WALE - The Pessimist lyrics
rate meFt. J. Cole
(Intro)
Jerry: Oh so there's still hope?
George: I don't want hope, hope is killing me
My dream is to become hopeless
When you're hopeless ya don't care
And when ya don't care, that indifference
It makes ya attractive
(Verse: Wale)
A nigga feeling hopeless, who am I to change perception?
If a nigga kill a nigga he's anotha statistic
If his skin is a little different they gon' say it was self defense
Nigga feeling hopeless
Staring at the idiom box, riddle me this
If a killer was a nigga would niggas still really care
Cuz niggas worser than Zimmerman living life errywhere
Niggas hopeless, small niggas wit big tools
Couldn't get to Harvard, hard work, he hard whipped
Cuz them hardy hah's and hard nights
Are hard to live thru' when you're hopeless
What we gotta do to be winning?
Cuz all the schools getting closed
Dribble a little, coach, shooting at a foe
Cuz they charging in the hoop, no community center
My nigga, hopeless
25 bands, he was shooting not a damn giving
Cousin threw a couple grand at sum' dancers
Throwing back their fat ass, is my glasses confused?
We're the hopeless
America's dream and nightmare in the same bein'
Even when being polite here
Niggas try to bring me down, the life of a pioneer
Lightyears worth of hopeless, celebrities celebrating disgust me
The cerebellum invaded wit all these fresh things on
Watchin' 'Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta' as we speak, nigga we hopeless
Ok, the Steebie show is on
They said my broad rolling weed, now she's mad at me
Cuz she seen a scene wit Rasheeda baby father
So ya think it's all hopeless
(Hook)
Got a pocket full of lint again, but it makes no difference to me
Falling out wit my friends again, but it makes no difference to me
Goddamn, I'm hopeless, oh man I'm hopeless
Got no gas in my tank again, but it makes no difference to me
Ovadraft at the bank again, but it makes no difference to me
Goddamn I'm hopeless, Lord knows I'm hopeless, but still I pray
(Verse 2: Wale)
Nigga feeling hopeless like a Penny wit a hole in it
We as empty as a corazón of a widow
From a soul that she don't know when he's coming home
He don't got No Limit, hopeless
What's a purple heart to a hurt head?
He done done 12 years, he was told six
Prolly go back in a minute, ain't shit here, nigga so hopeless
Thoughts are ravagin' in the whole crib
Now he post-traumatic and always on the edge
On the pills, sum' bills, sum' kids, one leg, nigga so hopeless
A lot of black cops always clap back
There's sum' foul white cops always on deck
Playing race card, guarantee you'll make a blackjack, nigga so hopeless
Cuz we ain't 'posed to eva have shit & we ain't vocal as rap
Niggas, cuz we don't mope unless we try, nigga hopeless
Look at what I go thru' to show ya
Niggas respect money, money respect power
And power, we neva give em unless
A nigga catch, shoot and dribble, we the hopeless
Nah ya ain't out here fo' the culture
Ya finna riot, without a purpose
Ya ain't a muthafuckin' rider, ya a fucking token, posing
Nigga hopeless, of course not literal
But why complain about the man when a nigga wit my skin
The same problems wit them I had, is out there killing niggas too?
Eat yo food, nigga
(Hook)