you can make it if you try you can make it if you try you can make it if you try whoa yeah you can make it if you try sometime you ll have to cry sometime you ll have to lie you re gonna live until you die whoa yeah you can make it if you try if your baby treats you wrong don t go around singing the blues remember my friend everybody can t win somebody somebody s got to lose you can make it if you try you can make it if you try you can make it if you try whoa yeah you can make it if you try