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 likeThey 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)