What Were You Hoping For?
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What Were You Hoping For? by Van Hunt
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The title track from Van Hunt’s 2011 album is about the gentrification of predominantly non-white communities due to the recession of 2008.
The song is written from the perspective of a resident of one such community who is in danger of being displaced by rising costs of living – or, in the second-...
What Were You Hoping For? Lyrics
[Verse 1]
It's the end of white flight
Can't afford to keep moving north
Money tight
You're begging door to door
It's the end of white flight
Can't afford to live around the people you like
Money tight
You're hating your life
[Chorus]
Maybe that's the mechanism
To bring me closer to you
Tell me, what were you hoping for?
How do you do the things you do?
Maybe that's the algorithm
To bring me closer to you
Tell me, what were you hoping for?
[Verse 2]
It's the end of white flight
Even tycoons are licking their wounds
Economic plight
Got the neighborhood looking captive [?]
White flight
Maybe now you see something you like
Listen baby, I'm your type
You're hating your life
[Chorus]
Maybe that's the mechanism
To bring me closer to you
Tell me, what were you hoping for?
Why do you do the things you do?
Maybe that's the algorithm
To bring me closer to you
Tell me, what were you hoping for?
[Instrumental/sampled bridge]
[Chorus]
Maybe that's the mechanism
To bring me closer to you
Tell me, what were you hoping for?
Why do you do the things you do?
Maybe that's the algorithm
To bring me closer to you
Tell me, what were you hoping for?