[00:00.000] 作词 : Jermaine Cole/Olubowale Akintimehin/Osinachi Nwaneri
[00:00.157] 作曲 : Jermaine Cole/Olubowale Akintimehin/Osinachi Nwaneri
[00:00.314]The Pessimist -Wale 、J.Cole
[00:19.323]Oh so there's still hope
[00:21.123]I don't want hope hope is killing me
[00:25.173]My dream is to become hopeless
[00:27.673]When you're hopeless you don't care
[00:28.993]And when you don't care that indifference it makes you attractive
[00:35.301]A ni**a feelin'hopeless
[00:37.980]Who am I to change perception
[00:39.369]If a ni**a kill a ni**a he's another statistic
[00:41.499]If his skin's a little different they gon'say it was self defense
[00:44.146]Ni**a feelin'hopeless
[00:46.865]Starin'at the idiom box riddle me this
[00:48.905]If a killer was a ni**a would ni**as still really care
[00:51.63]Cause ni**as worser than Zimmerman livin'life everywhere
[00:53.282]Ni**as hopeless
[00:56.142]Small ni**as with big tools
[00:57.511]Couldn't get to Harvard hard work he hard whipped
[00:59.668]Cause them hardy hah's and hard nights
[01:01.288]Are hard to live through
[01:02.337]When you hopeless
[01:04.857]What we gotta do to be winnin'
[01:05.847]Cause all the schools gettin'closed
[01:07.316]Dribble a little coach shootin'at a foe
[01:08.944]Cause they chargin'them to hoop at community center
[01:11.74]My ni**a hopeless
[01:13.733]25bands he was shootin'not a damn givin'
[01:15.722]Cousin threw a couple grand at some dancers
[01:17.581]Throwin'back their fat a**is my glasses confused
[01:19.759]We're the hopeless
[01:22.489]America's dream and nightmare in the same being
[01:24.799]Even when being polite here
[01:26.128]Ni**as try to bring me down the life of a pioneer
[01:28.288]Lightyears worth of hopeless
[01:31.428]Celebrities celebratin'disgust me
[01:33.388]The cerebellum invaded with all these fresh things on
[01:35.597]Watchin'Love and Hip Hop Atlanta as we speak
[01:37.617]Ni**a we hopeless
[01:39.836]Okay the Steebie show is on
[01:41.475]And so my broad rollin'w**d now she's mad at me
[01:43.634]Cause she seen a scene with Rasheeda baby father
[01:46.152]Said You ni**as all hopeless
[01:47.302]Got a pocket full of lint again but it make no difference to me
[01:51.702]Fallin'out with my friends again but it make no difference to me
[01:54.881]Goddamn I'm hopeless
[01:59.791]Oh man I'm hopeless
[02:05.161]Got no gas in my tank again but it make no difference to me
[02:09.501]Overdraft at the bank again but it make no difference to me
[02:12.981]Goddamn I'm hopeless
[02:17.411]Lord knows I'm hopeless
[02:21.681]Still I pray
[02:22.170]Ni**a feelin'hopeless
[02:24.590]Like a Penny with a hole in it
[02:26.39]We as empty as a corazon of a widow
[02:28.308]From a soul that she don't know when he's comin'home
[02:30.237]He don't got no limit hopeless
[02:33.766]What's a purple heart to a hurt head
[02:35.766]He done done 12years he was told 6
[02:37.394]Prolly go back in a minute ain't sh*t here
[02:39.874]Ni**a so hopeless
[02:42.684]Thoughts are ravaging in the whole crib
[02:44.604]Now he post-traumatic and always on the edge
[02:46.663]On the pills some bills two kids one leg
[02:48.521]Ni**a so hopeless
[02:51.480]A lot of black cops always clap back
[02:53.510]And some foul white cops always on deck
[02:55.429]Playin'race card guarantee you'll make a blackjack
[02:57.598]Ni**a so hopeless
[03:00.278]Cause we ain't 'posed to ever have sh*t
[03:02.428]And we ain't vocal as rap
[03:04.108]Ni**as cause we don't mope unless we trap hits
[03:06.668]Ni**a hopeless
[03:09.317]Look at what I go through to show you
[03:11.47]Ni**as respect money money respect power
[03:12.997]And power we never given unless
[03:14.387]A ni**a catch shoot or dribble
[03:15.697]We are hopeless
[03:17.607]Nah you ain't out here for the culture
[03:19.977]You finna riot without a purpose
[03:21.657]You ain't a mothaf**kin'rider you a f**kin'token posin'
[03:24.565]Ni**a hopeless
[03:25.805]Of course not literal
[03:27.214]But why complain about the man
[03:28.454]When a ni**a with my skin
[03:29.453]The same problems with them I had
[03:31.72]Is out there killin'ni**as too
[03:32.761]Eat your food ni**a
[03:51.874]Got a pocket full of lint again but it make no difference to me
[03:56.134]Fallin'out with my friends again but it make no difference to me
[03:59.403]Goddamn I'm hopeless
[04:04.92]Oh man I'm hopeless
[04:09.661]Got no gas in my tank again but it make no difference to me
[04:13.900]Overdraft at the bank again but it make no difference to me
[04:17.389]Goddamn I'm hopeless
[04:21.839]Lord knows I'm hopeless
[04:26.89]Still I pray