[Intro] Never had a flag. Never had a faction. Never had a side. They couldn't file me, couldn't classify me, couldn't decide. Too much of the block for the world, too much world for the block. So I stood in isolation. Built the monument off that. [Verse 1] Never repped affiliation, never folded in the faction Every regiment that beckoned only garnered a reaction Categorize the anomaly? They couldn't, so they cancelled me Analyzed and vandalized and left me off the balcony Too peculiar for the corner, too corner for the gallery Neutral in the enmity, an enemy of salary No allegiance to a dynasty, no fealty, no family crest Dined alone in irony, a banquet of the loneliness No entourage, no cavalry, no camaraderie, no company Just an appetite, adrenaline, an orphan on an odyssey They ain't have a category so the category vanished me The famishing, the vanishing, is exactly what established me [Hook] I belong to nobody, nobody, no Solitary sovereignty, I made it on my own Never took the co-sign, never joined a row The margin was my monastery, built it all alone No set, no side, no name but mine The outsider, the anomaly — and I'm fine [Verse 2] No plug, no pedigree, no put-on, no machinery Assembled it meticulously, brick by brick, no treasury I witnessed how a clique'll turn on anybody instantly The second that you deviate, they execute you privately That's precisely why I never wanted residency anywhere No kingdom or coalition got my signature or savoir-faire I'm a person, not a membership, accountable to me alone Every tribe that wanted all of me could leave me on my own Self-made, self-raised, the only ally in the archery My co-sign is the mirror and it never charged a larceny Seen belonging cost a casualty, seen loyalty go rancid So I keep the circle vacant and I answer to the anthem [Bridge] But I won't lie, it's arctic on the ledge that I selected Being nobody's constituency mean you're always unprotected There's a solitude in sovereignty they never set to melody Perpetually peripheral, I'm watching from the periphery But I'd elect it all again, each table that I set for one 'Cause the misfits and the outcasts are the only ones who ever won [Verse 3] See the very thing they punished me became the whole apparatus Not-belonging was the catalyst, the isolation was the status Every category I evaded turned into a lane I paved Now they analyze the maverick and replicate the wave I gave I'm the architect and archetype for anyone without a lineage The patron saint of vagabonds, self-anointed with no privilege They attempted to erase me but the erasure was the difference Made a monument of solitude, a permanent deliverance So salute the ones that operate alone and never signed the code We ain't lonely, we the prototype — we built a road that never showed [Breakdown] No flag (no flag), no set (no set), no side (no side) — solitary No plug (no plug), no crew, no clique, no commentary Rejected by the entirety, perfected in the solitary Every entryway they barricaded, I converted to a sanctuary Alone (alone), alone (alone) — watch the anomaly ascending The exile that they left for dead came back without amending No hand to hold the summit so the summit was an odyssey They couldn't claim or tame me, now they cannot even copy me Say it back — no set, no side (no set, no side!) No set, no side (no set, no side!) — the anomaly, and I never had to hide On my own (on my own) — resoundingly, triumphantly The unclaimed became the monument, and dynastically they honoring me [Outro] So no. I never joined nothing. Never had the necessity. Belong to yourself — it's the one sovereignty they can't seize. Marrow. Party of one.
