Hope (DJ Mitsu Remix,Album version)-Pete Philly/Perquisite

[ti:Hope (DJ Mitsu Remix)] [ar:Pete Philly] [al:Remindstate] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hope (DJ Mitsu Remix,Album version) - Pete Philly/Perquisite [00:21.15]Sometimes my hope slips away [00:22.67]I go through the day [00:24.16]Without a way to see passed the decay [00:25.72]To say a better day is coming got me running my mind [00:28.59]Wondering if I'm cunning enough to find [00:30.40]A new pattern of though designed [00:31.53]So I can deal with this land of concrete [00:34.08]Cause them facts are I'll yo we're facing defeat from the trees to the [00:37.53]Sees to the seeds of the ghetto [00:39.53]The fleas on the dogs back have already settled in [00:41.34] [00:42.65]Won't allow no meddeling cause they shoot [00:44.15] [00:45.21]Do anything for the loot [00:46.08] [00:47.20]Wicked politicians making wicked decisions [00:48.51] [00:49.33]Straight lying to the public so they can begin another mission of war [00:52.40] [00:52.96]Man eyes are sore [00:53.77]Sh*t's hardcore [00:54.58]We can all make a change what we waiting for [00:57.47]There's a million other people who feel like I feel [01:00.09]Too many cats are ending up with the raw deal for real [01:02.77]But I read a boek take a look [01:05.52]Put it all in perspective ignore the crooks [01:07.52]Who be rocking their politricks while running for president [01:10.26] [01:11.01]If we want their asses kicked then let's set a precedent [01:13.63]See it's not you versus me [01:16.00]But it's you and me versus the war-industry [01:18.56]If you're asking me what it is that we can do [01:20.97]Agaist idiots like G W it's follow through [01:23.96]It's what makes you cope [01:25.15]It's what makes you grow [01:26.40]It's what makes you go against the grain [01:28.95]When they tell you no [01:30.39]But you've got to show [01:31.76]Your friends and foes it's time for change [01:34.07]It's what makes you cope [01:35.63]It's what makes you grow [01:37.00]It's what's makes you go against the grain [01:39.33]But they can't tell you no [01:41.14]Because now you know the healing when you get hope [01:43.46] [01:44.59]I'm holding on like someone pushed me over the edge [01:47.16]So sometimes when I rhyme it just go overyour head [01:49.80]I try to bring it down to earth wothout sounding berserk [01:52.56]It's for the people high and mighty and them down in the dirt [01:54.93]Put it work like I'm nickle and diming [01:56.85] [01:58.35]Standing on the corner religious like a shaman I ain't thicking with [02:00.61]The punchlines while they tickle your spine [02:01.73]They picket the line [02:03.00]And I'll never font for you you ain't getting consigment [02:04.80]People hope to get signed but to they suprise [02:07.99]The industry falling down right infront of they eye [02:10.68]On my block brothers don't live brothers survive [02:13.16]Mothers pray through the night and hope they son is alive [02:16.03]Check the stoop then the corner then he hospital [02:18.47]The citymorgue matter of fact sh*t [02:20.15]I got to go [02:21.15]To my son's school [02:22.52]Where they call me brother Kweli [02:24.02]No time for crying [02:24.85]Waiting and hoping like Buddy Holy [02:26.72]It's what makes you cope [02:27.84]It's what makes you grow [02:29.10]It's what makes you go against the grain [02:31.40]When they tell you no [02:32.84]But you've got to show [02:34.36]Your friends and foes it's time for change [02:36.55]It's what makes you cope [02:38.11]It's what makes you grow [02:39.42]It's what's makes you go against the grain [02:41.43] [02:41.98]But they can't tell you no [02:43.47]Because now you know the healing when you get hope [02:45.78] [02:47.29]I'm hoping for better days and better ways to express [02:49.59]I'm hoping for spiritual growth and some mental progress [02:51.52] [02:52.46]Hoping I'll won't be choking when it's time to take the test of the time [02:55.45]As I'm standing in the limelight and rhyme [02:57.90]Will I shine will I be remembered as a person who took the time and [03:00.67]Opportunity to find the goodness of his own kind [03:03.31]The kindness of this mankind [03:04.24]The kind that makes the cynic in me just relax and unwind [03:06.69]It's the state of mind you can find me in [03:09.33]When I'm kicking back and I'm chilling [03:10.76]Lookin at playing childeren impressive buildings [03:12.28]And I'm thinking that we more that the money hungry idiots [03:15.04]Mass-marketing cats claim we be [03:17.84]Man they can't get whit us it's the fuss of living [03:20.03]Looking for a balance between taking an giving and making a living [03:23.59]Whitout making a pre-emptive killing sh*t has go to stop [03:26.64]I hope we'll find the revolution back in hiphop [03:28.33]Back in hiphop [03:29.51]Back in hiphop [03:30.64]Back in hiphop [03:31.95] [03:32.73]Back in hiphop [03:34.11]Back in hiphop [03:35.48]Back in hiphop [03:36.85]Back in hiphop [03:38.16]Back in hiphop [03:38.91] [03:50.02]It's what makes you cope [03:51.33]It's what makes you grow [03:52.59]It's what makes you go against the grain [03:54.96]When they tell you no [03:56.60]But you've got to show [03:57.85]Your friends and foes it's time for change [03:59.68] [04:00.24]It's what makes you cope [04:01.81]It's what makes you grow [04:03.19]It's what's makes you go against the grain [04:05.32]But they can't tell you no [04:06.95]But you've got to show [04:08.38]Your friends and foes it's time for change [04:10.75]It's what makes you cope [04:12.06]It's what makes you grow [04:13.44]It's what makes you go against the grain [04:15.74]When they tell you no [04:17.18]Because now you know the healing when you get hope [04:19.61] [04:21.61]The healing when you get hope