NF - HOPE
Time: 0:28
Hope
30 years you've been draggin' your feet, tellin' me I'm the reason we're stagnant
30 years you've been claiming you're honest and promising progress, well, where's it at?

motionless; not circulating or flowing
Heard in 56 songs (271M+ combined views) — most famously in "HOPE" by NF.
Updated August 13, 2026
Time: 0:28
Hope
30 years you've been draggin' your feet, tellin' me I'm the reason we're stagnant
30 years you've been claiming you're honest and promising progress, well, where's it at?

Time: 2:23
And I poke (and I poke) and I poked it
But it stayed stagnant then I poked at it some more (some more)
And in my notepad, man I wrote (man I wrote)

Time: 3:17
But maybe I ain't lose 'em at all
Maybe I keep movin' forward and they're just stagnant, they ain't movin' at all
But when they need a favor, who do they call?

Time: 1:33
Your dreams can never be stolen
Don't leave them stagnant, rotting on the vine
Say goodbye to anyone who tries

Time: 11:31
The result?
Wings begin to emerge, breaking the cycle of feeling stagnant
Finally free, the butterfly sheds light on situations that

Time: 2:11
Feel asthmatic like treadmill FIFA jogging
Stagnant, running in place is tragic
My heart in the faith I don't practice

Time: 0:31
I was being patient (patient)
Y'all was being stagnant (ow!)
The crazy thing about it (uh)

Time: 2:45
I want it, I'm on it, it's mine for the take
I'm stagnant, a magnet, I'm staying in place
The reason I'm popping is all of the hate

Time: 0:38
Had to get outside my comfort zone, I'm on it, now I'm focused
I was startin' to feel stagnant, I had to switch the motion
Two hundred in Chanel, how the fuck she ain't gon' post it?

Time: 0:34
Tonight the motionless must vacate
So we can accelerate out of a stagnant society
We're sick of the same old story

Time: 0:16
The casket is exhumed, turfs piled 'side the grave
A stagnant mass awaits me, deep in the gloom
The boxes lids I open, distraught desecrating

Time: 3:15
I need a germ to come kill me
In worms and dung lay stagnant
I'm an avid mad lad

Time: 2:42
C'mon y'all, raise the bar on this body, shit
You sound stagnant, need to progress and grow (uh-huh)
Upgrade your punchlines, progress the flow (uh-huh)

Time: 0:29
Fully saccharine
All these stagnant words which I confide
Perish in the night

Time: 2:10
♪
A stagnant pale perfume
Conceived to block the pores

Time: 0:57
I'm posted and smoking just like my uncles before me
I politic with the stagnant, forget my day by the morning
Corner store, 2 A.M

Time: 0:57
And I breathe oxygen, and you rhymin bout rocks again
You stagnant, standing still enough to feel the world spin
I'm beginning to smell the end in the path of the blowing wind

Time: 1:20
That you would be tired by now
It should have grown dull or stagnant
But with each passing day, there's never a moment I regret saying

Time: 0:22
April night-time
And we run like muscles through the stagnant nodes of man
Blood-bridges lean towards the gaping synapses

Time: 0:50
Your girl came through and got yoked, mane
I been stagnant now I'm Go Mane
I been comin' through with dope, mane

Time: 1:12
Fuck him like a rabbit, he pay me in carats (ice)
You fuck on your back, bitch, that's why you stagnant, uh
90's fine and, bitch, I'll never lose it (never)

Time: 1:04
All of the reasons that got you here in the first place
Love in time grows stagnant
The innocence we have lost

Time: 1:04
Use me all the time
I'm crawling out of the stagnant hole that you're wallowing in
So don't you claw at my ankle
![Sam Fender - Use [Live]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/eYNdEn621DQ/maxresdefault.jpg)
Time: 0:34
the infantry, peep the weapon-try as I bomb atomically
Stagnant they stood surrounded and astounded
by this total square mileage of violence that I brung

Time: 3:27
'Cause that is the only way to maintain longevity and a healthy relationship
Can't stay stagnant, uh, for too long
And what always ends up happenin' is

Time: 2:08
'Til your error you clearly learn
Now he worships at an altar, of a stagnant pool
And when he sees his reflection, he's fulfilled

Time: 1:49
But let me tell you, brother
Still waters go stagnant
Bodies bloat

Time: 1:57
Steadily searching for something new under the sun
But its stagnant, act of development first of madness
Thieves, bandits, low lives, scum

Time: 0:00
Stop turning life into a stagnant routine
Maybe it's better to bite your tongue

Time: 0:23
That stands in the field by a run-down farm
By a pond, filled up with stagnant water
Then you'll see a shack nearby, you'll ask yourself

Time: 0:56
The make sure them dead their body in a corner
Blood run down like some stagnant water
Ambersunshower:

Time: 2:28
Approaching the sea with each new generation
You're now just a stagnant and rancid disgrace
That is rapidly drowning the whole human race

Time: 2:27
Fourty blocks of white, that Marshall Mathers
Eight mile, a while my shit was stagnant
Seven fifties do 'eight' figures, young nigga at it

Time: 3:50
♪
As Grendel leaves his mossy home beneath the stagnant mere
Along the forest path he roams to Hrothgar's hall so clear
![Marillion - Grendel [Fair Deal Studios Version]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/QoO_YKzzyjs/maxresdefault.jpg)
Time: 2:04
Been working like this for a long, long time
It's feeling stagnant, we don't even fuck
And I just stay in my lane 'cause I don't wanna bug you (mm, mm, mmh)

Time: 2:15
Cloudy waters cast no reflection
Images of beauty lie there stagnant
Vibrations bounce in no direction

Time: 1:15
Come the air currents but it was my drift your supposed to be catching
Fishnets collect dust in stagnant boarder
Haven't heard back from you since the gag order

Time: 0:47
Just to let me know
And hey babe, it's a stagnant time
But it takes more than that

Time: 3:11
It was like, shit, Ye was Ye, so he was busy
You know, shit was a little stagnant
But in them four years, when my niggas was graduatin', you know
![Big Sean - Freshman 10 [Freestyle]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/rE2mb7oBfv8/maxresdefault.jpg)
Time: 0:00
Soundtrack to
This stagnant life
This meaning lost

Time: 1:05
Bone displacement surgery
Stagnant, pools of entrails
Permeates wretched odors, depraved

Time: 0:54
And listen to the winds ripe with trichloroethylene.
This stagnant "air". Sometimes it speaks to me.
Tells me of damnation. Rightly just and on the horizon.

Time: 0:33
The sound of loneliness turned up to ten
A horror soundtrack from a stagnant waterbed
And it sounds just like this

Time: 0:56
A new idea
from your stagnant mind
and you must always

Time: 0:47
Heaven is all they know, waiting their time to go
Damning who doesn't believe in their stagnant lord
Never will I give up, scared by his only son

Time: 0:59
Don't get satisfied, can't get too comfortable
Can't get stagnant or complacent in that basement
This shit really will pass you by

Time: 1:32
Catch me outside with the bandits (bandits)
Choppa hit niggas, leave them stagnant (yeah)
What you mean I'm in love with the hoes?

Time: 1:35
Dig this grave, don't make no waves
Fairy tales, stagnant pool
You call this living, well, I call you fool

Time: 1:16
Fed on the meat of the weak and the old
Stagnant blood now flowing free
The mating continues with psychotic abandon

Time: 2:01
Listening to the outside
Stagnant air on the front lines
A dark star on a clear night

Time: 1:19
Moon in a cup, crushed garlic and babies
Sailors all stagnant and bloating and rough
The horror of you floats so close by my window

Time: 0:13
I love my brothers on a level that you can't imagine
I'm taking first gen to the top, there ain't no being stagnant
Came on a plane from Kurdistan and made a perfect landing

Time: 1:16
Dancing in the middle of a crazy diamond
I'm kicking dust into the stagnant air
I am a short stop between here and third

Time: 0:57
Smiling through the trouble we face, tryna manage
My way without pumping my brakes and staying stagnant
'Cause I can sit on my ass or just imagine

Time: 1:37
Escape for just a while
Empty hearts and stagnant halls
Surrounded by these growing walls

Time: 1:34
So will we to desperate measures,
Melting into stagnant puddles,
Beat down by the sun.
