Keep Tryin

[Verse: Tom Pepe] 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... - [Hook: Tom Pepe] 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