I Tried - Jess Klein

My lover looks me in the eye

Says, baby, you failed me

If your love is really true

Why don’t I feel set free?

Bail me out, baby

I’m not meant for this prison cell

So I fought for him

How could I know he’d brought it on himself?

So now I’d like to say

Final score aside

That even though I failed in your eyes

I tried

I tried

So I bailed him out with all my cash

I bailed him out with my love

Distracted all the prison guards

With storms I begged from above

I even pulled the warden over to one side

I said me for him

It’s fair I swear

My penance for his pride

So now I’d like to say

Final score aside

That even though I failed in your eyes

I tried

I tried

With all the pain in this world that my love

Could go to change

How could I fail in freeing only one man

From his own cage?

You know, it hurts to think of him

Cursing me for leaving

And it hurts to think of me

No longer believing

But in the end he told me

Sorry isn’t good enough

And it finally occurred to me

Why his life is so damn rough

So now I’d like to say

Final score aside

That even though I failed in your eyes

I know I hurt you

Maybe I lied

So blame me ‘til the day that I die

But I tried

I tried

I tried

I tried

I tried