Song Lyrics : The Pessimist lyrics.
Artist : Wale.
[Intro]
 Jerry: Oh so there's still hope?
 George: I don't want hope, hope is killing me. My dream is to become hopeless. When you're hopeless you don't care, and when you don't care, that indifference, it makes you attractive
 
 [Verse 1: Wale]
 A nigga feelin' hopeless
 Who am I to change perception?
 If a nigga kill a nigga he's another statistic
 If his skin's a little different they gon' say it was self defense
 Nigga feelin' hopeless
 Starin' at the idiom box, riddle me this
 If a killer was a nigga would niggas still really care
 Cause niggas worser than Zimmerman livin' life everywhere
 Niggas hopeless
 Small niggas with big tools
 Couldn't get to Harvard, hard work, he hard whipped
 Cause them hardy hah's and hard nights
 Are hard to live through
 When you hopeless
 What we gotta do to be winnin'?
 Cause all the schools gettin' closed
 Dribble a little, coach, shootin' at a foe
 Cause they chargin' them to hoop at community center
 My nigga, hopeless
 25 bands, he was shootin' not a damn givin'
 Cousin threw a couple grand at some dancers
 Throwin' back their fat ass, is my glasses confused?
 We're the hopeless
 America's dream and nightmare in the same being
 Even when being polite here
 Niggas try to bring me down, the life of a pioneer
 Lightyears worth of hopeless
 Celebrities celebratin' disgust me
 The cerebellum invaded with all these fresh things on
 Watchin' "Love and Hip Hop : Atlanta" as we speak
 Nigga we hopeless
 Okay, the Steebie show is on
 And so my broad rollin' weed now she's mad at me
 Cause she seen a scene with Rasheeda baby father
 Said, "You niggas all hopeless"
 
 [Hook: J Cole]
 Got a pocket full of lint again, but it make no difference to me
 Fallin' out with my friends again, but it make no difference to me
 Goddamn I'm hopeless
 Oh man I'm hopeless
 Got no gas in my tank again, but it make no difference to me
 Overdraft at the bank again, but it make no difference to me
 Goddamn I'm hopeless
 Lord knows I'm hopeless
 Still I pray
 
 [Verse 2: Wale]
 Nigga feelin' hopeless
 Like a Penny with a hole in it
 We as empty as a corazón of a widow
 From a soul that she don't know when he's comin' home
 He don't got no limit, hopeless
 What's a purple heart to a hurt head?
 He done done 12 years, he was told 6
 Prolly go back in a minute, ain't shit here
 Nigga so hopeless
 Thoughts are ravaging in the whole crib
 Now he post-traumatic and always on the edge
 On the pills, some bills, two kids, one leg
 Nigga so hopeless
 A lot of black cops always clap back
 And some foul white cops always on deck
 Playin' race card, guarantee you'll make a blackjack
 Nigga so hopeless
 Cause we ain't 'posed to ever have shit
 And we ain't vocal as rap
 Niggas cause we don't mope unless we trap hits
 Nigga hopeless
 Look at what I go through to show you
 Niggas respect money, money respect power
 And power, we never given unless
 A nigga catch, shoot or dribble
 We are hopeless
 Nah you ain't out here for the culture
 You finna riot, without a purpose
 You ain't a mothafuckin' rider, you a fuckin' token, posin'
 Nigga hopeless
 Of course not literal
 But why complain about the man
 When a nigga with my skin
 The same problems with them I had
 Is out there killin' niggas too?
 Eat your food, nigga
 
 [Hook]

