The Pessimist(feat. J. Cole)-Wale/J. Cole

[ti:The Pessimist] [ar:Wale] [al:The Album About Nothing] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Pessimist(feat. J. Cole) - Wale/J. Cole [00:19.32]Oh so there's still hope [00:20.09] [00:21.12]I don't want hope hope is killing me [00:23.17] [00:25.17]My dream is to become hopeless [00:26.24] [00:27.67]When you're hopeless you don't care [00:28.99]And when you don't care that indifference it makes you attractive [00:31.33] [00:35.30]A ni**a feelin' hopeless [00:36.06] [00:37.98]Who am I to change perception [00:39.36]If a ni**a kill a ni**a he's another statistic [00:41.49]If his skin's a little different they gon' say it was self defense [00:44.14]Ni**a feelin' hopeless [00:45.07] [00:46.86]Starin' at the idiom box riddle me this [00:48.90]If a killer was a ni**a would niggas still really care [00:51.06]Cause niggas worser than Zimmerman livin' life everywhere [00:53.28]Niggas hopeless [00:53.92] [00:56.14]Small niggas with big tools [00:57.51]Couldn't get to Harvard hard work he hard whipped [00:59.66]Cause them hardy hah's and hard nights [01:01.28]Are hard to live through [01:02.33]When you hopeless [01:02.86] [01:04.85]What we gotta do to be winnin' [01:05.84]Cause all the schools gettin' closed [01:07.31]Dribble a little coach shootin' at a foe [01:08.94]Cause they chargin' them to hoop at community center [01:11.07]My ni**a hopeless [01:12.15] [01:13.73]25 bands he was shootin' not a damn givin' [01:15.72]Cousin threw a couple grand at some dancers [01:17.58]Throwin' back their fat a** is my glasses confused [01:19.75]We're the hopeless [01:20.40] [01:22.48]America's dream and nightmare in the same being [01:24.79]Even when being polite here [01:26.12]Niggas try to bring me down the life of a pioneer [01:28.28]Lightyears worth of hopeless [01:29.57] [01:31.42]Celebrities celebratin' disgust me [01:33.38]The cerebellum invaded with all these fresh things on [01:35.59]Watchin' Love and Hip Hop Atlanta as we speak [01:37.61]Ni**a we hopeless [01:38.62] [01:39.83]Okay the Steebie show is on [01:41.47]And so my broad rollin' w**d now she's mad at me [01:43.63]Cause she seen a scene with Rasheeda baby father [01:46.15]Said You niggas all hopeless [01:47.30]Got a pocket full of lint again but it make no difference to me [01:50.38] [01:51.70]Fallin' out with my friends again but it make no difference to me [01:54.88]Goddamn I'm hopeless [01:59.06] [01:59.79]Oh man I'm hopeless [02:03.18] [02:05.16]Got no gas in my tank again but it make no difference to me [02:08.24] [02:09.50]Overdraft at the bank again but it make no difference to me [02:12.98]Goddamn I'm hopeless [02:14.36] [02:17.41]Lord knows I'm hopeless [02:20.44] [02:21.68]Still I pray [02:22.17]Ni**a feelin' hopeless [02:23.29] [02:24.59]Like a Penny with a hole in it [02:26.03]We as empty as a corazon of a widow [02:28.30]From a soul that she don't know when he's comin' home [02:30.23]He don't got no limit hopeless [02:31.75] [02:33.76]What's a purple heart to a hurt head [02:35.19] [02:35.76]He done done 12 years he was told 6 [02:37.39]Prolly go back in a minute ain't sh*t here [02:39.87]Ni**a so hopeless [02:40.89] [02:42.68]Thoughts are ravaging in the whole crib [02:44.60]Now he post-traumatic and always on the edge [02:46.66]On the pills some bills two kids one leg [02:48.52]Ni**a so hopeless [02:49.55] [02:51.48]A lot of black cops always clap back [02:52.89] [02:53.51]And some foul white cops always on deck [02:55.42]Playin' race card guarantee you'll make a blackjack [02:57.59]Ni**a so hopeless [02:58.34] [03:00.27]Cause we ain't 'posed to ever have sh*t [03:02.42]And we ain't vocal as rap [03:04.10]Niggas cause we don't mope unless we trap hits [03:06.66]Ni**a hopeless [03:08.63] [03:09.31]Look at what I go through to show you [03:11.04]Niggas respect money money respect power [03:12.99]And power we never given unless [03:14.38]A ni**a catch shoot or dribble [03:15.69]We are hopeless [03:16.40] [03:17.60]Nah you ain't out here for the culture [03:19.97]You finna riot without a purpose [03:21.65]You ain't a mothaf**kin' rider you a f**kin' token posin' [03:24.56]Ni**a hopeless [03:25.00] [03:25.80]Of course not literal [03:27.21]But why complain about the man [03:28.45]When a ni**a with my skin [03:29.45]The same problems with them I had [03:31.07]Is out there killin' niggas too [03:32.76]Eat your food ni**a [03:33.74] [03:51.87]Got a pocket full of lint again but it make no difference to me [03:54.73] [03:56.13]Fallin' out with my friends again but it make no difference to me [03:59.40]Goddamn I'm hopeless [04:03.16] [04:04.09]Oh man I'm hopeless [04:07.02] [04:09.66]Got no gas in my tank again but it make no difference to me [04:12.62] [04:13.90]Overdraft at the bank again but it make no difference to me [04:17.38]Goddamn I'm hopeless [04:20.28] [04:21.83]Lord knows I'm hopeless [04:26.08]Still I pray