[Intro]
I tried…
I tried…
I tried…
But the echo just laughed and replied…
[Verse 1]
Woke up with the sun but the sun was a gun pointed straight at my chest,
tried to run from the test but the vest was a mess and the stress was a guest
that overstayed and festered in the nest where the rest of my dreams got compressed into dust,
now I cuss at the rust on the trust that I placed in the face of the race
that I chased but erased with a mace to the faith I misplaced…
Tried to code my way out the hole but the code was a load that exploded the node
and I rode that explosion like a potion of emotion too potent,
now I’m floating in the ocean of what-ifs and should-haves
I stabbed with a dagger of swagger that sagged when the bag of my swag
got dragged through the mud of “you’re not good enough”…
[Pre-Hook]
Still I…
[Hook]
I tried, I tried, I tried, I failed
I tried, I tried, I tried, I failed
Tried to prevail but the scale was a jail and I bailed on the trail
to the grail that was stale and derailed by the gale of my own private hell
I tried, I tried, I tried, I failed
Tried to sail but the whale of my fail flipped the tail
and I sailed into the void where the noise of my choice got destroyed and employed
by the void in my soul
I tried, I tried, I tried, I failed
[Verse 2]
Tried to build a bridge to the fridge of my dreams but the fridge was a bitch
full of shit that I ate and it made me sick with the trick of the quick fix
I mixed with the licks of the devil’s advocate who advocated for the fate that I hated,
now I’m sedated in the basement of my placement in the matrix of fakeness
where the greatness I chased was just faceless replacement for the real deal
that I killed with my own two hands and a plan that was damned from the start
like a fart in the wind that I tried to defend but it ended up offending
the senses of the pretenses I pretended were endless…
Tried to fuck the system but the system fucked back with a strap and a cap
to the back of my cranium, titanium skull but it still took the toll
and I rolled with the punches but the punches were lunches that I munched for brunch
while I crunched numbers in the gutter where the clutter cluttered my brain
with the pain of the same old refrain…
[Bridge]
Tried to pray but the god was a fraud with a rod and a nod
to the odd way I plodded through the sod of my life like a knife to the wife of my strife,
tried to slice through the vice but the vice was a vice-grip that gripped my wrist
and I missed the assist from the list of the things that I wished would exist
but they didn’t so I pivoted and pivoted again till the spin made me dizzy
and busy with the business of failing…
Tried to fix my head but the meds were the threads that I shred in the bed
where I bled from the words that I said to the version of me that was already dead…
[Hook – bigger, more unhinged]
I tried, I tried, I tried, I failed
I tried, I tried, I tried, I failed
Tried to change but the chain was the same and the game was a shame
that I claimed as my name till the flame in my brain turned to rain
and I drowned in the sound of the same old refrain…
I tried, I tried, I tried, I failed
[Outro]
I tried…
I tried…
I tried…
I failed…
I failed…
I failed…
But maybe next time…
Or maybe not…
I tried…