[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 would've tried harder
I would be all I can be
If I would've tried harder
I could have sailed the seven seas
If I would've tried harder
I would be a better man
I guess I should've 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 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 (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 'em
But Craig and 'em 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 would've been like if I'd have gave a shit
[Chorus]
If I would've tried harder (Harder)
I would be all I can be (Be all I can be, yeah)
If I would've tried harder (Harder)
I could have sailed the seven seas (Sailed the seven seas, yeah, I could have sailed the seven seas)
If I would've tried harder (Harder)
I would be a better man (Be a better man, yeah, I could have been a better man)
I guess I should've 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)
I 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 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 (Ahh)
I wish I was as ambitious as 50 Cent
I could have went the same route him and Diddy went
But alas
[Chorus]
If I would've tried harder (I wouldn't slack so much)
I would be all I can be (Be all I can be, man)
If I would've tried harder (Gotta pick up the pens)
I could have sailed the seven seas (Sail the seven seas, gotta work much harder)
If I would've tried harder (If I would've)
I would be a better man (Be a better man, what would've happened? Yeah)
I guess I should've tried harder (What would've happened?)
But I didn't, so here I am (Here I am)

[Outro]
Yeah, Michael Jordan, I ain't talking to you, nope
Uh, Oprah Winfrey, I ain't talking to you, nope
Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, I ain't talking to y'all, 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 mannnnnnn 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, uh
It's Big Wax
My man Curtis D in the place to be
With my man Dave E on the K-E to the Y-B-O-A-R-D
However you spell "keyboard", ha-ha
Geographical like a Fjord
Or maybe a peninsula
Big Wax comin' through, always convincin'—