Belong to the World - Oddisee

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