I Tried (Tribute To Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) - Various Artists/Akon

You know though nothin' come easy

You gotta try real real hard

I tried hard but I guess I gotta try harder

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

Man I try so hard

But always be a victim of these streets

It Ain't my fault cause I

Try to get away but trouble follows me

And still I try so hard hopin'

One day they'll come and rescue me

But until then I'll be posted up right here rain

Sleet hail snow (hail snow)

But until then I'll be posted up right here

With my heat gettin dough (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 complications 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

But 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 crazyyyy (lately lately)

Lately I been so faded trying to erase it

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

And I been in so many collisions

By puttin sh*t off till later

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

Man I try so hard

But always be a victim of these streets

It Ain't my fault cause I

Try to get away but trouble follows me

And still I try so hard

Hopin one day they'll come and rescue me

But until then I'll be posted up right here rain

Sleet hail snow (hail snow)

But until then I'll be posted up right here

With my heat gettin dough (gettin' dough)

It's like I'm takin five steps forward

And ten steps back

Tryna 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 (family)

Hustlin and gamblin drinkin' and scramblin'

And losin sight of what I supposed to be handlin'

It's hard to manage cause every days a challenge and man

And I'm slippin can't lose my balance

And tryin not to panic

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

Man I try so hard

But always be a victim of these streets

It Ain't my fault cause I

Try to get away but trouble follows me

And still I try so hard

Hopin one day they'll come and rescue me

But until then I'll be posted up right here rain

Sleet hail snow (hail snow)

But until then I'll be posted up right here

With my heat gettin dough (gettin' dough)

I see thangs won't change (wont change)

I'm stuck in the game

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

(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 hustlas know what I mean

Thugstas ballin' before us I'm tryna make that major league

So we never leave never till the sun came up (came up)

Gotta get it nope no leavin no grudge (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 (on you)

Gotta watch what you sign too

Try so hard but I won't act a fool

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

Man I try so hard

But always be a victim of these streets

It Ain't my fault cause I

Try to get away but trouble follows me

And still I try so hard

Hopin one day they'll come and rescue me

But until then I'll be posted up right here rain

Sleet hail snow (hail snow)

But until then I'll be posted up right here

With my heat gettin dough gettin' dough