{"id":271,"date":"2024-05-21T19:20:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T09:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poetpaints.xyz\/?p=271"},"modified":"2024-05-21T19:20:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T09:20:03","slug":"hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poetpaints.xyz\/index.php\/2024\/05\/21\/hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"responsive-video\"><iframe title=\"NF - HOPE\" width=\"755\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tsmPCi7NKrg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">Hope<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Yeah, I&#8217;m on my way, I&#8217;m coming<br>Don&#8217;t, don&#8217;t lose faith in me<br>I know you&#8217;ve been waitin&#8217;<br>I know you&#8217;ve been prayin&#8217; for my soul<br>Hope, hope<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirty years you been draggin&#8217; your feet<br>Tellin&#8217; me I&#8217;m the reason we&#8217;re stagnant<br>Thirty years you&#8217;ve been claiming you&#8217;re honest<br>And promising progress, well, where&#8217;s it at?<br>I don&#8217;t want you to feel like a failure (failure)<br>I know this hurts<br>But I gave you your chance to deliver (deliver)<br>Now it&#8217;s my turn<br>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, Nate, you&#8217;ve had a great run<br>But it&#8217;s time to give the people somethin&#8217; different<br>So without further ado, I&#8217;d<br>Like to introduce my<br>(My album, my album, my album, my album, my album, my album, my album)<br>Hope<br>What&#8217;s my definition of success? (Of success)<br>Listening to what your heart says (your heart says)<br>Standing up for what you know is (is) right<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While everybody else is (is)<br>Tucking their tail between their legs (okay)<br>What&#8217;s my definition of success? (Of success)<br><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\"><em>Creating something no one else can (else can)<br>Being brave enough to dream big (big)<br>Grindin&#8217; when you&#8217;re told to just quit (quit)<br>Giving more when you got nothin&#8217; left (left)<\/em><br><\/mark><\/strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">It&#8217;s a person that&#8217;ll take a chance on<\/mark><br>Something they were told could never happen<br>It&#8217;s a person that can see the <strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">bright side<\/mark><\/em><\/strong> through the dark times when there ain&#8217;t one<br>It&#8217;s when someone who ain&#8217;t never had nothin&#8217;<br>Ain&#8217;t afraid to walk away from more profit<br>&#8216;Cause they&#8217;d rather do somethin&#8217; that they really love and take the pay cut<br>It&#8217;s a person that would never waver<br>Or change who they are<br>Just to try and gain some credibility<br>So they could feel accepted by a stranger<br>It&#8217;s a person that can <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\"><em>take the failures in their life and turn them into motivation<\/em><\/mark><\/strong><br>It&#8217;s believing in yourself when no one else does, it&#8217;s amazing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a little bit of faith can do if you don&#8217;t even believe in you<br>Why would you think or expect anybody else that&#8217;s around you to?<br>I done did things that I regret<br>I done said things I can&#8217;t take back<br>Was a lost soul at a crossroad who had no hope but I changed that<br>I spent years of my life holdin&#8217; on to things I never should&#8217;ve kept, full of hatred<br>Years of my life carryin&#8217; a lot of baggage that I should&#8217;ve walked away from<br>Years of my life wishin&#8217; I was someone different, lookin&#8217; for some validation<br>Years of my life tryna fill the void, pretending I was in<br>They get it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">Growing pain&#8217;s a necessary evil<br>Difficult to go through, yes, but beneficial<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><br>Some would say having a mental breakdown is a negative thing<br>Which on one hand, I agree with<br>On the other hand, it was the push I needed<br>To get help and start the healing process, see<br>If I&#8217;d have never hit rock bottom<br>Would I be the person that I am today?<br>I don&#8217;t believe so<br>I&#8217;m a prime example of what happens when you choose to not accept defeat and face your demons<br>Took me thirty years to realize that if you want to get the opportunity<br>To be the greatest version of yourself<br>Sometimes you got to be someone you&#8217;re not to hear the voice of reason<br>Having kids will make you really take a step back and look in the mirror<br>At least for me that&#8217;s what it did, I<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wake up every day and pick my son up, hold him in my arms<br>And let him know he&#8217;s loved (loved)<br>Standing by the window questioning if dad is ever going to show up (up)<br>Isn&#8217;t something he&#8217;s gon&#8217; have to worry about<br>Don&#8217;t get it twisted, that wasn&#8217;t a shot<br>Mama, I forgive you<br>I just don&#8217;t want him to grow up thinkin&#8217; that he&#8217;ll never be enough<br>Thirty years of running, thirty years of searching<br>Thirty years of hurting, thirty years of pain<br>Thirty years of fearful, thirty years of anger<br>Thirty years of empty, thirty years of shame<br>Thirty years of broken, thirty years of anguish<br>Thirty years of hopeless, thirty years of (hey)<br>Thirty years of never, thirty years of maybe<br>Thirty years of later, thirty years of fake<br>Thirty years of hollow, thirty years of sorrow<br>Thirty years of darkness, thirty years of (Nate)<br>Thirty years of baggage, thirty years of sadness<br>Thirty years of stagnant, thirty years of chains<br>Thirty years of anxious, thirty years of suffering<br>Thirty years of torment, thirty years of (wait)<br>Thirty years of bitter, thirty years of lonely<br>Thirty years of pushing everyone away<br>(You&#8217;ll never evolve) I know I can change<br>(We are not enough) we are not the same<br>(You don&#8217;t have the heart) you don&#8217;t have the strength<br>(You don&#8217;t have the will) you don&#8217;t have the faith<br>(You&#8217;ll never be loved, you&#8217;ll never be safe<br>Might as well give up) not running away<br>(You don&#8217;t have the guts) you&#8217;re the one afraid<br><strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">I&#8217;m the one in charge<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><br>I&#8217;m taking the (no)<br>I&#8217;m taking the reigns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope Yeah, I&#8217;m on my way, I&#8217;m comingDon&#8217;t, don&#8217;t lose faith in meI know you&#8217;ve been waitin&#8217;I know you&#8217;ve been prayin&#8217; 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