I Try

Father, I wish I coulda been a better son but I try

Girl, I wish I coulda been a better man but I try

I coulda been a better dad but I try

I'm sorry I couldn't be what ya'll expect but I try

Stride in the gled, they need a man who came with a fam and they dramas

And I must provide and protect

Funny how time flies, you get old and you wise

Ain't no winning for losing, witness to show if you kind

Either they love it or they broke the feeling

Lose against life, you can feel or hear it, they'll never kill my spirit

Since 13, 8th grade, middle school

I started writing my own shit and they riddle cool

All of a sudden all I wanted to ridicule

Gave me attention, that's when the bitches did it too

Family, spit what I did and what I would do

Family, writing his shit was all I could do

Heartbroken, child trauma, wild mama

Fowl drama, now karma, feel karma

Huh? Got me thinking bout the wonder years

When I lived to rap, now it's like I rap to live

I know I ain't the best but I try, yea

I know I ain't the best but I try

I wish I could be a better son (better son)

I wish I could be a better man (a better man)

Wish I could be a better dad (a better dad)

Sorry I couldn't be what ya'll expect though I try

Me and my pops were Starsky and Hutch

I don't what I did but I know now he don't talk to me much

He wonder why I be sparking it up

Fearing they'll kill my inspiration, I got can't record where the dutch

Now we talk in them texts

Fuck is this? I thought we was us

Where you at? They suportin my crotch

That type of shit will get Cory the clutch

Make me go in my cage, set up a wall, there's nowhere to touch

Blaming myself, all I did was followed your steps

Had to follow my own, wouldn't follow regret

My daughter's mom drop me to death

She could fuck who she wants, around my kids I won't accept

Thinkin back, thinkin back like I shoulda cut school like they in on too

I wouldn't have did this man

No buzz to follow, no deals to follow him with that

No snakes, a time that hoe bitch tryin to fix a trap

Yo friends back at the 20's tryin to fix a flat

That was life at it's best, what I would give for that?

I see em, they ain't giving what you rap

How you use it just to give it back

Fuck it

I know I ain't the best but I try, yea

I know I ain't the best but I try

I wish I could be a better son (better son)

I wish I could be a better man (a better man)

Wish I could be a better dad (a better dad)

Sorry I couldn't be what ya'll expect though I try

I try...

I know I ain't the best but I try

I know I ain't the best but I try try

A better son, a better man

A better dad

Oh I... I try