I Tried

[00:00.70] "I Tried"

[00:01.48] (feat. Akon)

[00:16.10] You know nothing come easy, you gotta try real real hard, I tried hard...but I guess I

[00:24.86] gotta try harder.

[00:26.72] I try so hard can't seem to get away from misery

[00:31.50] man I try so hard

[00:34.69] will always be a victim of these streets

[00:37.61] it ain't my fault cause I...

[00:40.53] tried to get away but trouble follows me

[00:43.73] and still I try so hard

[00:46.38] hoping one day you'll come and rescue me

[00:49.30] but until then, I'll be posted up right here rain sleet hail snow

[00:55.41] but until then...

[00:57.00] I'll be posted up right here with my heat getting dough

[01:01.26] First let me explain that I'm just a black man

[01:03.11] and I come from the darkside, so I'm having a hard time staying on track man my mind be

[01:07.36] racing, and I don't even know what I'm chasin' yet I been in and out of relationships, I'm

[01:11.08] starting to see thats it's me where the complications at, but I'm laying back praying that,

[01:15.59] you can't have piece of mind of me, I thought I was right but really I'm wrong, in the end

[01:20.91] I was to blind to see, I was in the fast lane chasin' my dream, and then it seem when the

[01:23.04] fame and cash came they just got me going crazy lately, lately, lately I been so faded

[01:26.22] trying to erase it but I cant cause the drama just goes greater and I been in so many

[01:34.99] collisions from putting shit up till later

[01:37.11] I try so hard

[01:38.98] can't seem to get away from misery

[01:41.89] man I try so hard

[01:44.55] will always be a victim of these streets

[01:47.74] it ain't my fault cause I...

[01:50.66] tried to get away but trouble follows me

[01:53.05] and still I try so hard

[01:56.50] hoping one day you'll come and rescue me

[01:59.15] but until then, I'll be posted up right here rain sleet hail snow

[02:05.27] but until then...

[02:07.39] I'll be posted up right here with my heat getting dough

[02:11.64] It's like I'm taking 5 steps forward and 10 steps back, trying to get ahead of the game,

[02:15.62] but I can't seem to get it on track, and I keep running away from the ones that say they

[02:19.35] love me the most how could I create the distance when it's suppose to be close and uh, I

[02:23.60] just don't know but I be out here fighting demons and, it's like a curse that I can't shake

[02:28.11] this part of Cleveland and lord, would you help me? and stop this pain I keep inflicting on

[02:33.96] my family hustling gambling, tricking and scamming scrambling and losing sight of what I'm

[02:39.81] suppose to be handling, it's hard to manage cause everyday's a challenge and man I'm slipping

[02:44.31] can't lose my balance I'm trying not to panic

[02:47.24] I try so hard

[02:49.36] can't seem to get away from misery

[02:52.02] man I try so hard

[02:54.94] will always be a victim of these streets

[02:57.60] it ain't my fault cause I...

[03:00.79] tried to get away but trouble follows me

[03:03.18] and still I try so hard

[03:06.09] hoping one day you'll come and rescue me

[03:09.28] but until then, I'll be posted up right here rain sleet hail snow

[03:14.86] but until then...

[03:17.26] I'll be posted up right here with my heat getting dough

[03:21.79] I see thangs won't change I'm stuck in the game as soon as I get out it keeps pulling me

[03:27.11] back mayne got me doin' dirty dirt so used to this hustlin' money that I don't understand

[03:32.16] how 9 to 5 work studied on the streets, hustlers know what I mean hustlers balling in force

[03:37.73] I'm tryna make that major league so we never leave never, til' the sun came up gotta get it

[03:44.91] nope no leaving no rush today games they play gotta go hard to get what u put in if you fall

[03:50.22] off then it's all on you gotta watch what you sign to try so hard but I won't play the fool

[03:57.94] I try so hard

[03:59.27] can't seem to get away from misery

[04:02.18] man I try so hard

[04:05.38] will always be a victim of these streets

[04:07.77] it ain't my fault cause I...

[04:10.96] tried to get away but trouble follows me

[04:14.95] and still I try so hard

[04:16.80] hoping one day you'll come and rescue me

[04:19.19] but until then, I'll be posted up right here rain sleet hail snow

[04:25.56] but until then...

[04:28.22] I'll be posted up right here with my heat getting dough