Wale ft. J.Cole - The Pessimist (Lyrics)

Jerry: Oh so there's still hope?

George: 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]

A nigga feelin' hopeless

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

Starin' at the idiom 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 [?] are hard nights

Are hard to live through when you're 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' in the hoop, [?]

My nigga, hopeless

25 bands, he was shootin' out of 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

Celebrities celebratin' disgust me

The cerebellum invaded with all these fresh things

Watchin' Love and Hip Hop Atlanta as we speak

Nigga we hopeless

Okay is [?]

They said my broad rollin' weed now she's mad at me

Cause she seen a scene with Rasheeda [?]

[Hook: J Cole]

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, hopeless

Oh man I'm hopeless, 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, hopeless

Lord knows I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless

But still I pray

[Verse 2: Wale]

Nigga feelin' hopeless

Like a penny with a hole in it

We as empty as a cortisone 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 only on the edge

On the pills, some bills, some kids who won't love

Nigga so hopeless

A lot of black cops always clap back

There's 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 ever have shit

And we ain't vocal as rap

Niggas cause we don't mope unless we try

Nigga hopeless

Look at what I go through to show you

Niggas respect money and money respect power

And power, we never givin' 'em less

A nigga catch, shoot and dribble, we the 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 with my skin

The same problems with them I had

Is out there killin' niggas too?

Eat your food, nigga

[Hook: J Cole]

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, hopeless

Oh man I'm hopeless, 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, hopeless

Lord knows I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, hopeless

But still I pray