Lifting Shadows - Oddisee

Just one dollar below 10K: that’s the amount I’m flying with

One more buck and the law comes out and they all want to know about why I’m rich

I’m not rich, I’m just on the way back to the land where they need this grip

You give yours to a charity fund, I give mine to a cuz that’s sick

You see your name and it on the list, scared I’m involved in the causing of pain

Lost somebody you loved in the towers and looking at me like I boarded the plane

I’m just an artist, you’re not a target: no use in arguing, we all look the same

With that knowledge I stay calm when they search for bombs all they find is

green

All in the name — I got a name that’ll scare all the brave in the land of the

free

All in the name of protecting a country that’s shooting its citizens dead in

the streets

I used to live in Northeast D.C., not too far from Capitol Hill

White House here, trap house there, they were so near you could go by feet

Never mind that cause that’s not news — let’s stay glued to the war on peace

Who gets blamed?

Whoever can sway that election towards what the order seeks

«We just want to keep oil cheap!

We just want to keep motors full»

What that mean?

Distractions came, I think my TV’s clothed in wool

Man, I swear I think my phone tapped

Man, I swear they watching all my moves

Since 9/11, ain’t too clear just who the target is

I love my country, hate its politics

Can’t just let me be

Can’t just let me live

Regardless my belief

I thought the fathers wrote it clear

But darkness all I see

And darkness all I hear

I’m trying to lift the shadow but the cloud ain’t got no give

Can’t just let me be

Can’t just let me live

Regardless my belief

I thought the fathers wrote it clear

But darkness all I see

And darkness all I hear

I’m trying to lift the shadow but the cloud ain’t got no give

I was on tour when the migrants came, saw their camps on side of the road

I met a boy who arrived in the rain, he lost his folks when they torched his

home

That made me want to bring my fam before they see that side of a drone

«But who wants us?

We build your world!»

It’s «labor's cool, neighbors no»

I got a cuz that’ll drive your taxi, I got a cuz that’ll make your food

I got a cuz that’ll watch your kids and pick them up when they’re done with

school

I got a cuz that’ll pump your gas, I got a cuz that’s good with tools

I got a cuz that’ll be your doctor after a test that I hope he’ll pass

Isn’t that what you fear most?

But fear don’t trump your needs

Our pros do trump our cons though.

And cons don’t trump your greed

And monsters' what you make of us and we make you succeed

And that’s what makes this country great, it’s built by those who bleed

It’s built by those who came on boats, it’s built by those who flee

And you forgot your family tree and we’re just all your leaves

So if you just try to chop us down you only hurt your knees

And we could go in pieces but we’d rather come in peace

Man, I swear I think my phone tapped

Man, I swear they watching all my moves

Since 9/11, ain’t too clear just who the target is

I love my country, hate its politics

Can’t just let me be

Can’t just let me live

Regardless my belief

I thought the fathers wrote it clear

But darkness all I see

And darkness all I hear

I’m trying to lift the shadow but the cloud ain’t got no give

Can’t just let me be

Can’t just let me live

Regardless my belief

I thought the fathers wrote it clear

But darkness all I see

And darkness all I hear

I’m trying to lift the shadow but the cloud ain’t got no give