Hopeless Generation ft. Jay Bales Lyrics

Disappointed I was born within this generation

Where the homeless sleep on sidewalks near a spot that's vacant

I pray that all my peers can build a good foundation

My morals set in stone but not my expectations

Niggas out here dodgin bullets we not in the matrix

Then we wake up and see footage of the altercation

And they a post a dead body with no hesitation

And never think about the families when they post and share it

Then the media debate it spark up conversation

And just because they sold a story they want compensation

We turn to isolation when outside seem dangerous

But Pop Smoke was in the crib when his life was taken

They say I got an old soul I'm tryin to embrace it

And still remain consistent when the trends have faded

Havin deja vu bout different times and places

But I don't even believe in reincarnation

To the people came before me I drew inspiration

The cloth that y'all are cut from seems like fabrication

Yeah I'm grateful we ain't fightin shit like segregation

I'm just pissed that I'm apart this hopeless generation

The writing is on the wall

I hope we don't crumble and fall

You can't even tell me I'm wrong

We're cut from a different cloth

This hopeless generation

This hopeless generation

This generation's going to take more than some thoughts and prayers

We look soft on the outside but let's peel back the layers

Covid during college made Zoom second nature

But it made it hard for us to love thy neighbor

Twitter and Tiktok became our new newspaper

No wonder all these kids want to be content creators

Hunnid grand out of college that be the debt we payin

Then company's offering to pay minimum wages

Old heads and boomers got the nerve to call us lazy

But we just know our worth somebody tell them bout inflation

15 dollars in the 80s more than 50 now

But they don't want to give us raises that shit trips me out

Our first election we watched dumb and dumber face each other

Country polarized as when north and south faced each other

Had to protest for our sisters while they killed our brothers

Trynna discover ourself while we go through this struggle

Everybody go through shit but it seems like we been through more

You don't got to win every battle make sure you win the war

Then when you look back later at the moments you had to endure

Peel back some of those layers we the strongest at the core

The writing is on the wall

I hope we don't crumble and fall

You can't even tell me I'm wrong

We're cut from a different cloth

This hopeless generation

This hopeless generation