I Tried-Matt Costa

[00:15.19]You know though nothin\' come easy, [00:19.47]you gotta try real, real hard [00:23.08]I tried hard, [00:24.49]but I guess I gotta try harder. [00:27.06]I tried so hard, can\'t seem to get away from misery, [00:32.77]Man I tried so hard, but always be a victim of these streets, [00:38.36]It Ain\'t my fault cause I, try to get away but trouble follows me, [00:44.21]And still I try so hard, hopin one day they\'ll come and rescue me, [00:50.25]But until then, I\'ll be posted up right here rain, sleet, hail, snow (hail snow) [00:56.24]But until then, I\'ll be posted up right here with my heat gettin dough (gettin\' dough) [01:02.36]First, let me explain that I\'m just a black man, [01:04.63]And I come from the darkside, so I\'m havin a hard time stayin on track man, [01:07.87]My mind be racin\', and I don\'t even know what I\'m chasin yet [01:10.33]Been in and out of relationships, I\'m startin to see that it\'s me where the complications at [01:12.11]But I\'m layin back, prayin\' that, you get that piece of mind of me [01:14.54]I thought I was right, but really I\'m wrong, but again I was too blind to see, [01:20.39]I was in the fast lane chasin my dream, [01:23.03]And then it seemed when the fame and cash came, they just got me, [01:25.23]Goin crazyyyy, (lately, lately) lately I been so faded trying to erase it, [01:31.10]But I just can\'t cause the drama just grows greater, [01:32.48]And I been in so many collisions by puttin **** off till later. [01:37.79]I tried so hard, can\'t seem to get away from misery, [01:42.86]Man I tried so hard, but always be a victim of these streets, [01:49.14]It Ain\'t my fault cause I, try to get away but trouble follows me, [01:55.08]And still I try so hard, hopin one day they\'ll come and rescue me, [02:00.72]But until then, I\'ll be posted up right here rain, sleet, hail, snow (hail snow) [02:07.05]But until then, I\'ll be posted up right here with my heat gettin dough (gettin\' dough) [02:12.77]It\'s like I\'m takin five steps forward, and ten steps back [02:15.71]Tryna get ahead of the game but I can\'t seem to get it on track [02:18.89]And I keep runnin away the ones that say they love me the most [02:21.65]How could I create the distance when it\'s supposed to be close? And uh, [02:24.84]I just don\'t know but I be out here fightin demons and [02:28.07]It\'s like the curse that I can\'t shake this part of Cleveland and [02:30.85]Lord, would you help me? And stop this pain [02:32.99]I keep inflinctin on my family (family) [02:37.57]Hustlin and gamblin, drinkin\' and scramblin\' [02:40.55]And losin sight of what I supposed to be handlin\' [02:43.47]It\'s hard to manage cause every days a challenge and man [02:46.49]And I\'m slippin can\'t lose my balance and tryin not to panic [02:48.01]I tried so hard, can\'t seem to get away from misery, [02:53.68]Man I tried so hard, but always be a victim of these streets, [02:59.67]It Ain\'t my fault cause I, try to get away but trouble follows me, [03:05.09]And still I try so hard, hopin one day they\'ll come and rescue me, [03:10.93]But until then, I\'ll be posted up right here rain, sleet, hail, snow (hail snow) [03:16.67]But until then, I\'ll be posted up right here with my heat gettin dough (gettin\' dough) [03:23.66]I see thangs won\'t change (wont change) I\'m stuck in the game [03:26.78]As soon as I get out it keeps pullin me back man (pullin me back man) [03:29.74]Got me doin\' dirty dirt, so used to this hustlin money, [03:32.44]That I don\'t understand no nine to five work [03:34.82]Studied on the streets, hustlas know what I mean [03:38.71]Thugstas ballin\' before us I\'m tryna make that major league [03:41.33]So we never leave never till the sun came up (came up) [03:44.15]Gotta get it nope, no leavin, no grudge (no grudge) today games they play gotta go hard to get what you put in, [03:51.87]if you fall off then its all on you (on you) gotta watch what you sign too, try so hard but I won\'t act a fool. [03:57.79]I tried so hard, can\'t seem to get away from misery, [04:03.01]Man I tried so hard, but always be a victim of these streets, [04:09.01]It Ain\'t my fault cause I, try to get away but trouble follows me, [04:15.14]And still I try so hard, hopin one day they\'ll come and rescue me, [04:20.57]But until then, I\'ll be posted up right here rain, sleet, hail, snow (hail snow) [04:26.49]But until then, I\'ll be posted up right here with my heat gettin dough (gettin\' dough)