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[00:03.61]I ain't gonna try no more
[00:09.33]I ain't gonna try no more
[00:15.22]I'm just gonna do it
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[00:24.23]Flowers don't have to try to bloom
[00:28.01]They just bloom
[00:29.84]The sun don't have to try to shine
[00:33.78]It just do
[00:35.50]So why do I have to try to be
[00:41.08]Something other than me
[00:46.68]I'm tryna stay real for me
[00:52.25]And tryna stay true for you
[00:58.04]What you expect for me to do
[01:02.09]When tryin' doesn't work like it's supposed to
[01:06.75]I ain't gonna try
[01:11.51]I ain't gonna try no more
[01:14.69]I ain't gonna try no more, no
[01:23.15]I'm just gonna do it, yes
[01:31.22]If there's ever anything I try to be
[01:37.52]It's someone who speaks with honesty
[01:43.14]A person who won't take personally
[01:48.48]Or make assumptions about things that people say to me
[01:54.24]I'll take it for what it is
[02:00.68]No more, no less
[02:05.64]Accept it as motivation
[02:10.54]For me to do my best
[02:15.29]I tried school, it was cool, aced all my classes
[02:18.29]Tried working with the youth, but they some rude ass kids
[02:21.16]Tried corporate America, you know the suit and tie thing
[02:24.24]Took a couple years to figure out that it wasn't my thing
[02:27.11]Money was nice, but I didn't have a life
[02:29.43]Plus it put my whole game for a wife on ice
[02:32.26]And I don't even watch sports, but I was feeling like a hockey puck
[02:35.55]Let me quit before I go postal and they lock me up
[02:38.35]Hit the studio, hit them other continents
[02:40.70]My records hit the shelves, they hit me with compliments
[02:43.66]I was tryin' new things, sorta tryin' to sing
[02:46.70]Some people was like "What the hell is you doing?"
[02:49.49]Look at him, ah, he just tryin' to be different
[02:52.36]But I wasn't tryin', I am, look at my pigment
[02:55.28]And look where I grew up at, and look where I been
[02:57.87]No don't ever try to tell me that I'm tryin' again
[03:00.32]I'm just doin' it
[03:02.72]Just bein' me
[03:04.27]It's all I ever wanted to be
[03:07.36]I don't try, I'm just doin' it
[03:17.84]I don't try, I'm just doin' it
[03:28.96]I don't try, I'm just doin' it
[03:41.41]I don't try, I'm just doin' it
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