Tom Pepe - Keep Tryin lyrics

[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 ha**le 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 pa**ionate with every word I'm speakin' If you feel it then just pa** 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 pa** the pipe I go to rap shows, wishin' they would pa** the mic - 'Cause they repeatin' what you heard like a cla** you don't like I'm back in the fight, ain't asking you twice It's only ignorance left so I pa** 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