[00:19.97]I wish the way I was living could stop  serving rocks
[00:21.88]Knowing the cops is hot when I'm on the block and I
[00:24.27]Wish my brother woulda made bail
[00:25.69]So I won't have to travel 6 hours to see him in jail and I
[00:28.59]Wish that my grandmother wasn't sick
[00:30.25]Or that we would just come up on
[00:31.57]Some stacks and hit a lick and I
[00:33.06]Wish my homies wouldn't have to suffer
[00:35.06]When the streets get the upper hand on us
[00:36.79]And we lose a brother and I
[00:38.05]Wish I could go deep in a zone
[00:39.34]And lift the spirits of the world
[00:40.45]With the words with in this song and I
[00:42.16]Wish I could teach a soul to fly
[00:43.70]Take away the pain out cha hands
[00:44.81]And help you hold them high and I
[00:46.05]Wish my hommie Butch was still alive
[00:47.86]And on the day of his death
[00:49.42]We had never took that ride and I
[00:50.94]Wish God could protect us from the wrong
[00:52.82]So that all the soldiers
[00:53.73]That were sent over seas come home
[00:55.07]We will never break  though
[00:56.50]They devastate  we shall motivate
[00:57.98]And we gotta pray  all we got is faith
[00:59.89]Instead of thinking about who gonna die to day
[01:01.76]The Lord is gonna help you feel better
[01:03.16]So you ain't gotta cry today
[01:04.42]Sit at the light so long
[01:05.59]And then we gotta move straight forward
[01:07.34]'Cuz we fight so strong
[01:08.20]So when right go wrong
[01:10.09]Just say a little prayer  get ya money man
[01:12.26]Life go on  let's hope
[01:13.16]Though I'm hopeful  yes  I am hopeful for today
[01:16.76]Take this music and use it  let it take you away
[01:21.22]And be hopeful  hopeful and He'll make a way
[01:25.67]I know it ain't easy but that's okay  'cause we hopeful
[01:31.92]I wish that you could show some love
[01:33.16]Instead of hatin' so much
[01:33.99]When you see some other people comin' up
[01:35.40]I wish I could teach the world to sing
[01:37.16]Watch the music and have
[01:38.44]'Em trippin' of the joy I bring  shit
[01:40.51]I wish that we could hold hands
[01:41.91]Listen instead of dissin' lessons from a grown man and I
[01:44.63]Wish the families that lack  but got love  get some stacks
[01:47.22]Brand new shack and a lack that's on dubs and I
[01:49.51]Wish we could keep achieving wonders
[01:50.81]See the vision of the world through
[01:52.23]The eyes of Stevie Wonder  you feel me
[01:53.83]And I hope all the kids eat
[01:55.32]And don't nobody in my family see six feet  ya dig
[01:57.88]I hope them mothers stand strong
[01:59.65]You can make it whether
[02:00.67]You wit' him or your man's gone and I
[02:02.36]Wish I could give every celly some commissary
[02:04.68]And the po po bring the heat on
[02:06.05]Them priest like they did R Kelly and I
[02:07.63]Wish that DOC could scream again
[02:08.92]And bullets could reverse so Pac
[02:10.08]And Biggie breath again  shit
[02:11.18]
[02:12.07]Then one day they could speak again
[02:13.41]I wish that we only saw good news
[02:14.83]Every time we look at CNN
[02:16.05]I wish that we could never get the blues
[02:17.88]Wish I could bring back the people that died at E2
[02:20.08]I wish that we could walk a path  stay doin' the right thing
[02:22.49]Hustle hard  so the kids maintain up in the game  let's hope
[02:24.81]Though I'm hopeful  yes  I am hopeful for today
[02:28.18]Take this music and use it  let it take you away
[02:32.88]And be hopeful  hopeful and He'll make a way
[02:37.48]I know it ain't easy but that's okay  'cause we hopeful
[02:43.30]Wish the earth wasn't so apocalyptic
[02:44.61]I try to spread my message to the world
[02:46.42]The best way I can give it
[02:47.62]We can make it always so optimistic
[02:48.89]If you don't listen gotta live my life the best way I can live it
[02:51.99]I pray for justice when we go to court
[02:53.79]Wish it was all good so the country never even went to war
[02:56.10]Why can't we kick it and just get em on
[02:58.33]And in the famous words of Mr King
[02:59.82]"Why can't we all just get along"
[03:01.15]Or we can find a better way to shop and please and I
[03:03.48]Hope we find a better way to cop a keys and I
[03:05.65]Wish everybody would just stop and freeze
[03:07.18]And ask way are we fulfillin' these downfalls and prophecies
[03:09.97]You can be wrong if it's you doubting
[03:11.74]With the faith of a mustard seed you can move mountains
[03:13.98]And only the heavenly father and ease the hurt
[03:16.20]Just let it go and keep prayin' on
[03:17.71]Your knees in church and let's hope
[03:19.07]Though I'm hopeful  yes  I am hopeful for today
[03:22.12]Take this music and use it  let it take you away
[03:26.67]And be hopeful  hopeful and He'll make a way
[03:31.31]I know it ain't easy but that's okay
[03:35.77]Though I'm hopeful  yes  I am hopeful for today
[03:40.29]Take this music and use it  let it take you away
[03:44.78]And be hopeful  hopeful and He'll make a way
[03:49.23]I know it ain't easy but that's okay  'cause we hopeful