You know I've been trying so hard for you baby I really done the best that I could Woman, you know I've been trying so hard It's all I do night and day baby You know, wooh - woman Trying trying trying trying The path was full of twilight, uncertainty lay ahead! I had a mind to keep on drinking Yeah and go on until I was dead Go sleepy to the graveyard and take my rest Like the petrified relic of some long-forgotten cares A mechanical/reactional, alchemically habitual, genetically dysfunctional fool I'm a nice guy but if I'm insincere I'll be Straight with you, straight with you, always be straight with you You know I've been trying so hard for you baby I really done the best that I could Yeah! I've been trying so hard It's all I do night and day baby You know, wooh - woman Trying trying trying