Oddisee - Belong To The World lyrics

Walk around the city by my lonesome
All that what I see is where the flow from
There's a million faces in the place to be
Get it where they fit in trying
Slip in which space is me within the sea
Am I unique or just another fish
To grow feet and walk a beach how most done
Evolvin' at a speed is hard to
See I'm in the chill lane
I be in the lobby in a
Party where I feel strange
Never was the cool dude
Never was a suave guy more like the odd guy
One that women are rude to
Never wanted to be the type
That they were used to
Now I'm flying somewhere overlooking a dream
And being overlooked did wonders
For my esteem now I get a lot of likes like
I'm the one that they grew to
Something I couldn't see when I
Belonged to the scheme
Separated from the cliques and
I created a team
It was me, Amir Mohamed, Oddisee is the squad
Much appreciation to 'em both of
Them gave me a job
Tried to tell 'em I ain't part
Of the commerce of art
They was "Like yeah you are, you smart"

I'm just trying to break out the mould
Trying to do the opposite of
Everything that I'm told
Try to put me in a box, already in a globe
So I don't get offended by
The thinking of the old
Where I'm at is where I go
And a circle ain't my thang
So it seems there were two gangs
Not enough, but too much changed
Two extremes and we are caught in the middle
Forever lost in the process to choose 'tween
Somebody ask what do you claim
I belong to the world

Save a seat for the quiet one
I'm working hard to make my ones able
There ain't a place that I don't call home
Was dropping beats at the lunch table
Now you can buy one
Gotta keep my funds stable
The Western world to me is all wrong
And Babylon becoming unstable
Don't wanna die young
I'm making moves like the
Ice caps staying hot with a tight track
Never spoiled I don't want labels
If you can find one
Take it that they all wrong
I'm feeling to unchain you
And liberate you from the
Wall Streets you occupy
There's a lot of sky and underneath
It a lot of pie
And you don't need a bigger plate
Just a smaller stomach
You fed up on the feeling once
And you convinced you want it
Well go and get it, be another statistic
Bit off more than you can chew
And so you started to vomit
I don't go that route, I don't hang with them
I just go around the globe and
Not a turn for the stunting
And keep it all in house
The world is my backyard
Don't try and break my fence, nah

I'm just trying to break out the mould
Trying to do the opposite of
Everything that I'm told
Try to put me in a box, already in a globe
So I don't get offended by
The thinking of the old
Where I'm at is where I go
And a circle ain't my thang
So it seems there were two gangs
Not enough, but too much changed
Two extremes and we are caught in the middle
Forever lost in the process to choose 'tween
Somebody ask what do you claim
I belong to the world

What's a clique, what's a crew, what's a gang
To a brother who been doing
This thing all along i belong to my name
That's the only set I claim
I ain't bothered by the politics
Of fame i perform, they
Put on, that's the norm
Trying to get me on a song like
Baller this, shooter that
Then they got wrong mic
This the wrong platform
They about the wrong life
This is for the people I'm just
Trying to cut a path forward
Trying make some music for the
Future that will last long
Though the never ask for it
I'ma give it to 'em, I'ma give it to 'em
Pioneering tunes and forever I'ma
Live through 'em word to Bob Marley he
Put memories in melodies
It's relevant in the present though he
Made it in the 70's
That right there was telling me the
Classic where it better be
And if it ain't then it don't
Deserve to represent the pedigree
Part of the solution, or part of the problem
All the moving parts in the process revolving
What are you involved in, answered my calling
I belong to the world