Wax - I Shoulda Tried Harder lyrics

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Nobody’s perfect

Yeah, it’s Big Wax on the balcony

Laying back, relaxed

Yo, I spent a lot of time making this music

And I put food on my table with it and all that

But sometimes I can’t help but look back

And wonder how things could’ve been

If I woulda tried harder

I would be all I can be

If I woulda tried harder

I could have 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

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

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

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

They're just sitting 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 woulda tried harder

I would be all I can be

If I woulda tried harder

I could have 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

Back in high school, the shit was a breeze

I smoked a bunch of trees and I still got B's

Got high as fuck on my SAT's

Smoked 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

I wish I was as ambitious as 50 Cent

I could have went the same route him and Diddy went

But alas

If I woulda tried harder

I would be all I can be

If I woulda tried harder

I could have 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

Michael Jordan, I ain't talking to you, nope

Oprah Winfrey, I ain't talking to you, nope

Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, I ain't talking to ya'll, 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 man 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