Dreams
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Lungs full of pine tar, kush walks the city
The singer is high and walking around the city.

Scape of scrappy captains
The city is full of tough, scrappy people.

Capes tucked in the aftermath of unassuming blurprints not suitable for bombings
The singer sees people in capes, leftover from some sort of plan or plot that didn't happen.

The fires are alarming
There are fires in the city that are concerning.

The fire alarms are oddly calming
The sound of the fire alarms is actually soothing to the artist.

A water beetle jitterbugs in litter
The singer sees a beetle moving quickly through trash on the ground.

Kitty cats across the sidewalk after rats are fat enough to die happy
Cats are chasing rats that have grown fat and lived happy lives.

The savvy climb the nail-less pine staircase
The smartest people are climbing a staircase made of pine without nails.

[?] Jesus walks to where the [?] and the streets aren't even matter
There is someone walking with Jesus to a place where nothing else matters.

So they don't
The streets don't matter in this place.

No one pays no nevermind
No one is paying attention to anything in this place.

Higher than the ever-resting deities of better times
The artist is higher than any god or deity associated with better times.

Here the sun refracts so much the prisons look like prisms
The sun is shining brightly and reflecting so much that the prisons look like rainbow prisms.

Rainbow chains ain't shit but long division
The rainbow chains are not significant, they are like the process of long division.

A vision of a suited black man peddling dream logic overlooks a park bench
The singer sees a well-dressed black man selling the idea of chasing dreams while watching a park bench.

Kids kaleidoscope into an arch and two by two are Lorax'd off the block
Children are turning into a colorful arch and then disappearing in pairs, like in the story of the Lorax who speaks for the trees.

The floods are warm and blood is just red colored chicken stock
Even though there are floods, they are warm and blood looks like chicken stock.

It was all a dream
Everything that came before is a dream.

Pictures in murder dog magazine
The dream included pictures from a magazine called Murder Dog.

[?] and Master P rocking high-waisted jeans
Someone is wearing high-waisted jeans with Master P.

Grab the [?] off the table and bag it up for fiends
Someone is grabbing something off a table and putting it in a bag for drug addicts.

Lung full of pine tar, kush walks the ocean
The artist is high and walking near the ocean.

Waves like 'hi, hater'
The waves seem to be saying hello to haters.

Buildings looking shoddy low at distance
The buildings in the distance look rundown and poorly made.

Skip like stones
The singer is skipping like a stone, moving quickly and smoothly.

The sharks have biters but the teeth more kitten tongue than needle
The sharks have teeth, but they are not as sharp as needles, more like the tongue of a kitten.

And so the lung walks on
The singer continues on their journey.

With a wax-on wax-off Miyagi focus
The artist is focused like the character Mr. Miyagi from the movie Karate Kid, doing his wax-on wax-off exercise.

Fording of America
People are trying to travel across America, often by crossing rivers.

What's with all this conquering
The singer is questioning why so many people try to conquer others.

Wouldn't it be nice to beach boy for a year or six
The singer wishes they could live like the Beach Boys, at the beach for extended periods of time.

Turn harmony to capitol
The artist wants to turn harmony (peaceful cooperation) into capital (money).

Trade the bricks for sand dollars
The artist wants to exchange bricks (symbols of industry and urbanization) for sand dollars (symbols of the beach and nature).

Dreams are made of comfort
People often dream of being comfortable and free from struggle.

Struggle bursts the nightmares
Struggling often leads to nightmares.

The existence of this voice implies he made it
The fact that the artist's voice exists implies that they have succeeded or survived.

[?] keeping a G in the face of a [?] kumbaya
Someone is keeping calm in the face of stress or conflict.

Ali boom ba yay
This is a chant used to bring people together, made famous by Muhammad Ali.

Got that 'oh my ya'
Something amazing has happened and the singer is excited.

Chemotherapay
This could be a reference to a cancer treatment, suggesting that the artist overcame an illness.

Who said oh my god? How disrespectful
The artist is offended by someone saying 'oh my god,' implying that they are not taking the idea of god seriously enough.

Don't they see the way he Poseidon'd up to the top where it all breaks
Someone has achieved something impressive, like the way Poseidon (Greek god of the sea) rises to the top of the water.

And everyone that rides the wave falls off
Everyone who tries to succeed will eventually fail.

[?] keep the [?] screaming [?]
Someone is making people scream in a dark room.

Dark room familiar, pulling guns on police
The artist is in a dark room, where they might feel comfortable and at home, and are threatening police officers with guns.

Pictures in murder dog magazine
The dream included pictures from a magazine called Murder Dog.

[?] back to back, haulin' [?]
People are carrying or moving something together, likely heavy.

Riding dirty, puffin' that [?]
The artist is driving a car with illegal substances, and smoking something.