When I Stopped Looking

[Produced by Markis Precise] [Intro: Oddisee] Yo... yeah... uhh... Yo... yeah... it's Oddisee on the mic... yeah... [Verse 1: Oddisee] Me and my lonesome roaming Streets like I'm legion, Roman Searching for reasons hoping This earth ain't for heathens holding Onto beliefs corroding This bread that they feed us, molding Looking ahead at oceans just keeping my head afloat and That moment I notice leaves and they growing more than my trees I was focused on overseas, now my deeds are completely frozen Get back to me, I'm coasting Keep open for breezes blowing No wind or signs of sea ain't designed for no weezy showing Come with me though for real like Real life ain't golden, feel like it's more like some coal And the pressure molding my soul to real nice Boulders on shoulders get hype in over the closing This light ain't glowing at night but it's bright enough So I go and realize I see in the dark What I couldn't see when the sun was spark Part of me found relief in a harder sleep over thought Deep is the dream I caught in a stream I seem to have fought And I let it go and it came back when I stopped looking How about that [Hook: Oddisee] I've spent some time alone, I'm out here on my own I'm looking forward, don't wanna be found but I'm a going And keep on searching for it, it's out there so I explore it But when I chose to ignore it, that's of course when I found it When I stopped looking Found it when I stopped looking Found it when I stopped looking Found it when I stopped looking I found it when I stopped looking Found it when I stopped looking Found it when I stopped looking Found it when I stopped looking [Verse 2: Oddisee] It is a space that I'm trying to be in Tired of being in line to wait So I stepped aside and I pushed ahead There's no finding peace with no signs of bleeding Saw the ledge in the world that we in I made the plan and it's time to lace And if I should fall or land on my face Then I see the scrapes as a part of me in Moving along, there's no choice in that We all on the path, but ain't all agreeing Different laps for the different factions In the school of thought that we hold degree in Graduated to the truth and all Now enter all with the youth involved We got a bigger dish and need more to fill And there's smaller fish that you dissolve I'm searching for what we disregard As a waste of time and that's time itself And that's the only thing that I can't obtain Without getting less than I've give and dealt My cards is all, and my steezing fell I was cheating laws and I needed help Lesson learned, I was less concerned With a lended hand, with aggressive burns But that past mistake could be a future great Refuse to grab what you could choose to take Advise to act like a know-it-all but that's typical, that's protocol But when you evolve to a higher height You see the game from the inner-outs Found the space that I was looking for There all along, in a missing boat, yeah [Hook: Oddisee] I've spent some time alone, I'm out here on my own I'm looking forward, don't wanna be found but I'm a going And keep on searching for it, it's out there so I explore it But when I chose to ignore it, that's of course when I found it When I stopped looking Found it when I stopped looking Found it when I stopped looking Found it when I stopped looking I found it when I stopped looking Found it when I stopped looking Found it when I stopped looking Found it when I stopped looking