The Pessimist (feat. J. Cole)

(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 makes you attractive)

A **** feelin' hopeless

Who am I to change perception?

If a **** kill a **** he's another statistic

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

**** feelin' hopeless

Starin' at the idiom box, riddle me this

If a killer was a **** would **** still really care?

'Cause **** worser than Zimmerman livin' life everywhere

**** hopeless

Small **** with big tools

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

'Cause them Hardy-hars and hard nights

Are hard to live through

When you're hopeless

What we gotta do to be winning?

'Cause all the schools gettin' closed

Dribble a little, coach, shootin' at a foe

'Cause they chargin' them to hoop at a community center

My ****, hopeless

Twenty-five bands, he was shootin' not a damn giving

Cousin threw a couple grand at some dancer

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

We're the hopeless

America's dream and nightmare in the same being

Even when being polite here

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

Lightyears worth of hopeless

Celebrities celebratin' disgust me

The cerebellum invaded with all these fresh things on

Watching Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta as we speak

****, 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 **** all hopeless

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

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

Goddamn I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless

Oh man, I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless

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

Overdraft at the bank again, but it makes no difference to me

Goddamn I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless

Lord knows I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless

Still I pray

**** feelin' hopeless

Like a penny with a hole in it

We as empty as a corazon 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 twelve years, he was told six

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

**** 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

**** so hopeless

A lot of black cops always clap back

And some foul white cops always on desk

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

**** so hopeless

'Cause we ain't supposed to ever have shit

And we ain't vocal as rap

**** 'cause we don't mope unless we trap hits

**** hopeless

Look at what I go through to show you

**** respect money, money respect power

Power we never given unless

A **** 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 motherfucking rider, you a fucking token, posing

**** hopeless

Of course not literal

But why complain about the man

When a **** with my skin

The same problems with them I had

Is out there killin' **** too?

Eat your food, ****

A **** feelin' hopeless

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

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

Goddamn I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless

Oh man, I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless

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

Overdraft at the bank again, but it makes no difference to me

Goddamn I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless

Lord knows I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless

Still I pray