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Hopewell

from Lightfall by QJ

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Eleventh official track of the album, split into four separate parts that detail the Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Year of QJ's tenure at Hopwell High School in Huntersville, North Carolina.

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Act I: Freshman Year

[Verse 1]
Jungle, Teenage, Drama
McCain or Obama
Nerdy or Primadonna
Sublime or Nirvana
Homecoming and Prom or
Nada
Why bother when you're trying to fit in with the cool marauders
Its like Transformers Armada, more than meets the eye
When everybody is in disguise including me
What can you truly be when you and me
Are two of two thousand faces hearded through the 200 hallways by security
So much for maturity
You might as well abandon it at the door
Learning establishment of contradictions and square-wood floors
Well-rounded hipsters and whores
"Better stay your course and get to class, walk and talk
You don't want to end up in lockout"
Please, just like the MRSA disease
You come and go as you please
Just make sure Grimm and Dr. Jones or no one important sees
You learn shit like this in months of being a Freshman
With tears and fears of four years, learning the same lesson

[Chorus]
All Day
Walking through this land of plastic
Some so fake
So much gossip, always asking
What to say
Lungless voices, chosen choices
No mistakes
So much noise its all so pointless

Now I can speak
From the shell I forced myself in
Poison so sweet
Forced to fight or be just like them
Lies (the lies)
Deceit (deceit)
All the world manifested
Here (right here)
So weak (so weak)
But I've got no regrets at all

But I've got no regrets at all


Act II: Sophomore Year

[Verse 1]
Yeah
Sophomore Blues
No way to pick and choose
Its my second year in school
No way for me to lose
In a parallel universe, cause in this one, I'm doomed and cursed
To feel the fabled heartbreak
Guess I should start taking my time, but you won't make it easy
Cause we live two different lives, my friends would probably tease me
If I told them but
Wasn't old enough to see how stupid I was being
Barely holding up, only perks of growing up, sho' enough
Didn't even know what's up
I'm lounging on the wall, watch you walking down the hallways
Its after 4th block, been waiting for this all day
I call your name out, hope you don't take this the wrong way
But I like you and I think we should go out sometimes, can I get your number?
That's what I wanted to say through the "Ums" and the look of wonder
On this nerdy black kid's face, can't believe I got it
I also gave her mine, I'm pretty sure she forgot it though

[Chorus]
Don't even care I was better off without you
Take a look at me now, I'm rocking it
Baby, you got me right where you want me

Now I'm the guy that you wanted back then, so cool
Guess we both got something out of it
Baby, you got me right where you want me

[Verse 2]
I don't really blame ya for ignoring me later
And telling me that you didn't want to talk, its cool
Just not as confident as I probably should have been in school
Its just the way you handled it was a little cruel
I don't mean to ridicule
But you said you couldn't remember who I was
When we used to talk all the time in Gym Class
I just couldn't get past that, so fucking jaded
Went from everything I loved about this school, to everything that I hated but I

[Chorus]
Don't even care I was better off without you
Take a look at me now, I'm rocking it
Baby, you got me right where you want me

Now I'm the guy that you wanted back then, so cool
Guess we both got something out of it
Baby, you got me right where you want me

Baby, you got me right where you want me (X2)


Act III: Junior Year

[Intro]
Aw Yeah
This is where it all started
The beginning
Get ready for it

[Verse 1]
Yeah
More incredible than you have ever seen
Now you can see it take over everything you're cherishing
More impossible than you could ever dream
Shit must be embarassing
Maximum volume, so loud, you're perishing
Spitting fire like ignited keroscene
Cause everybody wants it, now we've got it
Hip hop in us, gotten the whole populace so excited
And it all started here, Junior year, where I'm writing my fucking brains out
The only thing that's helping me let the insane out cause there's

[Chorus]
So many ways, so many ways to tear it down
(I won't forget, I won't forget that)
So many ways, so many ways to tear it down
(Never forget, never forget that)
So many ways, so many ways to tear it down
(I represent, I represent that)
So many ways, so many ways to tear it down
(Let's tear it down, Let's tear it down, yeah)

[Verse 2]
Phantom Rose, name of the band we started
Handful of fans, "retarded
Way to advance as an artist," I was told
Given cold shoulders by people I once held dear
Self-induced fear of failing
So many people bailing out on us
But I'm still proud enough to keep it going
Only evidence is a pile of notebooks that keep on growing
Filled up to the brim, its the animal within
Now the past is getting dim and now the future's growing brighter than a gem
I can fill it in my skin, just a matter of knowing when
Apparently not soon
Just a Hip Hop/Rock Band of talented buffoons
Interference from haters inside this stupid ass school
Telling us we wouldn't make it, that our rhymes sucked
But as you can hear, we didn't let them deny us
So wise up
Get ready, open your eyes up
As we rise up and kill the status quo
If there's one thing Hopewell's taught me, its that there's

[Chorus]
So many ways, so many ways to tear it down
(I won't forget, I won't forget that)
So many ways, so many ways to tear it down
(Never forget, never forget that)
So many ways, so many ways to tear it down
(I represent, I represent that)
So many ways, so many ways to tear it down
Yeah


Act IV: Senior Year

[Verse 1]
Senioritis coursing through my veins
Its been four years, this school has barely changed
"Goliath Warfare," think that's a better name
Hopewell Talent Show, first performance changes everything
But I can barely stay focused inside the studio
Thinking about another girl, caught inside another world
But this time we actually have a chance
Till July rolls by, when she's off to college and in someone else's hands, no

[Chorus]
Oh
Baby, you're on my mind (Uh-huh, yeah)
Baby be mine
Can we make it to July?
Oh

I cannot lie (right)
Baby, you're on my mind (Uh-huh)
We don't have much time (Yeah)
Can we make it to July?
Baby

[Verse 2]
Okay
Its just the way she looks at me, petrifying gaze
The kind of thing that makes it so hard to skip all the cliches
So unfair, got so much that I want to say
But I've only got a few months, until I graduate
And then its pretty much over, but I don't want it to end here
Not like other guys, no, I can remain sincere
Know you feel more comfortable just by having your friends near
But I just want to get you alone for once
Seems like you've thrown the punch but I've got these feelings for you
You know I do
So I show you just what I do
Special song written just for you
You hear it, uh

Its right there in the lyrics
Baby (X3)

I just want to get to know ya
But soon high school will be over
Its making my mind so flooded
You are the Ark, I am Noah
Can you feel it? uh

Give me the wheel, I'll steer it
Baby (X3)

[Chorus]
Oh (Oh)
Baby, you're on my mind (Uh-huh, yeah)
Baby be mine (Oh)
Can we make it to July?
Oh

I cannot lie (right)
Baby, you're on my mind (Uh-huh)
We don't have much time
Can we make it to July?
Baby

[Outro]
Ha, The End

[Introductor]
The Hopewell Song has concluded. Please continue listening to the following album by QJ and keep the volume high.

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from Lightfall, released November 18, 2012
All Acts Written, Performed, and Produced By Quentin Garriett/QJ Goodwin. All Beats Made By The Jazzment.

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Consisting of two musical powerhouses, Quentin "QJ" Garriett and Terence "T-Squared" Harris, the two perform music both solo and together as the cohesive hip hop duo, Goliath Warfare.

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