BlackDiamond - Hope

Sometimes I feel like
Nobody's looking out for my generation you feel me
Tell dem apple juice
Yow Kirky
Hear me now

Why me
Why me affi live in a place where success has no real guarantee
Frustration ah lead me fi pursue the life of a G
But me nuh wah me son fi see me name pon stone in a cemetery
Or down in the penitentiary
But who feels it knows it
All doors dem close it
All chance at real development dem froze it
Don't try expose it
You'll be chastised, victimized with dem lies anytime dem throw spit yeah
Me wah build a future fi mi son
But it shouldn't be determined by the bullets in my gun
Mi wah fi do like the others and just pack my shit and run
But me cyan even afford the option

So me have hope
Yeah we hope and pray
Yow man ah live pon hope
Yeah we hope and pray
Hear me now

Nuff ah dem sell out fi a one time payment
While de rest weh work hard ah scrape de pavement
Dem wah fi buy nice things fi make make a statement
While de rest ah we ah beg Jah fi bare strength
Nuff gyal affi sell dem body fi pay rent
Some of dem sell dem daughters with no consent
So many lose dem morals fi a few cents
Yet de police always absent

But who feels it knows it
All doors dem close it
All chance at real development dem froze it
Don't try expose it
You'll be chastised, victimized with dem lies anytime dem throw spit yeah
Dem nuh wah fi tell de truth,
Me know say the future's in the youth,
But dem pack us on the side,
And dem wah fi give us de cold boot

So we have hope
Yeah we Hope and Pray
Yow man ah live pon hope
Yeah we hope and pray
Yow we ah live pon hope
Yeah we hope and pray
Yow never lose hope

Written by:
Jamaal Lloyd

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