| [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 shit 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) |