Oddisee - No Reservations lyrics

If I could make time
I wouldn't make nothing else
I feel like with time
Anything would probably make it'self
Evolution or incentive
I'm just trying to grow to
The point that my interests
Are taken care of by my interest
Then I take into account that
I'm preparing an account
To take care of me in the distance
Know a lot of homies that ain't got no plans
Know a lot of ladies that ain't got no mans
They'll settle for each other like
They got no chance
I ain't saying that you need a dude, nah
No ma'am
Use ma'am, understand you is not no grand
'Scuse me for being rude
Know it sounds so crass
But political correctness ain't my program


I'm PG, I was raised 'round a high-low class
Young, got me feeling like a dinosaur
I'm coming from an era where
We knew each other's business
But like diamonds in the ore
We just mined it more
They say that real becoming harder to find
Good news
Mean a lot of you is probably dying
Or moving out the city cause
Of all the property buying
Let alone cover rent for the crib each month
So you can move to LA where
You can still cheap stunt
Can I get a witness?
Black entrepreneur here
Can I get some business?
Taking out a loan, not asking for-givness
Just take away the stone
Hard place wasn't lifting
Cause it landed on me, I ain't land on it
Grandma never cussed like daggone it
Frustrated free, I'm picking locks
Cause time still sitting in a box

I ain't got no plans
Trying to keep it that way
I'm just trying to do what I want to do
Every hour, minute, second of the day
I never make reservations
I don't hold none neither
What I bring to the table is the truth
So I know I'm always right this way
I ain't got no plans
Trying to keep it that way
I'm just trying to do what I want to do
Every hour, minute, second of the day
I never make reservations
I don't hold none neither
What I bring to the table is the truth
So I know I'm always right this way

And I've been up late
Thinking I should move upstate
Get a farm in the middle of a
Town called Nowhere sounding
Like enough space
But, I like culture so near it grabs me
Agriculture I'd do it gladly
I think the answer is a loft in the middle of
The city and the roof where the plants be
Let's grow
Hustle real hard knowing nothing come easy
Party on the boulevard well let's go
I'ma take a rain check knowing
Any minute that the
Warm front ending and we all get snow
I ain't make the laws but I
Am trying to break them
And not get caught by the
Criminals that make them
Funny that the boss gets a pardon and the
Sargent get absolved when
The evidence blatant
A'salaam alaikum I'm just trying to
Get a peace from the
Patience of a saint in the belly of the beast
And the lowest in the rank think
The hardest in the tank
But we seldom get the credit so
We never get the lease
Sleeping on the streets be
The same ones paving
Walking on slaughter and the water ain't free
Floating with the attitude of y'all ain't me
And I had it just as bad as
You and now I made it
Well that's great then, though
Your triumph ain't erasing what I'm facing
So get up out my face with the conversations
Bout how you can relate then no
I'm the trenches, I'm riding on the train
Local shop owners here
I probably know their names
Surviving on the streets doing
Something like me
What you doing, man, nothing this week

I ain't got no plans
Trying to keep it that way
I'm just trying to do what I want to do
Every hour, minute, second of the day
I never make reservations
I don't hold none neither
What I bring to the table is the truth
So I know I'm always right this way
I ain't got no plans
Trying to keep it that way
I'm just trying to do what I want to do
Every hour, minute, second of the day
I never make reservations
I don't hold none neither
What I bring to the table is the truth
So I know I'm always right this way

I don't make easy to follow
Cause when I'm easy they come come round
And they come see me to borrow
They don't give props up, they pot holes
So around them how I go
Had that happen a few times
For me to view signs now quickly I know
Now quickly I know yeah this King Odd
Writer of the rhythm with the pristine bars
Keep it hard for me to ever see a loss
I'm only getting better while
The rest peel off this solid, not plated
Barter at the market that you'll
Never get away with your loss
I'm the favorite of your favorite
Ask him, wait for the reaction, and
He'll cough