Hope

[ti:Hope (In the Style of Twista (Karaoke Version Teaching Vocal))] [ar:Karaoke] [al:Karaoke - R&B/Hip-Hop April 2005] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.61]Hope (In the Style of Twista (Karaoke Version Teaching Vocal)) - Karaoke [00:02.99] [00:20.80]I wish the way I was living could stop serving rocks [00:22.73]Knowing the cops is hot when I'm on the block and I [00:24.73] [00:25.39]Wish my brother woulda made bail [00:26.61]So I won't have to travel 6 hours [00:27.98]To see him in jail and I [00:29.09] [00:29.79]Wish that my grandmother wasn't sick [00:31.17]Or that we would just come up on [00:32.44]Some stacks and hit a lick and I [00:34.13]Wish my homies wouldn't have to suffer [00:35.37]When the streets get the upper hand on us [00:37.27]And we lose a brother and I [00:38.33] [00:38.88]Wish I could go deep in a zone [00:40.29]And lift the spirits of the world with [00:41.66]The words with in this song and I [00:43.21]Wish I could teach a soul to fly [00:44.64]Take away the pain out cha hands [00:45.95]And help you hold them high and I [00:47.49]Wish my hommie Butch was still alive [00:48.96]And on the day of his death we had [00:50.48]Never took that ride and I [00:51.58]Wish God could protect us from the wrong [00:53.60]So that all the soldiers that were [00:54.69]Sent over seas come home [00:55.81] [00:56.46]We will never break though they devastate [00:58.09]We shall motivate [00:58.95]And we gotta pray all we got is faith [01:00.82]Instead of thinking about who gonna die to day [01:02.63]The Lord is gonna help you feel better [01:04.09]So you ain't gotta cry today [01:05.34]Sit at the light so long [01:06.76]And then we gotta move straight forward [01:08.25]'Cuz we fight so strong [01:09.13] [01:09.90]So when right go wrong [01:10.73] [01:11.31]Just say a little prayer get you money man [01:13.06]Life go on let's hope [01:14.06]Though I'm hopeful yes I am hopeful for today [01:17.05] [01:17.86]Take this music and use it let it take you away [01:21.48] [01:22.29]And be hopeful hopeful and He'll make a way [01:26.20] [01:26.79]I know it ain't easy but that's okay 'cause we hopeful [01:32.45]I wish that you could show some love [01:33.90]Instead of hatin' so much when you see [01:35.59]Some other people comin' up [01:36.67]I wish I could teach the world to sing [01:38.38]Watch the music and have 'em [01:39.38]Trippin' of the joy I bring [01:40.46] [01:41.50]I wish that we could hold hands [01:42.85]Listen instead of dissin' lessons from a grown man and I [01:44.68] [01:45.50]Wish the families that lack but got love get some stacks [01:48.16]Brand new shack and a lack that's on dubs and I [01:50.00] [01:50.52]Wish we could keep achieving wonders [01:51.91]See the vision of the world through [01:52.99]The eyes of Stevie Wonder you feel me [01:55.07]And I hope all the kids eat [01:56.51]And don't nobody in my family see six feet you dig [01:58.84] [01:59.46]I hope them mothers stand strong [02:00.89]You can make it whether you wit' him or [02:02.41]Your man's gone and I [02:03.76]Wish I could give every celly some commissary [02:05.11]And the po po bring the heat on them [02:06.66]Priest like they did R Kelly and I [02:08.34]Wish that DOC could scream again [02:09.71]And bullets could reverse so Pac and [02:10.97]Biggie breath again [02:11.53] [02:12.94]Then one day they could speak again [02:14.40]I wish that we only saw good news [02:15.72]Every time we look at CNN [02:17.13]I wish that we could never get the blues [02:18.90]Wish I could bring back the people that died at E2 [02:20.99]I wish that we could walk a path stay doin' the right thing [02:23.55]Hustle hard so the kids maintain up in the game [02:25.49]Though I'm hopeful yes I am hopeful for today [02:28.76] [02:29.37]Take this music and use it let it take you away [02:33.38] [02:34.11]And be hopeful hopeful and He'll make a way [02:37.95] [02:38.58]I know it ain't easy but that's okay 'cause we hopeful [02:44.20]Wish the earth wasn't so apocalyptic [02:45.51]I try to spread my message to the world [02:47.28]The best way I can give it [02:48.41]We can make it always so optimistic [02:49.88]If you don't listen gotta live my life [02:51.58]The best way I can live it [02:53.03]I pray for justice when we go to court [02:54.69]Wish it was all good so the country [02:56.23]Never even went to war [02:57.35]Why can't we kick it and just get them on [02:59.05]And in the famous words of Mr King [03:00.67]"Why can't we all just get along" [03:02.06]Or we can find a better way to shop and please and I [03:04.48]Hope we find a better way to cop a keys and I [03:06.72]Wish everybody would just stop and freeze [03:08.06]And ask way are we fulfillin' these downfalls and prophecies [03:10.03] [03:10.73]You can be wrong if it's you doubting [03:12.65]With the faith of a mustard seed you can move mountains [03:14.86]And only the heavenly father and ease the hurt [03:17.06]Just let it go and keep prayin' on [03:18.53]Your knees in church and let's hope [03:20.08]Though I'm hopeful yes I am hopeful for today [03:22.96] [03:23.49]Take this music and use it let it take you away [03:27.20] [03:27.71]And be hopeful hopeful and He'll make a way [03:32.23]I know it ain't easy but that's okay [03:36.26] [03:37.23]Though I'm hopeful yes I am hopeful for today [03:40.71] [03:41.32]Take this music and use it let it take you away [03:44.97] [03:45.69]And be hopeful hopeful and He'll make a way [03:49.68] [03:50.19]I know it ain't easy but that's okay 'cause we hopeful