Find Hope

I, um, you know I feel like this important because people can relate I feel like there's a lot of people out there who feel like They don't, you don't wanna keep going I feel you, I'm there too with you You learn to smile through the pain You learn to trust in the people you love You learn that life will always change And it's okay 'cause even on your best days I understand that it's hard to hold hope (hope) Tears in your eyes, feelin' low, I know it's hard to hold on (on), yeah See if all we truly have is ourselves Why should their opinions weigh you down? Tears runnin' down your cheek until you drown I just pray you find love (love) A love for yourself that's not comparable to anything else Sometimes it's hard to cry for help But it don't matter what they say, just have hope in yourself I might not feel the same pain that you felt But I know what it's like to be so damaged you start hurtin' yourself See, I'm a man, not perfect A stone stole from worthless I came up from a city where they say we have no purpose And funeral's the only time we ever visit churches We grow up without no one, there's a world without this hurtin', all this pain They love to blame our generation Too many friends I had to bury over confrontations We all lost, deep in our hearts, we need some liberation And free our children locked in cages, and it's freedom nation Lord, if you hear me, save my soul when I pass on from this life Hear my pain not my sins, I know I try to do it right For the kids with their ambitions Dreamin' bigger than they're told I hope they see that I did it And know they can do it if they find hope (hope), yeah Tears in their eyes, feelin' low I know it's hard to hold on (on), yeah But you can find hope It's so like amazing, it makes me so grateful that I'm still able to like Even after bein' stabbed, even after bein' shot Like I have no breathing problem That I'm able to stand and And I'm able to like, to look at you without anything Like really wrong It just made me appreciate, you know, life 'Cause I was only 15 when I almost left this Earth My momma's cryin' tears in the hospital, but still she had hope (hope) Tears in her eyes, cryin' God, beggin' me to hold on (on), yeah And I'll never forget the way it felt In and out of consciousness, a voice cryin' for help I didn't wanna leave this soon I had to tell myself to have hope (hope), yeah But I was bleedin' from inside Tryin' not to go, I couldn't breathe, but still I tried All I heard was somethin' tellin' me to stay alive Just have hope (hope), yeah Blood in my eyes, heart slowin' down Tryna hold on (on), hmm I'm only here today because I had hope (because I had hope)