I wish the way I was living could stop serving rocks knowing the cops is hot when I'm on the block and I wish my brother would have made bail so I won't have to travel six hours to see him in jail and I wish that my grandmother wasn't sick or that we would just come up on some stacks and hit a lick and I wish my homies wouldn't have to suffer when the streets get the upper hand on us and we lose a brother and I wish I could go deep in the zone and lift the spirits of the world with the words within the song and I wish I could teach a soul to fly take away the pain out your hands and help you hold them high and I wish my homie Butch was still alive and on the day of his death we had never took that ride and I wish that God could protect us from the wrong so that all the soldiers that were sent overseas come home and uh we will never break though they devastate we shall motivate and we gotta pray all we got is faith instead of thinking about who gon' die today the Lord is gon' help you feel better so you ain't gotta cry today sit at the light so long and then we gotta move straight forward cause we fight so strong so when right go wrong just say a little prayer get your money man light goes on Though I'm hopeful yes I am hopeful for today take this music and use it let it take you away and be hopeful hopeful and he'll make a way I know it ain't easy but that's okay cause we hopeful I wish that you could show some love instead of hating so much when you see some other people coming up I wish I could teach the world to sing write some music and have them tripping off the joy I bring *** I wish that we can hold hands listen instead of this unless it's from a grown man and I wish the families that lack but got love get some stocks brand new shotgun a lot that's on doves and I wish we could keep achieving wonders see the vision of the world through the eyes of Stevie Wonder you feel me and I hope all the kids eat and don't nobody in my family see six feet you dig I hope the mothers stand strong you can make it whether you hit em or your mans gone and I wish I could give every celly some conversary and a popo bring the heat on a priest like that did R. Kelly and I wish that D.O.C. could scream again and bullets could reverse and Pac and Biggie breathe again *** then one day they could speak again I wish that we only saw good news every time we look at CNN I wish we could never get the blues wish I could bring back the people that died at E2 I wish that we could walk a path stay doing the right thing hustle hard so the kids maintain that feeling again I'm hopeful yes I am hopeful for today take this music and use it let it take you away and be hopeful hopeful and he'll make a way I know it ain't easy but that's okay cause we hopeful wish the world wasn't so apocalyptic I try to spread my message to the world the best way that I can give it we can make it always be optimistic if you don't listen gotta live my life the best way that I can live it I pray for justice when we go to court wish it was all good so the country never even went to war why can't we kick it and just get em on and in the famous words of Mr. King why can't we all just get along hope we can find a better way to shop at P's and I hope we find a better way to cop at K's and I wish everybody would just stop and freeze and ask why are we fulfilling these laws and these prophecies you can be wrong if it's you doubting with the faith of a muster seed you can move mountains and only the heavenly father can ease the hurt just let it go and keep praying on your knees I'm hopeful yes I am hopeful for today take this music and use it let it take you away and be hopeful hopeful and he'll make a way I know it ain't easy but that's okay cause we hopeful yes I am hopeful for today take this music and use it let it take you away and be hopeful hopeful and he'll make a way I know it ain't easy but that's okay cause we hopeful hopeful