Trying To Make It

[Intro]
(Trying to make it)
Yeah
(Trying to make it)
Yeah, yeah
(Trying to make it)

[Verse 1]
Workin' on this job, I've got it hard every day
(Trying to make it)
Yeah, oh yeah
(Trying to make it)
Tryna earn enough so I can leave this place
(Trying to make it)
Yeah, oh yeah
(Trying to make it)
The woman I got back home, she don't understand
(Trying to make it)
Yeah, oh yeah
(Trying to make it)
That I'm supportin' one (?) baby the best I can
(Trying to make it)
Yeah, oh yeah

[Chorus]
I work all day but I
Never seem to get ahead

[Verse 2]
You write me foolish letters each and every day
(Trying to make it)
Yeah, oh yeah
(Trying to make it)
Tellin' me that I should come back home and stay
(Trying to make it)
Yeah, oh yeah
(Trying to make it)
She's the most mixed up woman that I've ever saw
(Trying to make it)
Yeah, oh yeah
(Trying to make it)
I think I should send her back to my mother-in-law
(Trying to make it)
Yeah, oh yeah
(Trying to make it)

[Chorus]
I work all night but
Nothin' ever seem to work out right, yeah

[Bridge]
She stays on my mind all the time (whoa yeah)
I never can rest in peace
Every time I lie down and try to sleep
Someone's sayin' here's a message for me
Well, I wouldn't

[Verse 3]
I could catch the train tomorrow by four
(Trying to make it)
Yeah, oh yeah
(Trying to make it)
I'd go back home to the woman I know
(Trying to make it)
Yeah, oh yeah
(Trying to make it)
Because she have got me with the blues
(Trying to make it)
Yeah, oh yeah
(Trying to make it)
She wrote and told me that she need a new pair of shoes
(Trying to make it)
Yeah, oh yeah
(Trying to make it)

[Chorus]
I work all day, but I
Never seem to get enough pay, yeah
I said I work all night, but
Nothin' ever seem to work out right

[Outro]
It don't work out right
Don't work out right
Just don't work out right
Oh yeah