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I've Tried ft. Chino XL

from I Am Water by Jesse Abraham

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Effort / Effort to grow and to improve / To progress / I’ve tried to, to be excellent / With no regrets / That shit’s not easy / They say a lesson’s more impressive than a blessing / I've tried to learn by sweating / I’m just guessing that earning is more deserving and worthy of your attention / Never trusted my senses / It’s a justified sentence / My two sense is try adjusting my lens, it’s defenseless / Now I can see better / Heavens have sent me to breathe letters / So keep your green cheddar / Given nothing but reasons to quit / Not talking bout spittin / I’m talking bout slittin a wrist / You getting the jist? / But I'm fin’ to persist cuz I love to exist / Give a hug and a kiss to my mother and sister / And on the seventh day God took a rest / But I'm not into resting / Life's just too interesting / And I ain’t made a universe so what am I restin for? / Rest assured I think the best's in store / And I'm a test it til my chest is sore / They say that less is more / Then they invest in wars / They stay obsessed with oil / I'm dressin warm and when we storm the pentagon with weapons drawn / To settle the score I’ll revel in awe / Pepper my sweater with veteran thoughts / Quotes from Emerson and Jefferson represents rhetoric in how to be better than flawed / I've tried my best to become a beloved righteous man / In the dark, holding the torch to the violence that's in my heart / (It's the spark) / To start a revolution of the mind / But I find that I am more of an animal type / With a knife swipe that'll have you bleeding by pints / (Most nights) / I fights with my inner self / My sinner self / My Eddie Vedder Jeremy better get some help but I am somewhere else / (Where) / Lost would be too small of a word / I sort of preferred / Philosophers once told me that my death has been greatly encouraged / 
But I submerged / My sin is the curse / With administers courage / I swam to the depths of hell where my corpse had once furnished / Burning in the furnace but my spirits surfaced / Thus acquiring skeletal wings that could not be purchased / Destroying enemies of the art form became my soul's sole purpose / Once my words are transmitted / The core of the earth is shifted / The orbiting worlds tilted / The curse of my verse lifted / Your neck is so exposed I slit it / Committed to spittin venom through time continuums / Rippin the voice boxes of the lineages of those who don't rhyme legitimate / 
I plead innocent / Wickedest citizens / Is it my imagination figment / That I could tear a motherfucker’s bones through his ligaments? / Minus the cheap bravado / Big Chino with the deepest styles / That run wild like bulimia in Victoria's Secret models / You feel it? / You feel it? /You feel it? / You feel it? / You feel it? / You feel it? / You feel it? / Yo / Feel that water inside? / I ain’t got nothing to hide / You could end up in hot water when you skatin on thin ice / That separation divides / We needed both of those sides / I ain’t got nothing to hide / Y’all got nothing but hype / When the water starts to boil / Why not keep the fire on high? / I ain’t got nothing to hide / Y’all got nothing but hype / I'm not bluffin or lying / I'm not puffin with pride / I write with ink so permanently / Y’all are pencils bein led / We / Feel that water inside / I got nothing to hide / The goal's the journey and I'm learning all the time / God knows that I've tried / All I know is survive / I ain’t got nothing to hide / Y’all got nothing but hype / Your mind is fine / So just unwind / Stay unified / I am water / You are wine / There ain’t no reason to whine / There ain’t no reason to cry / I ain’t got nothing but time / I ain’t got nothing to hide / I ain’t got nothing to hide / I ain’t got nothing to hide

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from I Am Water, released January 29, 2014
Prod. Spills
Featuring Chino XL

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Jesse Abraham Brooklyn, New York

UMA Lyricist of the Year Jesse Abraham was born in NYC. His debut LP, One Day, spent weeks on DJBooth’s Top 5 & was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2011 Underground Music Awards. In '12, HipHopDX declared him their “DXNext” artist, right at the start of Abraham’s push towards his next full-length LP, the project entitled I Am Water, scheduled for a 1/29/13 drop via Fat Beats Records. ... more

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