I Tried

Bone Thugs, Akon yeah

You know though, nothin' come easy

You gotta try real, real hard

I tried hard but I guess I gotta try harder

I tried so hard, can't seem to get away from misery

Man, I tried so hard but always be a victim of these streets

It ain't my fault ?cause I tried to get away but trouble follows me

And still I try so hard hopin? one day you'll come and rescue me

But until then I'll be posted up right here rain, sleet, hail, snow

But until then I'll be posted up right here with my heat gettin? dough

First let me explain that I'm just a black man

And I come from the darkside

So I'm havin? a hard time stayin' on track man

My mind be racin' and I don't even know what I'm chasin? yet

Been in and out of relationships

I'm startin' to see that it's me where the complication's at

But I'm layin' back prayin' that you get that piece of mind of me

I thought I was right but really I'm wrong

Then again I was too blind to see

I was in the fast lane chasin? my dream

And then it seemed when the fame and cash came they just got me

Goin' crazy, lately I been so faded tryna erase it

But I just can't cause the drama just grows greater

And I been in so many collisions by puttin? shit off till later

I tried so hard, can't seem to get away from misery

Man, I tried so hard but always be a victim of these streets

It ain't my fault ?cause I tried to get away but trouble follows me

And still I try so hard hopin? one day you'll come and rescue me

But until then I'll be posted up right here rain, sleet, hail, snow

But until then I'll be posted up right here with my heat gettin? dough

It's like I'm takin? five steps forward and ten steps back

Tryin? get ahead of the game but I can't seem to get it on track

And I keep runnin? away the ones that say they love me the most

How could I create the distance when it's supposed to be close?

And uh I just don't know but I be out here fightin? demons

And it's like the curse that I can't shake this part of Cleveland

And Lord would you help me?

And stop this pain I keep inflinctin? on my family

Hustlin? and gamblin?, drinkin' and scramblin'

And losin? sight of what I supposed to be handlin'

It's hard to manage ?cause every day?s a challenge

And man, I'm slippin? can't lose my balance, I?m tryin? not to panic

I tried so hard, can't seem to get away from misery

Man, I tried so hard but always be a victim of these streets

It ain't my fault ?cause I tried to get away but trouble follows me

And still I try so hard hopin? one day you'll come and rescue me

But until then I'll be posted up right here rain, sleet, hail, snow

But until then I'll be posted up right here with my heat gettin? dough

I see thangs won't change, I'm stuck in the game

As soon as I get out, it keeps pullin? me back man

Got me doin' dirty dirt, so used to this hustlin' money

That I don't understand no nine to five work

Studied on the streets, hustlers know what I mean

Thugsters ballin' before us, I'm tryna make that major league

So we never leave, never 'til the sun came up

Gotta get it, no no leavin? no grudge

Today games they play

Gotta go hard to get what you put in

If you fall off then it?s all on you

Gotta watch what you sign too

Try so hard but I won't play the fool

I tried so hard, can't seem to get away from misery

Man, I tried so hard but always be a victim of these streets

It ain't my fault ?cause I tried to get away but trouble follows me

And still I try so hard hopin? one day you'll come and rescue me

But until then I'll be posted up right here rain, sleet, hail, snow

But until then I'll be posted up right here with my heat gettin? dough