I Shoulda Tried Harder

[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're 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'—