Wale, J. Cole - The Pessimist lyrics

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
It makes you attractive

Uh, a nigga feelin' hopeless
Uh, 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
Uh, starin' at the idiot 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 hardy har's and hard nights
Are hard to live through when you 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' them to
Hoop at community center my nigga hopeless
25 bands he was shootin', not a 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
Celebrity celebrating disgusts me
The cerebellum invaded with all
These fresh things on
Watchin' "Love and Hip Hop:
Atlanta" as we speak nigga 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 niggas all hopeless"

Got a pocket full of lint again but
It make no difference to me
Fallin' out with my friends again but
It make no difference to me
Goddamn I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless
Hopeless
Aw man, I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless
Hopeless got no gas in my tank again but
It make no difference to me
Overdraft at the bank again but it
Make no difference to me
Goddamn I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless
Hopeless lord knows I'm hopeless
Hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, still I pray

Nigga feelin' hopeless
Like a penny with a hole in it
We as empty as a corazón 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 on the edge
On the pills, some bills, two kids, one leg
Nigga so hopeless
A lot of black cops always clap back
And 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 never have shit
And we ain't vocalise rap
Niggas cause we don't promote
Unless we drop hit's nigga hopeless
Look, look at what I go through to show you
Niggas respect money, money respect power
And power, we never given
Unless a nigga 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 mothafuckin' rider
You a fuckin' token, posin'
Nigga hopeless, of course not literal
But why complain about The Man when
A nigga want my skin?
The same problems with them I had
Is out there killin' niggas too
Eat your food, nigga
A nigga feeling hopeless

Got a pocket full of lint again but
It make no difference to me
Fallin' out with my friends again but
It make no difference to me
Goddamn I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless
Hopeless
Aw man, I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless
Hopeless got no gas in my tank again but
It make no difference to me
Overdraft at the bank again but it
Make no difference to me
Goddamn I'm hopeless, hopeless, hopeless
Hopeless lord knows I'm hopeless
Hopeless, hopeless, hopeless, still I pray