This Girl I Know-Oddisee

[00:11.29]I got a lover but it's complicated [00:13.00]We've been off and on, trying to keep the fire warm [00:15.57]But a brother jaded [00:16.78]I've even moved up to Brooklyn so that we could bond [00:19.01]Feel like I see her even less then when I lived away and [00:21.90]Suffocated by the city she ain't ever home [00:24.17]She in LA or any other place that ain't my arms [00:26.59]Can't say she cheating because she was never mine alone [00:29.21]I just think I'm better for her than the drug dealers and the lie tellers [00:32.60]Yeah am I wise but I could be wrong [00:34.26]Please don't let be [00:35.48]I gave her time and a half while others get her free [00:37.71]And I ain't one to compare but what I see [00:39.92]Is her in a lesser form with anybody instead of me [00:42.58]We on a different page, same play different stage [00:45.19]Waited on the street to say hi, I must have missed the wave Await her call to come by [00:50.16]I know this girl around town [00:50.81]She cool, she cool, she cool [00:53.42]She coming around, round [00:55.08]When no one around, round [00:55.92]She come through, come through, she come through [00:58.33]We messing around, round [00:59.74]Already for now, now [01:01.25]We do, what we do, we do [01:03.36]But we know that for now, now [01:04.61]Is only for now, now [01:05.78]We through, we through, we through [01:08.50]But I still lover her though [01:11.07]We've come a long way [01:13.24]Even though she keep me at arm's length [01:14.95]Over her head and she responds late [01:16.71]I place the blame on all them clowns that she round [01:18.78]Because intelligence ain't part of their style [01:20.53]Smarten up dumb it down [01:21.73]Drop a jewel rocking jewelry [01:22.84]The way you move done parted the crowd [01:25.15]And I know you did the knowledge before admitted to college So why you hanging round with this foolery [01:29.47]The same lame's bragging how he bagged you dorm rooms [01:31.79]Done tried to flip the mattress acting like he adore you [01:34.26]Same bed, if it ain't all true [01:36.83]Why am I here [01:37.59]?You know they lying through the locks and the beards [01:39.40]Although I'm faded I'm as sharp as they is [01:41.25]'Cause he ain't seen a barbershop in some years [01:47.40]Don't mean that he the one to lead us when apocalypse near You know I'm right, you see the light in the days [01:49.96]Final calling me I'll see you tonight aye [01:51.22]I know this girl around town [01:51.92]She cool, she cool, she cool [01:53.62]She coming around, round [01:54.91]When no one around, round [01:55.76]She come through, come through, she come through [01:58.38]We messing around, round [01:59.75]Already for now, now [02:00.70]We do, what we do, we do [02:03.43]But we know that for now, now [02:04.59]Is only for now, now [02:06.01]We through, we through, we through [02:10.43]You ever love somebody that didn't reciprocate it [02:12.59]But they give you just enough to keep waiting [02:14.49]Thinking maybe they might see you how you see them with patience [02:16.05]Will come say when they quit faking on the heart that you gave them [02:17.56]But do you give it for gift or for the feeling itself [02:21.77]If nothing's in it for you would you still be willing to help [02:24.24]I think my love know me more than I give credit for [02:26.55]She made me greater even though I tell her that I'm better for her [02:29.05]But she done heard it before and she gone hear it again [02:31.45]It's plenty men that tried to holler in metaphor [02:33.84]I'd love to talk to her but I talk through her [02:36.45]We speak our minds the same time and so I let her off [02:39.01]Am I the side piece or the main squeeze [02:40.36]Either way I'm filled with pride when I hear her thank me [02:43.83]So she can come and go as she please [02:45.50]She leave me 'lone but not in moments of need [02:47.05]Ain't only mine and maybe so it should be [02:49.71]I know this girl around town [02:51.06]She cool, she cool, she cool [02:53.27]She coming around, round [02:54.62]When no one around, round [02:55.47]She come through, come through, she come through [02:58.21]We messing around, round [03:00.17]Already for now, now [03:00.76]We do, what we do, we do [03:03.08]But we know that for now, now [03:04.23]Is only for now, now [03:05.88]We through, we through, we through [03:08.29]But I still lover her though