The Man I'm Tryin' To Be

I ain't perfect

But every morning I wake up

I'm just tryna be a little better

Than the man I was yesterday

Alarm clock ring kids feet hit the floor

I'm rubbin sleep out my eyes headed to that door

Lunches in the bag kisses on they heads

Sayin Daddy love you before the day spread

Got a hard working wife also fightin her own fight

Tryna hold this house together every day and night

I ain't always easy but she still choose me

So I lace up my boots and try to be who they need

Some days I stumble some days I fall

But I keep hearin that little voice call

I'm just tryna be the man my family sees in me

The hero in the eyes of my little three

I ain't got it all together but I'm on my knees

Askin God to fill the gaps in the man I'm tryin to be

Yeah I'm workin on my flaws learnin how to stay

Talkin bout love more than I run away

I ain't perfect but I'm growin see

Step by step I'm the man I'm tryin to be

I remember bein young sayin I'll never be him

Swore I'd break them cycles learn how to swim

But I caught myself raisin my voice too loud

Sayin words that woulda broke my younger self down

So now when I'm tired and my patience thin

I take a deep breath count slow to ten

Cause my babies don't need another wounded king

They need a man that knows how to heal his own thing

I lay my pride down at the end of the day

And this is what my heart gotta say

I'm just tryna be the man my family sees in me

The hero in the eyes of my little three

I ain't got it all together but I'm on my knees

Askin God to fill the gaps in the man I'm tryin to be

Yeah I'm workin on my flaws learnin how to stay

Talkin bout love more than I run away

I ain't perfect but I'm growin see

Step by step I'm the man I'm tryin to be

One day my son gon stand where I stand

My girls gon choose they own kind of man

I want em to say Daddy showed us the way