"I Tried"
(feat. Akon)

[Intro (Wish Bone)]

You know [bad word] easy, you gotta try real real hard, I tried hard...but I guess I
gotta try harder.

 [bad word] (Akon)]

I try so hard can't seem to get away from misery
man I try so hard
will 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
hoping one day [bad word] 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 getting dough

[Verse 1 (Krayzie Bone)]

First let me explain that I'm just a black man
and [bad word] from the darkside, so I'm having a hard time staying on track man my mind be
racing, and I don't even know what I'm chasin' yet I been in and out of relationships, I'm
starting to see thats it's me where [bad word] at, but I'm laying back praying that,
you can't have piece of mind of me, I thought I was right but really I'm wrong, in the end
I was to blind to see, I was in the fast lane chasin' my dream, and then it seem when the
fame and cash came they just got me going crazy lately, lately, lately I been so faded
trying to erase it but I cant cause the drama just goes greater and I been in so many
collisions from putting [bad word] up till later

 [bad word] (Akon)]

I try so hard
can't seem to get away from misery
man I try so hard
will 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
hoping one day [bad word] 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 getting dough

[Verse 2 (Layzie Bone)]

It's like I'm taking 5 steps forward and 10 steps back, trying to get ahead of the game,
but I can't seem to get it on track, and I [bad word] away from the ones that say they
love me the most how could I create the distance when it's suppose to be close and uh, I
just don't know but I be out here fighting demons and, it's like a curse that I can't shake
this part of Cleveland and lord, would you help me? and stop this pain I keep inflicting on
my family hustling gambling, tricking and scamming scrambling and losing sight of what I'm
suppose to be handling, it's hard to manage cause everyday's a challenge and man I'm slipping
can't lose my balance I'm trying not to panic

 [bad word] (Akon)]

I try so hard
can't seem to get away from misery
man I try so hard
will 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
hoping one day [bad word] 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 getting dough

[Verse 3 (Wish Bone)]

I see thangs won't change I'm stuck in the game as soon as I get out it keeps pulling me
back mayne got me doin' dirty dirt so used to this hustlin' money that I don't understand
how 9 to 5 work studied on the streets, hustlers know what I mean hustlers balling in force
I'm tryna make that major league so we never leave never, til' the sun came up gotta get it
nope no leaving [bad word] today games they play gotta go hard to get what u put in if you fall
off then it's all on you gotta watch what you sign to try so hard but I won't play the fool

 [bad word] (Akon)]

I try so hard
can't seem to get away from misery
man I try so hard
will 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
hoping one day you