This Girl I Know-Oddisee

[ti:This Girl I Know] [ar:Oddisee] [al:The Iceberg] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]This Girl I Know - Oddisee [00:11.34]I got a lover but it's complicated [00:13.09]We've been off and on trying to keep the fire warm [00:15.54]But a brother jaded [00:16.82]I've even moved up to brooklyn so that we could bond [00:18.96]Feel like I see her even less then when I lived away and [00:21.53]Suffocated by the city she ain't ever home [00:23.90]She in la or any other place that ain't my arms [00:26.66]Can't say she cheating because she was never mine alone [00:29.10]I just think I'm better for her than the drug dealers and the lie tellers [00:32.38]Yeah am I wise but I could be wrong [00:34.33]Please don't let be [00:35.17]I gave her time and a half while others get her free [00:37.77]And I ain't one to compare but what I see [00:39.97]Is her in a lesser form with anybody instead of me [00:42.68]We on a different page same play different stage [00:45.02]Waited on the street to say hi [00:46.60]I must have missed the wave await her call to come by [00:49.28]I know this girl around town [00:50.70]She cool she cool she cool [00:53.06]She coming around round [00:54.24]When no one around round [00:55.79]She come through come through she come through [00:58.11]We messing around round [00:59.53]Already for now now [01:00.87]We do what we do we do [01:03.02]But we know that for now now [01:04.61]Is only for now now [01:06.10]We through we through we through [01:08.15]But I still lover her though [01:09.66] [01:11.81]We've come a long way [01:13.07]Even though she keep me at arm's length [01:14.74]Over her head and she responds late [01:16.45]I place the blame on all them clowns that she round [01:18.66]Because intelligence ain't part of their style [01:20.41]Smarten up dumb it down [01:21.57]Drop a jewel rocking jewelry [01:22.80]The way you move done parted the crowd [01:24.70]And I know you did the knowledge before admitted to college [01:27.44]So why you hanging round with this foolery [01:29.36]The same lame's bragging how he bagged you dorm rooms [01:31.52] [01:32.14]Done tried to flip the mattress acting like he adore you [01:34.34]Same bed if it ain't all true [01:36.51]Why am I here [01:37.59]You know they lying through the locks and the beards [01:39.42]Although I'm faded I'm as sharp as they is [01:41.19]'Cause he ain't seen a barbershop in some years [01:42.94]Don't mean that he the one to lead us when apocalypse near [01:45.19]You know I'm right you see the light in the days [01:47.54]Final calling me I'll see you tonight aye [01:49.69]I know this girl around town [01:51.04]She cool she cool she cool [01:52.95]She coming around round [01:54.47]When no one around round [01:55.81]She come through come through she come through [01:57.96]We messing around round [01:59.46]Already for now now [02:00.86]We do what we do we do [02:02.91]But we know that for now now [02:04.63]Is only for now now [02:05.89]We through we through we through [02:07.81] [02:08.52]But I still lover her though [02:10.25]You ever love somebody that didn't reciprocate it [02:12.29]But they give you just enough to keep waiting [02:14.29]Thinking maybe they might see you how you see them with patience [02:16.68]Will come say when they quit faking on the heart that you gave them [02:19.45]But do you give it for gift or for the feeling itself [02:21.66]If nothing's in it for you would you still be willing to help [02:24.23]I think my love know me more than I give credit for [02:26.66]She made me greater even though I tell her that I'm better for her [02:29.21]But she done heard it before and she gone hear it again [02:31.69]It's plenty men that tried to holler in metaphor [02:33.55] [02:34.22]I'd love to talk to her but I talk through her [02:36.67]We speak our minds the same time and so I let her off [02:39.08]Am I the side piece or the main squeeze [02:41.18]Either way I'm filled with pride when I hear her thank me [02:43.62]So she can come and go as she please [02:45.51]She leave me 'lone but not in moments of need [02:47.40]Ain't only mine and maybe so it should be [02:49.39]I know this girl around town [02:51.04]She cool she cool she cool [02:52.91]She coming around round [02:54.67]When no one around round [02:55.78]She come through come through she come through [02:58.05]We messing around round [02:59.51]Already for now now [03:00.84]We do what we do we do [03:02.88]But we know that for now now [03:04.72]Is only for now now [03:05.81]We through we through we through [03:07.99]But I still lover her though