[ti:The Pessimist]
[ar:Wale]
[al:The Album About Nothing]
[by:]
[offset:0]
[00:01.24]The Pessimist - Wale
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[00:19.32]Oh so there's still hope
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[00:21.12]I don't want hope hope is killing me
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[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
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[00:35.30]A nigga feelin' hopeless
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[00:37.98]Who am I to change perception
[00:39.36]If a nigga kill a nigga he's another statistic
[00:41.49]If his skin's a little different they gon' say it was self defense
[00:44.14]Nigga feelin' hopeless
[00:45.07]
[00:46.86]Starin' at the idiom box riddle me this
[00:48.90]If a killer was a nigga would niggas still really care
[00:51.06]Cause niggas worser than Zimmerman livin' life everywhere
[00:53.28]Niggas hopeless
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[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
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[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 nigga 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 ass is my glasses confused
[01:19.75]We're the hopeless
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[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
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[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]Nigga we hopeless
[01:38.62]
[01:39.83]Okay the Steebie show is on
[01:41.47]And so my broad rollin' weed 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
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[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
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[02:17.41]Lord knows I'm hopeless
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[02:21.68]Still I pray
[02:22.17]Nigga 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
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[02:35.76]He done done 12 years he was told 6
[02:37.39]Prolly go back in a minute ain't shit here
[02:39.87]Nigga 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]Nigga so hopeless
[02:49.55]
[02:51.48]A lot of black cops always clap back
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[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]Nigga so hopeless
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[03:00.27]Cause we ain't 'posed to ever have shit
[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]Nigga hopeless
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[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 nigga 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 mothafuckin' rider you a fuckin' token posin'
[03:24.56]Nigga 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 nigga 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 nigga
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[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
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[04:21.83]Lord knows I'm hopeless
[04:26.08]Still I pray