The Pessimist

[Intro: Jerry Seinfeld & George Costanza]

Oh so there's still hope?

I don't want hope, hope is killing me

My dream is to become hopeless

When you're hopeless, you don't care

And when you don't care, that indifference

It makes you attractive

[Verse 1: Wale]

Uh, a nigga feelin' hopeless

Uh, who am I to change perception?

If a nigga kill a nigga he's another statistic

If his skin's a little different, they gon' say it was self-defense

Nigga feelin' hopeless

Uh, starin' at the idiot box, riddle me this

If a killer was a nigga would niggas still really care

Cause niggas worser than Zimmerman livin' life everywhere

Niggas hopeless

Small niggas with big tools

Couldn't get to Harvard, hard work, he hard whipped

Cause them hardy har's and hard nights are hard to live through

When you hopeless

What we gotta do to be winnin'? Cause all the schools gettin' closed

Dribble a little, coach shootin' at a foe

Cause they chargin' them to hoop at community center

My nigga hopeless

25 bands he was shootin', not a damn givin'

Cousin threw a couple grand at some dancers

Throwin' back their fat ass, is my glasses confused?

We're the hopeless

America's dream and nightmare in the same being

Even when being polite here

Niggas try to bring me down, the life of a pioneer

Lightyears worth of hopeless

Celebrity celebrating disgusts me

The cerebellum invaded with all these fresh things on

Watchin' "Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta" as we speak

Nigga we hopeless

Okay, the Steebie show is on

And so my broad rollin' weed now she's mad at me

Cause she seen a scene with Rasheeda baby father

Said, "You niggas all hopeless"

[Chorus: J. Cole]

Got a pocket full of lint again but it make no difference to me

Fallin' out with my friends again but it make no difference to me

Goddamn I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless

Aw man, I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless

Got no gas in my tank again but it make no difference to me

Overdraft at the bank again but it make no difference to me

Goddamn I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless

Lord knows I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, still I pray

[Verse 2: Wale]

Nigga feelin' hopeless

Like a penny with a hole in it

We as empty as a corazón of a widow

From a soul that she don't know when he's comin' 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 6

Prolly go back in a minute, ain't shit here

Nigga so hopeless

Thoughts are ravaging in the whole crib

Now he post-traumatic and always on the edge

On the pills, some bills, two kids, one leg

Nigga so hopeless

A lot of black cops always clap back

And some foul white cops always on deck

Playin' race card, guarantee you'll make a blackjack

Nigga so hopeless

Cause we ain't 'posed to never have shit

And we ain't vocalise rap

Niggas cause we don't promote unless we drop hits

Nigga hopeless

Look, look at what I go through to show you

Niggas respect money, money respect power

And power, we never given unless a nigga catch, shoot or dribble

We are hopeless

Nah, you ain't out here for the culture

You finna riot, without a purpose

You ain't a mothafuckin' rider, you a fuckin' token, posin'

Nigga hopeless, of course not literal

But why complain about The Man when a nigga want my skin?

The same problems with them I had is out there killin' niggas too

Eat your food, nigga...

A nigga feeling hopeless

[Chorus: J. Cole]

Got a pocket full of lint again but it make no difference to me

Fallin' out with my friends again but it make no difference to me

Goddamn I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless

Aw man, I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless

Got no gas in my tank again but it make no difference to me

Overdraft at the bank again but it make no difference to me

Goddamn I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless

Lord knows I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, still I pray