success)
[01:49.15] Creating something no one else can (else can)
[01:52.95] Being brave enough to dream big (big)
[01:54.75] Grinding when you're told to just quit (quit)
[01:56.68] Giving more when you got nothin' left (left)
[01:58.22] It's a person that'll take a chance on
[01:59.82] Something they were told could never happen
[02:01.53] It's a person that can see the bright side
[02:03.68] Through the dark times when there ain't one
[02:05.23] It's when someone who ain't never had nothin'
[02:07.00] Ain't afraid to walk away from
[02:08.62] More profit 'cause they'd rather do something
[02:10.63] That they really love and take the pay cut
[02:12.48] It's the person that would never waiver
[02:14.28] Or change who they are
[02:15.65] Just to try and gain some credibility
[02:17.70] So they can feel accepted by a stranger
[02:19.64] It's a person that can take the failures in their life
[02:21.77] And turn 'em into motivation
[02:23.16] It's believing in yourself when no one else does
[02:25.65] It's amazin'
[02:26.83] What a little bit of faith can't do
[02:28.45] If you don't even believe in you
[02:30.34] Why would you think or expect
[02:31.61] Anybody else that's around you to?
[02:33.86] I done did things that I regret
[02:35.67] I done said things I can't take back
[02:37.42] Was a lost soul at a crossroad
[02:39.38] Who had no hope, but I changed that
[02:40.96] I spent years of my life holding on to things
[02:43.01] I never should kept, full of hatred
[02:44.93] Years of my life carrying a lot of baggage
[02:47.01] That I should've walked away from
[02:48.47] Years of my life wishin' I was someone different
[02:50.59] Lookin' for some validation
[02:52.19] Years of my life tryin' to fill a void
[02:53.69] Pretendin' I was in-, they get it
[02:55.62] Growing pain's a necessary evil
[02:57.13] Difficult to go through, yes, but beneficial
[02:58.88] Some would say having a mental breakdown is a negative thing
[03:01.45] Which on the one hand, I agree with
[03:02.64] On the other hand, it was the push I needed
[03:04.30] To get help and start the healing process, see
[03:06.09] If I'd have never hit rock bottom
[03:07.32] Would I be the person that I am today? I don't believe so
[03:09.78] I'm a prime example of what happens when you
[03:11.55] Choose to not accept defeat and face your demons
[03:13.42] Took me 30 years to realize that
[03:14.91] If you wanna get the opportunity
[03:16.52] To be the greatest version of yourself
[03:17.99] Sometimes you gotta be someone you're not
[03:19.47] To hear the voice of reason
[03:20.45] Having kids will make you really take a step back
[03:22.14] And look in the mirror
[03:23.11] At least for me, that's what it did, I
[03:24.25] Wake up every day and pick my son up
[03:25.90] Hold him in my arms and let him know he's loved (loved)
[03:27.98] Standing by the window, questioning
[03:29.26] If dad is ever going to show up (up)
[03:31.18] Isn't something he's gon' have to worry 'bout
[03:32.94] Don't get it twisted, that wasn't a shot
[03:34.58] Mama, I forgive you, I just don't want him to grow up
[03:36.62] Thinking that he'll never be enough
[03:38.05] 30 years of runnin', 30 years of searchin'
[03:39.86] 30 years of hurtin', 30 years of pain
[03:41.71] 30 years of fearful, 30 years of anger
[03:43.55] 30 years of empty, 30 years of shame
[03:45.15] 30 years of broken, 30 years of anguish
[03:47.03] 30 years of hopeless, 30 years of (hey)
[03:48.88] 30 years of never, 30 years of maybe
[03:50.64] 30 years of later, 30 years of fake
[03:52.49] 30 years of hollow, 30 years of sorrow
[03:54.32] 30 years of darkness, 30 years of (Nate)
[03:55.94] 30 years of baggage, 30 years of sadness
[03:57.88] 30 years of stagnant, 30 years of chains
[03:59.65] 30 years of anxious, 30 years of sufferin'
[04:01.23] 30 years of torment, 30 years of (wait)
[04:03.13] 30 years of bitter, 30 years of lonely
[04:04.98] 30 years of pushing everyone away ('way)
[04:06.85] (You'll never evolve) I know I can change
[04:08.65] (We are not enough) we are not the same
[04:10.27] (You don't have the heart) you don't have the strength
[04:12.02] (You don't have the will) you don't have the faith
[04:13.91] (You'll never be loved, you'll never be safe)
[04:15.61] (Might as well give up) not running away
[04:17.54] (You don't have the guts) you're the one afraid
[04:19.36] (I'm the one in charge) I'm taking the- (no)
[04:20.93] I'm taking the
[04:22.42] Reins
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