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Daydream
I fell asleep beneath the flowers
For a couple of hours
On a beautiful day
Daydream
I dream of you amid the flowers
For a couple of hours
Such a beautiful day
As I spy from behind my giant robot's eyes
I keep 'em happy cause I might fall out if he cries
Scared of heights, so I might pass out if he flies
Keep 'em on autopilot cause I can't drive
Room enough for one, I tell my homies they can't ride
Unless they sittin' on the shoulders but that’s way too high
Let's try, not to step on the children,
The news camera's filmin', this walkin', project building
Now there’s hoes selling hoes, like right around the toes
And the crack heads beg, at about the lower leg
There’s crooked police, that’s stationed at the knees
And they do drive-bys like up and down the thighs
And there's car chase, going on at the waist
Keep a vest on my chest
I'm sitting in my room, as I'm looking out the face
Somethin' to write about
I still got some damage from fightin' the White House
Just a..
Daydream
I fell asleep beneath the flowers
For a couple of hours
On a beautiful day
Daydream
I dream of you amid the flowers
For a couple of hours
Such a beautiful day
Now come on everybody let’s make cocaine cool
We need a few more half naked women up in the pool
And hold this mac-10 that’s all covered in jewels
And can you please put your titties closer to the 22’s
And where’s the champagne, we need champagne
Now look as hard as you can with this blunt in your hand
And know hold up your chain, slow motion through the flames
Now cue the smoke machines and the simulated rain
But not too loud cuz the baby’s sleepin'
I wonder if it knows what the world is keeping
Up both sleeves while he lay there dreamin'
Me and my robot tip-toe round creepin'
I had to turn my back on what got you paid
I couldn’t see half the hood on me like Abu Ghraib
But I like to thank the streets that drove me crazy
And all the televisions out there that raised me
I was..
Daydream
I fell asleep beneath the flowers
For a couple of hours
On a beautiful day
Daydream
I dream of you amid the flowers
For a couple of hours
Such a beautiful day
Daydream
I fell asleep beneath the flowers
For a couple of hours
On a beautiful day
Daydream
I dream of you amid the flowers
For a couple of hours
Such a beautiful day
I fell asleep beneath the flowers
For a couple of hours
On a beautiful day
Daydream
I dream of you amid the flowers
For a couple of hours
Such a beautiful day
As I spy from behind my giant robot's eyes
I keep 'em happy cause I might fall out if he cries
Scared of heights, so I might pass out if he flies
Keep 'em on autopilot cause I can't drive
Room enough for one, I tell my homies they can't ride
Unless they sittin' on the shoulders but that’s way too high
Let's try, not to step on the children,
The news camera's filmin', this walkin', project building
Now there’s hoes selling hoes, like right around the toes
And the crack heads beg, at about the lower leg
There’s crooked police, that’s stationed at the knees
And they do drive-bys like up and down the thighs
And there's car chase, going on at the waist
Keep a vest on my chest
I'm sitting in my room, as I'm looking out the face
Somethin' to write about
I still got some damage from fightin' the White House
Just a..
Daydream
I fell asleep beneath the flowers
For a couple of hours
On a beautiful day
Daydream
I dream of you amid the flowers
For a couple of hours
Such a beautiful day
Now come on everybody let’s make cocaine cool
We need a few more half naked women up in the pool
And hold this mac-10 that’s all covered in jewels
And can you please put your titties closer to the 22’s
And where’s the champagne, we need champagne
Now look as hard as you can with this blunt in your hand
And know hold up your chain, slow motion through the flames
Now cue the smoke machines and the simulated rain
But not too loud cuz the baby’s sleepin'
I wonder if it knows what the world is keeping
Up both sleeves while he lay there dreamin'
Me and my robot tip-toe round creepin'
I had to turn my back on what got you paid
I couldn’t see half the hood on me like Abu Ghraib
But I like to thank the streets that drove me crazy
And all the televisions out there that raised me
I was..
Daydream
I fell asleep beneath the flowers
For a couple of hours
On a beautiful day
Daydream
I dream of you amid the flowers
For a couple of hours
Such a beautiful day
Daydream
I fell asleep beneath the flowers
For a couple of hours
On a beautiful day
Daydream
I dream of you amid the flowers
For a couple of hours
Such a beautiful day
Lyrics submitted by xXlastgoodbyeXx
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next verse as everyone said is about the world now and how thts all rappers do and make bad things look like they are good."And hold this mac-10 that�s all covered in jewels And can you please put your titties closer to the 22�s" is just saying how all these bad things are made so appealing to everyone.the next line "And where�s the champagne, we need champagne Now look as hard as you can with this blunt in your hand" is saying how all these drugs and alcohol are clouding everyones mind and this is why he is alone on the top floor of his robot b/c nobody else is seeing as clearly as he is."Now cue the smoke machines and the simulated rain" is just saying how everything is fake and just used to block our vision so we cant see the truth."not too loud cuz the baby�s sleepin' I wonder if it knows what the world is keeping Up both sleeves while he lay there dreamin' Me and my robot tip-toe round creepin'" in this part he is saying how a sleeping baby is pure and free of all the problems of the world and he wants to be quiet and not wake it up so it has to see what the world is really like."I had to turn my back on what got you paid" so i think in this he is saying how he had to turn his back on all the bad parts of where he lived liked selling drugs , "I couldn�t see half the hood on me like Abu Ghraib" he is saying he couldnt see half the hood on him like abu ghraib b/c like half a hood on u abu ghraib was a big cover up of torture which is evil and he said he couldnt do anything like tht or b apart of it. but the last verse is straight forward even though he was in the hood and saw all kinds of bad things, where he lived made him who he was and he has to thank it for that.
Lupe has a lot of songs in which not many people understand the full meaning of it, Daydreamin' is one of the. I say that because in late 2009, I started to notice that some of my favorite Lupe songs had a deeper meaning to them, the first being "American Terrorist." With this song, Lupe talks about two things, where he grew up or ghetto's in general and how rap/hiphop is potrayed in the videos.
He starts with the chorus, simply stating that he fell asleep and started to daydream or have visions on a beautiful day.
"As I spy from behind my giant robot's eyes"
To understand the bigger picture of this line, one has to know what the robot stands for. The robot is pretty much a project building. The hint comes from the single's album art.
So when he's looking out the eyes, he's watching his neighborhood through the windows of his building. He goes on and says he wants to keep the robot happy from crying because he might fall out. This could mean tyding up his room, or paying for his rent(keep him happy or get kicked out). The scared of heights part seems to be about having a room on the top floor so he sticks to the lower level.
"Room enough for one so I tell my homies they can't ride"
This is saying that the room he has is only big enough for him and so no one else is able to come in, unless they want to stay outside by the door.
The next 3 lines are also a hint to let us know what the Robot actually stands for.
"Let's try not to step on the children
The news cameras filmin
This walkin project buildin"
Stepping on the children is saying harming the innocent by standers and not literally kids. He's saying that since this building is recieving attention (news cameras filming this WALKING PROJECT BUILDING, lets keep what were doing low so that negative attention isn't drawn. This then leads to the rest of the verse.
He starts to describe what he is seeing in his neighbourhood. From prostitution, crack heads, crooked cops, and violence (drive-bys). He is seeing all this from the face of the robot, through the eyes or the windows.
That very last line, I had a hard time interpreting it, but thanks to Wikipedia, I was able to understand it. Apparently, Lupe had a different idea for the songs video. A quick rundown of it is that he was going to have an actual robot go and fight other robots(hoods fighting against each other) and the one that Lupe was in, would come to a realization that they shouldn't be fighting amongst each other. So that robot would go for the white house. During that battle, the robot would get injured and have to retreat, thus "I still got some damage from fighting the white house"
The second verse then changes topics, and changes the meaning of the chorus. The is this "Daydream" or un-real world created in rap videos that seems to be popular. When I first heard this song back in 2006, I thought that first line, "Come on everybody lets make cocaine cool" meant that he wanted everybody to join him and become as cool as cocaine is. But it is quite the opposite.
To help me interpret this verse, I pictured that I was on the set of a rap video and Lupe was the director and he was talking to me.
"Come one, let take cocaine and make it cool. Now get some of those sexy models and put them by the pool. Next grab these guns(MAC-10) that are covered in jewels." He then turns to a model and tells her to put her titties closer to the big shinny rims. He turns back to me and asks, "where's the champagne? Don't you know we need the champagne?!" When the champagne is brought, he tells me to look 'hard' and hold a blunt, and at the same time hold up my shinny chain and walk through the flames, in the same style as you would see in a movie. To add some final touches, we need some fake rain and a smoke machine to add to the whole scene.
When he speaks of the sleeping baby, he is referencing to someone who is unaware of what's going on. He doesn't want it to be done too loud because the sleeping baby might wake up and realize whats going on. He then brings the robot back into the mix and saying that the project building can be involved in the whole thing.
"I had to turn my back on what got you paid"
With this line, Lupe is personally speaking of himself. He turned his back on all the drug dealing etc, (which is what got you paid). But he goes on to that the streets and the TVs that raised him because they are what educated him and made him who he is.
thanks for reading it. its an amzing song as it is but once you know what it means its even better. F&L 2
The robot represents hip hop as an industry with Lupe in it,
"As I spy from behind my giant robot's eyes
I keep 'em happy cause I might fall out if he cries"
he keeps hip hop, or the heads of the labels happy or else he will fall out of the music industy
"Room enough for one, I tell my homies they can't ride
Unless they sittin' on the shoulders but that�s way too high"
This is saying you cant bring your friends into the music industry unless their bigger than you but he doesn't want that to happen
"Let's try, not to step on the children,"
This is saying lets not try to negativity effect the children
"The news camera's filmin', this walkin', project building
Now there�s hoes selling hoes, like right around the toes
And the crack heads beg, at about the lower leg
There�s crooked police, that�s stationed at the knees
And they do drive-bys like up and down the thighs
And there's car chase, going on at the waist"
This i think hes trying to say hip hop represents the projects and then goes on to describe some things that go on there
"I'm sitting in my room, as I'm looking out the face
Somethin' to write about"
I think this is talking about him and a lot of rappers using the hood as something to rap about
"I still got some damage from fightin' the White House
Just a.."
I think this is about how hip hop has some disagreements or "fights" with the government
So, i think your analogy of the grave is accurate, but i believe he's saying he was already dead... or brainwashed by this world. he didn't have his own thoughts. the TV's chose his thoughts/aka his life/ for him. He was essentially dead. like so many of us. until we learn to break free.
and as a matter of fact he actually says, i like to thank the streets that drove me crazy and all the televisions that raised me, I WAS asleep beneath the flowers (for a couple of hours)
"Scared of heights, so I might pass out if he flies
Keep 'em on autopilot cause I can't drive
Room enough for one, I tell my homies they can't ride
Unless they sittin' on the shoulders but that�s way too high
Let's try, not to step on the children,
The news camera's filmin', this walkin', project building"
The first line, is his rejection of fame. He doesn't want the fame, he just wants to send out his message. I think the second line just reaffirms that. The third line shows how the loss of friends comes with fame. The 5th line could mean "don't spit gangster lyrics that the kids are going to learn from and copy and ruin their lives", like stepping on them. And news cameras filming, obviously means fame.
`Look as cool as you can with this blunt in your hand` among others lyrics is just mimicking what most people view rap as. I believe he is trying to bring everyone down to reality through his sarcasm with lyrics such as the one previously mentioned. Through doing this is is belittling all the fake hype brought about through people listening to music and taking it as is, without forming their on conclusions of the music and just ignorantly accepting women, guns, alcohol, drugs, etc.
"As I spy from behind my giant robot's eyes
I keep 'em happy cause I might fall out if he cries."
Here, Lupe may be addressing the need to keep the industry elite--the record companies, CEOs, anyone one would consider a member of the music industry's bourgeoise--happy by adhering to what they see, what they conceive as "hip-hop," hence his placement behind the robots eyes. If he disappoints, if they cry, he may "fall out." That is, he may be cast out of the sights and interests of the industry. This machine ignores the realities of the crackheads that beg at about the lower legs, the crooked police stationed at the knees, drive-bys at the thighs, car chases on the waist and only employs them as tools with which they craft, build, a false, industrial image of the projects. Lupe writing from inside this machine as it continues to threaten the children of the projects--anyone born, raised, or aware of the "true" projects--demonstrates that he works from inside and manipulates the hodgepodge hip-hop machine that is the music industry.
Perhaps not. This just seemed like a relevant perusal of the lyrics.
Lupe is talking about how the record labels want different people to record different songs as they seem fit. Sara Bareilles wrote "Love Song" because she did not want Epic to shape her like molding clay.
"As I spy from behind my giant robot's eyes
I keep 'em happy cause I might fall out if he cries"
Meaning: Robot being the label, the mundane artist keeps the label "robot" happy because they won't support him anymore if he does not produce what they want. That sometimes gets the artist in trouble because it is not the true artists talent.
The rest of this verse talks about corruption in the music industry.
"Keep 'em on autopilot cause I can't drive" Means: the artist has become such a product of the label that he can no longer produce any real talent and is now producing solely what the label wants. (Think Ke$ha, she was singing country songs in Tennessee and now is a "slutty" pop singer. You think she wanted that, or to get rich? Also think America's Suitehearts from FOB and the movie The Rocker).
The rest of the verse, as I was saying is about how the industry is a circus.
The second verse is criticizing rap in general. It is set on a music video set, he criticizes different rappers and genres for making the items mentioned "cool." Lupe goes on saying he is tip-toeing with his robot, meaning the recording industry backs it because it sells and makes money. The baby could be just a human baby, and how the person in the song,
"I had to turn my back on what got you paid
I couldn�t see half the hood on me like Abu Ghraib"
get so blinded by the industries push to make him what he is not that he quits.
The last line,
"But I like to thank the streets that drove me crazy
And all the televisions out there that raised me,"
refers back to the man in the industry because he finally has something real to write about. He can now give his own voice to the world because some of the TV educated him (literally or metaphorically?)
This song may be about Lupe himself or it may be about other rappers/hip-hop artists in general that he may or may not know.
Also could mean that the artist is making money so he or she doesn't care what they record, as long as the money keeps coming in.
"Now there�s hoes selling hoes, like right around the toes
And the crack heads beg, at about the lower leg
There�s crooked police, that�s stationed at the knees
And they do drive-bys like up and down the thighs
And there's car chase, going on at the waist"
This is obviously a depiction of different things that you see happening more often then not in the area the giant robot is a metaphor for.
The second part is Lupe mocking mainstream rappers and their videos, but showing how some turn their back on where they came from while others never really leave them mentally. Like the phrase "You can take the boy out of the hood but you can't take the homeboy out of the hood".