What You Were Lookin' For - Oddisee, Apollo Brown

I came into the city with the vision

Me as my witness, list is shorter than listening

Spans, iron to aim, this is no different plan

Kitchen fans, working around the clock for the higher flames

Sit or stand, get ahead

Bet on that I wouldn’t though

Everyone’s a star believing space is their entire gang

Adopted that mind of frame

Couldn’t go behind the grain

Would you know

Jumped out that line and speeded time of thangs

This a race and I ain’t slow

Even with declining grays

Reading on my own forever being in the climbing phase

This is what the shining takes

Focus on the minor thangs will have you in the club

When you should really be designing thangs

I don’t know what grinding takes

I just know why I’mma make

Dinner plans, busy now but fine by 8:00

Making reservations for the future that ain’t mine by fate

Building with the pictures cause the manuals designed to break

What’s in store

I hope you find what you was looking for

There ain’t nothing 'round here but work (yeah, yeah)

I hope you find what you was looking for

I just call it how I see it from first (yeah, yeah)

I hope you find what you was looking for

This ain’t the city where your dreams are conceived (nah)

This ain’t the place where you’ll be fine at your pace (nah)

This ain’t the city where you come to breathe (nah)

This is the place where you can learn from mistakes and leave

Pack up that U-Haul

Next to answer will never remember how did you fall

Hit his bottom list and get caught in this artist stiff with a bunch of call in

quits

Will probably sniff the heart on your sleeve;

true loss

I live in the belly of the nemesis of Ishmael

Where you are more likely to see December in this hill

Before you beat the bell or the buzzer you’ll meet your ending quick

Better swift then left here to bleed, I mean I guess it is

I came here to conquer and and conquer is what I did

I heard the myth of monsters but those are stories for kids

The city never sleeps, I mean that’s a product of fear

But me?

I’m catching Z’s like I earn a stripe with a spear

I see these people hunting for something with no direction

No discretion, no lessons, no motive, no loaded weapon

Where ever they could get ain’t worth catching, guess what they left with

A whole lot of questions