Hope from a Hopeless Perspective

Standing on the corner in need of a cigarette

He's dancing on the border between guilty and innocent

Eighteen years old, and this kid is a wreck

Can't even pay for his own damn bus ticket

You can see in his eyes

All the despair

A blind man can foresee his demise

He's just lonely and scared

The look of a sad old man

But he's still in the youth

Thinking 'bout his battles,

Damn!

How's he still in the loop?

All he does is survive and his feelings are through

The reason he's still alive is he's got millions to prove

Otherwise, that he's not like these other guys

Telling him to make a couple signs

And ask for cash, but he won't take their dumb advice

He'll work but he won't beg for shit

But he's got no job, he's thinking this is it

Because no one's hiring kids with no residence

And he's tired of the same bullshit rhetoric

"Keep going, work harder, chase excellence"

An outcast who's been demonized

But with every new rhyme he writes he keeps the dream alive

Every word in every verse, he's taking demon lives

He keeps the drive when there should be nothing to give

'Cause for the past week at least

Where he sleeps at night is under a bridge

In moments where it seems hopeless

He remains focused

Rhyming all day, finding his way

Hoping he gets noticed even if it's hopeless

Hoping he gets noticed even if its hopeless.