Knowmads - My First Song (Keep Tryin’) lyrics

Look, to tell the truth y'all
- I'm feeling pretty lost
I was trying to be a boss but
They nailed me to a cross
Cut open my head so that
They can read my thoughts
Blessed with this gift but it came at a cost
I be cursed in my own mind
Hurts when I don't rhyme
Workin' on my verses like I'm
Searching through a gold mine
Lately I've been faced with reality
Even college graduates barely got a salary
Rappers think they fat but they
Barely got a calorie grew up in Seattle
Where they used to call me Casualty
Because I never backed down
From a battle scene life is good but it damn
Sure ain't hassle free
An MC, well it's sort of what I had to be
My life is one big beautiful catastrophe
I take a rap beat, turn it into a masterpiece
A starving artist
I ain't leaving 'til I had a feast
There's some things that I had to
Experience to stop being oblivious
And take life serious
I'm so tired everyday I feel delirious
Only livin' for the people
Who be hearing this
I make music cause see that's
Where all my spirit is
The definition of a heart felt lyricist
Hard to find
It don't matter what year this is
Nearly died now I'm livin'
With this fearlessness
Like whatever gonna happen
Hope it happens for a reason
If it don't well then I'm coast
Still be happy that I'm eating
Life ain't fair
That's why I'm rappin' instead of preachin'
So I'm absolutely passionate with
Every word I'm speakin'
If you feel it then just pass it on
It's more people I'm reachin
A student of the truth but it's
The youth that I be teachin'
If you breathing in the air
Seeing things ain't really fair
Make a difference because you can instead
Of livin' like you isn't there
Most nights well I feel like I have to write
My life's a chess game -
Seeing things black and white
We live like animals
Thinkin' of the afterlife
It's overwhelming so we drinkin' or
We pass the pipe i go to rap shows
Wishin' they would pass the mic -
'Cause they repeatin' what you heard like
A class you don't like
I'm back in the fight
Ain't asking you twice It's
Only ignorance left so I pass on the right
And -
And I keep tryin'
Giving you my soul but I know it
Ain't the one that you buying
And I keep runnin'
Feeling all alone but I know I
Didn't come here with nothing
And I keep tryin'
Giving you the real yo I feel
What I know that you lying
And I keep tryin'
Giving you my soul but I know it
Ain't the one that you buying
And I keep tryin', yo I keep tryin'
And I keep tryin
Giving you my soul but I know it
Ain't the one that you buying
Still I keep tryin, yeah - I keep tryin'
I keep tryin'
Giving you my soul but I know it
Ain't the one that you buying