[00:00:00] Hope (DJ Mitsu Remix) - Pete Philly [00:00:21] Sometimes my hope slips away [00:00:22] I go through the day [00:00:24] Without a way to see passed the decay [00:00:25] To say a better day is coming got me running my mind [00:00:28] Wondering if I'm cunning enough to find [00:00:30] A new pattern of though designed [00:00:31] So I can deal with this land of concrete [00:00:34] Cause them facts are I'll yo we're facing defeat from the trees to the [00:00:37] Sees to the seeds of the ghetto [00:00:39] The fleas on the dogs back have already settled in [00:00:42] Won't allow no meddeling cause they shoot [00:00:45] Do anything for the loot [00:00:47] Wicked politicians making wicked decisions [00:00:49] Straight lying to the public so they can begin another mission of war [00:00:52] Man eyes are sore [00:00:53] Shit's hardcore [00:00:54] We can all make a change what we waiting for [00:00:57] There's a million other people who feel like I feel [00:01:00] Too many cats are ending up with the raw deal for real [00:01:02] But I read a boek take a look [00:01:05] Put it all in perspective ignore the crooks [00:01:07] Who be rocking their politricks while running for president [00:01:11] If we want their asses kicked then let's set a precedent [00:01:13] See it's not you versus me [00:01:16] But it's you and me versus the war-industry [00:01:18] If you're asking me what it is that we can do [00:01:20] Agaist idiots like G W it's follow through [00:01:23] It's what makes you cope [00:01:25] It's what makes you grow [00:01:26] It's what makes you go against the grain [00:01:28] When they tell you no [00:01:30] But you've got to show [00:01:31] Your friends and foes it's time for change [00:01:34] It's what makes you cope [00:01:35] It's what makes you grow [00:01:37] It's whats makes you go against the grain [00:01:39] But they can't tell you no [00:01:41] Because now you know the healing when you get hope [00:01:44] I'm holding on like someone pushed me over the edge [00:01:47] So sometimes when I rhyme it just go overyour head [00:01:49] I try to bring it down to earth wothout sounding berserk [00:01:52] It's for the people high and mighty and them down in the dirt [00:01:54] Put it work like I'm nickle and diming [00:01:58] Standing on the corner religious like a shaman I aint thicking with [00:02:00] The punchlines while they tickle your spine [00:02:01] They picket the line [00:02:03] And I'll never font for you you aint getting consigment [00:02:04] People hope to get signed but to they suprise [00:02:07] The industry falling down right infront of they eye [00:02:10] On my block brothers don't live brothers survive [00:02:13] Mothers pray through the night and hope they son is alive [00:02:16] Check the stoop then the corner then he hospital [00:02:18] The citymorgue matter of fact shit [00:02:20] I got to go [00:02:21] To my son's school [00:02:22] Where they call me brother Kweli [00:02:24] No time for crying [00:02:24] Waiting and hoping like Buddy Holy [00:02:26] It's what makes you cope [00:02:27] It's what makes you grow [00:02:29] It's what makes you go against the grain [00:02:31] When they tell you no [00:02:32] But you've got to show [00:02:34] Your friends and foes it's time for change [00:02:36] It's what makes you cope [00:02:38] It's what makes you grow [00:02:39] It's whats makes you go against the grain [00:02:41] But they can't tell you no [00:02:43] Because now you know the healing when you get hope [00:02:47] I'm hoping for better days and better ways to express [00:02:49] I'm hoping for spiritual growth and some mental progress [00:02:52] Hoping I'll won't be choking when it's time to take the test of the time [00:02:55] As I'm standing in the limelight and rhyme [00:02:57] Will I shine will I be remembered as a person who took the time and [00:03:00] Opportunity to find the goodness of his own kind 404

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