Built by Pictures - Oddisee

I was born with small access, to big dreams

And detached homes, and lazy boy couches were fit thrones that

Would sit kings

Lion statues on the fences larger than the castles they guarded Lawns made the

pastures pristine

A race with the have nots

Broke but the moat’s where the Jag’s parked

Doing dirty work but the whips clean

Notice the Jones’s

All of what they have is for the showing even notices on doors or foreclosures

I’m trying to get income, and then some ride around in something

The system bumping, the disk jumping, I’m rolling

A slight high from being able to buy

What you shouldn’t but you never knew why

Never mind, this the feeling I’ve been wanting for time

Flying blind, into a wall strong drawing to shine

I just looked at the pictures

Didn’t have a manual to build this

Just assemble it from feeling

By looking at pictures

I was given tools meant for building

With no instruction for the wielding

But look at the picture

It ain’t even close to the description

And yet it’s working as I wished it

By looking at pictures

And even though parts of it are missing

It’s still complete in the depiction

Started off trying to make a way

Then I made a wave that made a wage, that lay to waste

The paper chase that I was into race

But how you even stop this thing

I never learned so in turn, I’ma burn out breaks

Spend it faster than the churn out makes

But I’m a Phoenix, I went from ashes to classes

Shoebox to plastic, credit could buy what ever imagined

Developing habits I can’t kick

Man I was rocking cleats to a match full of baskets

Fast break, broke the safe trying to bask in

Sums that wasn’t real but ones and nils and they asking

Debit or credit?

The latter please

Climbing into debt without a sweat when it’s gradually

Had to make a couple mistakes that I couldn’t erase

Overdrawn but I turned out great

I just looked at the pictures

Didn’t have a manual to build this

Just assemble it from feeling

By looking at pictures

I was given tools meant for building

With no instruction for the wielding

But look at the picture

It ain’t even close to the description

And yet it’s working as I wished it

By looking at pictures

And even though parts of it are missing

It’s still complete in the depiction

I maneuver by example, good or bad, triumphs and tramples Something I couldn’t

grasp, I wouldn’t pass

I would rather struggle assembling what I can do, look at that

Little different but the differences make it what it isn’t

Is, is whatever I want to witness

Behold a vision outside of the city limits

Where time is more valued than money for the spending

Ascended to deeper things, never knew reasoning

Throwing random spices into life for the seasoning

Without a silver spoon, I couldn’t taste what I was prepping

My guesses made the wooden whip a problem to a question

Why do my people spend more and have less than?

No seat to eat the meal that we responsible for cheffing

Imagining the window was just a mirror reflection

I turned the sideline into a seat at the concession

I just looked at the pictures

Didn’t have a manual to build this

Just assemble it from feeling

By looking at pictures

I was given tools meant for building

With no instruction for the wielding

But look at the picture

It ain’t even close to the description

And yet it’s working as I wished it

By looking at pictures

And even though parts of it are missing

It’s still complete in the depiction