[00:06.920] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[00:09.790] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times
[00:12.981] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[00:16.498] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times
[00:19.659] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[00:22.901] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times
[00:26.030] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[00:29.039] Hard times (Hard), hard times (Hard)
[00:31.740] You never know how much you miss a person, until they gone
[00:34.974] Like to hear it? Hear it go, I'm rehearsing, gotta sing my song
[00:38.094] I know I've done some wrong, but I can't get right
[00:40.901] Cause life is like a big fight
[00:42.463] I'm stickin'-and-movin', tryin' to get my shit right
[00:44.952] My family's been houndin me, friends they done turned against me
[00:47.929] Kinda like they hearts was on a full tank, but now they empty
[00:51.081] And they say I've changed, but like twins I'm just the same
[00:54.025] It's because of my job, mo' money mo' prob in this dirty game
[00:57.374] This industry ****ed up
[00:58.438] That's right I said it, and it's fake as ever
[01:00.646] Keep real niggas around me, stay Space Age 4 Eva
[01:03.811] Poppa never went and jumped the broom, never got that one degree
[01:07.202] But if you looked down from heaven, you'd still be proud of me
[01:10.673] Your son was DUI, but my momma made it by
[01:13.708] I didn't shed no tears when you left me
[01:15.605] But the rest of the family cried
[01:17.037] Trials and tribulations, ruined my concentration
[01:19.761] Losin' my patience, hard times for goodness sake'n
[01:23.426] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[01:26.682] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times
[01:29.851] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[01:32.929] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times
[01:36.202] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[01:39.363] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times
[01:42.605] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[01:45.742] Hard times (Hard), hard times (Hard)
[01:48.568] As this Valium slowly starts to kick in
[01:51.268] Them subconcious, subliminal thoughts, start tickin'
[01:54.868] This whole world around me, diseased, and crumblin'
[01:58.217] Babies doing dope cause daddy did it right in front of them
[02:01.480] Everybody wanna blame music for they bad kids
[02:04.748] Sittin' up in the court talking 'bout Eminem made me do what I did
[02:08.000] My own hard times rolled in like the fog
[02:11.196] Try to think of others, but I can't get past my own thoughts
[02:14.504] My momma, in 1967, pickin' cotton
[02:17.755] While other blacks was gettin' liberated, boycottin'
[02:20.857] My old man was a player, ain't no hidin' that
[02:23.959] He started tootin' then he graduated to smokin' crack
[02:27.205] I never saw him, never needed to see that muh'****er
[02:30.410] He left me and my mother stuck down here in this ****in' gutter
[02:33.634] I tattoed it on my arm so I can't forget it
[02:36.749] It's in my mind and my heart so I'm forever with it
[02:40.072] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[02:43.317] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times
[02:46.443] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[02:49.545] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times
[02:52.657] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[02:55.973] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times
[02:59.170] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[03:02.348] Hard times (Hard), hard times (Hard)
[03:05.563] A drum machine, the old fo'-track, and a pack of new tapes
[03:08.404] In the middle of, 1988, in a corner cafe
[03:11.564] We made beats, and hung with old heads, and stayed out late at night
[03:14.807] Do talent shows, fo'-way split the dough, that was our way of life
[03:18.047] My momma stayed, home full time so she could raise me
[03:21.120] Knowin' without a, household father, things could get crazy
[03:24.246] Sometimes I listened, sometimes I thought I knew it all
[03:27.234] But nevertheless, momma was with me through it all
[03:30.450] I graduated out of nothin', not out of school, it was like
[03:33.995] 12, 13, 14 years I'm thinkin' cool
[03:36.997] I might as well, be focusin' on me tryin' to get paid
[03:40.041] Usin' these rhymes I've been writin' since in the 7th grade
[03:43.324] Our team played, and had physical sex with minimum wage
[03:46.439] It was just like a piece of pussy
[03:48.187] It ****ed me long as I stayed
[03:49.768] But still I prayed, Lord I'm tryin' now please help me out the water
[03:53.040] It can't get no harder
[03:53.970] Help me to get back up and get my shit tomorrow
[03:56.734] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[03:59.862] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times
[04:03.013] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[04:05.992] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times
[04:09.405] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[04:12.709] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times
[04:15.830] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[04:18.846] Hard times (Hard), hard times (Hard)
[04:22.168] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[04:25.409] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times
[04:28.462] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[04:31.472] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times
[04:34.863] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[04:38.079] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times
[04:41.328] I'm tryin' to make it through these hard times (Hard times)
[04:44.227] Hard times (Hard), hard times (Hard)