Hope Full

Nobody lets beats play anymore

Know what I mean?

They always just start rappin and shit like

Remember when they used to let it just play you could catch a feel or whatever...

[Chorus]

Look me in my eyes for a minute

I ain’t cried in a minute

I been dyin on the inside

I been tryin just to get us

Like my eyes got this tint

It’s really hard for me to just smile

Lookin round just make me sad

They don’t get my frown and that shit just make me mad

I never stay down when life kick me in my ass

Cause shit ain’t ever hopeless

But I wonder should I hope less?

[Verse 1]

What’s the cost of payin attention?

Is it too much to be free?

Walk in the room like ye high sway all the tension

But none of my answers definite

Playin lots the same notes

Think I need some new chords

Doin lotta maintenance think I need some new chores

Think I need to do mine

And you need to do yours

Makin sure we all win

Maybe we should lose more

Maybe we would learn then

Maybe we should try shit

I don’t want the love if it’s on some one-time shit

I ain’t really hear this beat until the sunlight hit

I be scared that I’ll never be on the run height shit

Sometimes it’s just time for a change

I wish I could do the world, but I’ll start with me

And no matter how well the music age

What’s it mean if I never find harmony?

[Chorus]

Look me in my eyes for a minute

I ain’t cried in a minute

I been dyin on the inside

I been tryin just to get us

Like my eyes got this tint

It’s really hard for me to just smile

Lookin round just make me sad

They don’t get my frown and that shit just make me mad

I never stay down when life kick me in my ass

Cause shit ain’t ever hopeless

But I wonder should I hope less?

[Verse 2: Ricky Motional]

I’m boutta hit L.E.S. wit my final check

Shit I just got a letter from the I.R.S

Philosophy with that on Clinton’s Harlem office

They gon have to get through many brothas  just to get to me

If you tryna reach me then it’s better not to message me

A flair or the bat signal function more effectively

Anything but that I really hate my Jack and all these stupid social obligations that yall have for me to keep it packed

Bun tied underneath my Yankee cap

My city wit me everywhere I go

Overshield for phony shit to which we be exposed

Ex says she want nothin to do wit me no more

But still posts pictures in my clothes

Common sense erodes, enough of that shit

Let me light the pack a bowl of that

And plus a bowl of Apple Jacks

A perfect stack

My grandma tried to say I need a new distraction

One that don’t involve consumption, numbin pain or bein passive

All that on my body’s taxin

Told her I might make a switch

I ain’t make a promise cause I like my nose the way it is

Maybe I could go from toy to boy soon

See what life is kinda like

Til then I’ll be overdosed on Mike and Ike’s shit I just hope that

[Chorus]

Look me in my eyes for a minute

I ain’t cried in a minute

I been dyin on the inside

I been tryin just to get us

It’s like my eyes got this tint

It’s really hard for me to just smile

Lookin round just make me sad

They don’t get my frown and that shit just make me mad

I never stay down when life kick me in my ass

Cause shit ain’t ever hopeless

But I wonder should I hope less?