Wax - I Shoulda Tried Harder lyrics

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

If I would've tried harder
I would be all I can be
If I would've tried harder
I could have sailed the seven seas
If I would've tried harder
I would be a better man
I guess I should've tried harder
But, I didn't, so here I am here I am

I should probably be a star by now
But, I'm probably at the bar by now
If you're hearing this past 5, or even 4
If it's morning
I'm probably somewhere on a cement floor
Even more so if we're 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 'em
But Craig and 'em ain't making Benjamins
(Nope) they're just sittin' on the couch
Again and again and again
Damn, free time, I always wasted it
I wonder what my life would've been like
If I'd have gave a shit

If I would've tried harder (Harder)
I would be all I can be
(Be all I can be, yeah)
If I would've tried harder (Harder)
I could have sailed the seven seas
(Sailed the seven seas, yeah
I could have sailed the seven seas)
If I would've tried harder (Harder)
I would be a better man
(Be a better man, yeah
I could have been a better man)
I guess I should've tried harder
(Tried harder) but, I didn't, so here I am
(Check it out, hmm, here I am)

Back in high school, this shit was a breeze
(It's easy)
I 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 taking them
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'd have thought that Peter was there
Or Jennifer Aniston rocking minimum
Pieces of flair
I couldn't imagine what would've happened
If God wouldn't have 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 (Ahh)
I wish I was as ambitious as 50 Cent
I could have went the same
Route him and Diddy went but alas

If I would've tried harder
(I wouldn't slack so much)
I would be all I can be
(Be all I can be, man)
If I would've tried harder
(Gotta pick up the pens)
I could have sailed the seven seas
(Sail the seven seas, gotta work much harder)
If I would've tried harder (If I would've)
I would be a better man (Be a better man
What would've happened? yeah)
I guess I should've tried harder
(What would've happened?)
But, I didn't, so here I am (Here I am)

Yeah, Michael Jordan, I ain't talking to you
Nope
Uh, Oprah Winfrey, I ain't talking to you
Nope bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, I
Ain't talking to y'all, nope
Tiger Woods, yeah
I possibly am talking to you
But Donald Trump, I ain't talking to you
To my man who's the Pope
I ain't talking to you
To Chuck Norris, I ain't talking to you
Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg
I ain't talking to you
Steve Jobs, rest in peace
But, I ain't talking to you
To my mannnnnnn Neil Armstrong
I ain't talking to you
Or Lance Armstrong, I ain't talking to you
If your name is something
That ends with Armstrong
I probably ain't talking to you, uh
It's Big Wax
My man Curtis D in the place to be
With my man Dave E on
The K-E to the Y-B-O-A-R-D
However you spell "keyboard", ha ha
Geographical like a Fjord
Or maybe a peninsula
Big Wax comin' through, always convincin'