Try - Jelani Blackman

Disposable

But untearable

More like paper plates

From those days

Non-negotiable

But unwearable

Like the mask we try to fake

Needed a moment alone

Needed you over the phone

Needed you anywhere there

How could you tell me that I never cared?

Your feelings were spared 'cause of me

'Cause I never shared properly

And probably why we can’t survive

But still we try and

Still we

Try, try, try till we don’t

Try, try, try till we won’t

Bought me an AC/DC t-shirt

Why, when you know I like grime?

But we try, try, try till we don’t

Try, try, try till we won’t

Bought you an Outkast album

Never had time to listen

Nah nah you didn’t

Nah nah you didn’t

Nah nah you didn’t

Bought you an Outkast album

Never had time to listen

Nah nah nah

Calico skin

Soft but unbearable

Like close air in the heat

Devotional

But unquenchable

Like our thirst for bittersweet

Needed a moment alone

Needed you over the phone

Needed you anywhere there

How could you tell me that I never cared?

Your feelings were spared 'cause of me

'Cause I never shared properly

And probably why we can’t survive

But still we try and

Still we

Try, try, try till we don’t

Try, try, try till we won’t

Bought me an AC/DC t-shirt

Why, when you know I like grime?

But we try, try, try till we don’t

Try, try, try till we won’t

Bought you an Outkast album

Never had time to listen

Nah nah you didn’t

Pleasure, pleasure

Pain, pain

Pleasure, pleasure

Pain, pain

Pleasure, pleasure

Pain, pain

Pleasure, pain

Pleasure, pain

Pain, pain, pain pain

Pain pain pain pain

Pain

Pleasure

So we try, try, try till we don’t

Try, try, try till we won’t

Bought me an AC/DC t-shirt

Why, when you know I like grime?

But we try, try, try till we don’t

Try, try, try till we won’t

Bought you an Outkast album

Never had time to listen

Nah nah you didn’t

Nah nah you didn’t

Nah nah you didn’t

Bought you an Outkast album

Never had time to listen

Nah nah nah nah