HOPE

Victor Peace Ft. Makena

I wrote the song hope thinking about how God has been faithful to my family and I especially my mum Esther Joy. It’s basically an indirect narrative of my life so far, having being raised by a single parent seeing the struggle, the ups and the downs. It’s a song that honors our parents for the much work they do just to see that we are following God’s plan for our lives. Most times we take for granted their presence and their influence and we are caught up in portraying them as this older generation who are fun killers, if we only saw the bigger picture, that they are God’s channel to us here on earth. The Bible says obedience is better than sacrifice, and respect for our parents is the only commandment with a promise. This is basically the doctrine behind this song that if we do all this, then we do have hope for a better tomorrow since the basic unit of a society is the family.

LYRICS

 Hear it here: http://soundcloud.com/victorpeace/hope-victor-peace-ft-makena

I just hope you’re proud of me men

Verse 1

I love you mommy, you’ve showed me a lot of things

How to treat a lady and how to become a king

And I’m feeling all this love that’s flowing inside of me

Wanted to say am grateful for all of these little things

And you see- I did you a lot of wrong

You beat me up this discipline yeah it made me strong

And I’m trying to do my best I’m hoping my mama proud

I can cope with all the stress when her knees are upon the ground

Praying that I make it- and if I find a heart she’s praying that I won’t break it

She knows the kind of pain when you raising a son alone and your father has ran away

Chose to keep her baby such mothers I say hooray

And this is my ovation to this one who showed me why salvation

I will not depart from the ways of your teaching

Like death this love is not living- it’s always goin’ to stay

I pray for your happiness, I pray for you today

That you may find favor with God in a way that you cannot explain

(And I pray you keep smiling won’t you keep smiling)*2

(Coz it always gives me hope)*2

Yeah... shout outs to my mum E.J (Esther Joy), I love you man

Verse 2

Hi new daddy you’ve taught me a lot of things

How to be a father I’m thinking I ought to be

How to be godly pleasing to God’s eyes

How to keep your family closer at all times

And as you look for money, your family comes first like before Honey

And as you still smile when it’s not so sunny

Things you sacrifice so that we keep smiling

Sometimes we all fighting Hate it when we angry

We all storm out but it’s part of the journey

But you know I still love you you’re part of an answered prayer

Still God’s blessing to know that you are there

Word to your sons, word to your daughters

Respect your folks if ya’ll want to live longer

Commandment with a promise- age is not defined

They’ve seen the world they know what it seems like

They know right like tick on a shoe Nike

They know light like stuck in a thick night

They know free when you stuck in your life tight

They’ll be the voice the mouth of the most high

So keep respecting, keep respecting keep expecting the hand of the Lord blessing

Keep respecting keep respecting keep expecting the word of the Lord blessing

(And it will always give you hope)*2

Yeah… this’ just what I feel

(Fades till end)