I Shoulda Tried Harder

Lyrics

[Intro] Nobody's perfect Yeah, it's Big Wax On the balcony, laid back, relaxed Yo, I've spent a lot of time makin' this music And I put food on my table with it and all that But sometimes I can't help and look back And wonder how things could've been [Chorus] If I woulda tried harder I would be all I can be If I woulda tried harder I coulda sailed the seven seas If I woulda tried harder I would be a better man I guess I shoulda tried harder But I didn't, so here I am Here I am [Verse 1] I should probably be a star by now But I'm probably at the bar by now If you're hearing this past five, or even four If it's morning, I'm probably somewhere on a cement floor Even more so if we on tour Me and E explore the country, wondering about the evening before (Where am I?) Trying to explain where the time went While other rappers find a studio to grind in Kinda like when Kobe finds a gym, but the flow be Iverson Yes, homie, I am him ("Practice?") I don't practice a lot, it's not a habit I got I'd rather smoke pot and kick it with Craig and them But Craig and them ain't making Benjamins (Nope) They just sittin' on the couch again and again and again Damn, free time, I always wasted it I wonder what my life woulda been like if I'd have gave a shit [Chorus] If I woulda tried harder (Harder) I would be all I can be (Be all I can be, yeah) If I woulda tried harder (Harder) I coulda sailed the seven seas (Sailed the seven seas, yeah, I coulda sailed the seven seas) If I woulda tried harder (Harder) I would be a better man (Be a better man, yeah, I coulda been a better man) I guess I shoulda tried harder (Tried harder) But I didn't, so here I am (Check it out, hmm, here I am) [Verse 2] Back in high school, this shit was a breeze (It's easy) Smoked a bunch of trees and I still got B's Got high as fuck on my SAT's Both as far as score-making and right before takin' 'em I've never worked harder at a job than required I've only worked hard enough not to be fired It's like Office Space You'da thought that Peter was there Or Jennifer Aniston rocking minimum pieces of flair I couldn't imagine what woulda happened If God wouldn'ta made me good at rapping It's only 'cause of that a good life I provide myself But just think, what if I'd applied myself? I could be another level rich Sponsored by a bubble beverage On television talking about how good Dr. Pepper is (Ah) I wish I was as ambitious as 50 Cent I coulda went the same route him and Diddy went, but alas [Chorus] If I woulda tried harder (I was slackin' too much) I would be all I can be (Be all I can be, man) If I woulda tried harder (Gotta pick up the pace) I coulda sailed the seven seas (Sail the seven seas, gotta work much harder) If I woulda tried harder (If I woulda) I would be a better man (Be a better man, what woulda happened? Yeah) I guess I shoulda tried harder (What woulda happened?) But I didn't, so here I am Here I am [Outro] Yeah, Michael Jordan, I ain't talkin' to you, nope Uh, Oprah Winfrey, I ain't talkin' to you, nope Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, I ain't talkin' to y'all, nope Tiger Woods, yeah, I possibly am talkin' to you But Donald Trump, I ain't talkin' to you To my man who's the Pope, I ain't talkin' to you To Chuck Norris, I ain't talkin' to you Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, I ain't talkin' to you Steve Jobs, rest in peace, but I ain't talkin' to you To my man Neil Armstrong, I ain't talkin' to you Or Lance Armstrong, I ain't talkin' to you If your name is something that ends with Armstrong I probably ain't talkin' to you, uh It's Big Wax My man Curtis D in the place to be With my man Davy on the K-E to the Y-B-O-A-R-D However you spell "keyboard", haha Geographical like a fjord Or maybe a peninsula Big Wax comin' through, always convincin'—