dreams

Fleetwood Mac had their only number one hit with the maddening heartbeat of this song of loneliness.  Stevie Nicks wrote 'Dreams' at the Record Plant studio during the sessions for 'Rumours': "One day when I wasn't required in the main studio, I took a Fender Rhodes piano and went into another studio that was said to belong to Sly, of Sly & the Family Stone. It was a black-and-red room, with a sunken pit in the middle where there was a piano, and a big black-velvet bed with Victorian drapes. I sat down on the bed with my keyboard in front of me, I found a drum pattern, switched my little cassette player on and wrote 'Dreams' in about ten minutes. Right away I liked the fact that I was doing something with a dance beat, because that made it a little unusual for me."  

 

 

The song spoke to the dissolution of the eight year relationship between Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.  Nicks admits:   "Dreams was uh about Lindsey and I - it was me trying to be philosophic once again, Whether or not I succeeded I don't know. I love the song 'Dreams'. I never get tired of singing 'Dreams'." 

It was the second single released from their album 'Rumours'.  'Dreams' went to thirty-three in Germany, twenty-four in the UK, nineteen in Australia, sixteen in New Zealand, eight in the Netherlands, and number one in Canada and the US.   Nicks says:  "I always put something at the end that says there's hope. You know, 'When the rain washes you clean you'll know.' And that's an old Indian  custom...that if it rains - something like that - when somebody dies, if it rains their spirit is set free."

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Now here you go again, you say
You want your freedom
Well who am I to keep you down
It's only right that you should
Play the way you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound
Of your loneliness
Like a heartbeat drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had
And what you lost, and what you had, and what you lost

Thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
Say women they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know, you'll know

Now here I go again, I see the crystal visions
I keep my visions to myself, it's only me
Who wants to wrap around your dreams and,
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Dreams of loneliness,
Like a heartbeat, drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering, what you had,
And what you lost and what you had and what you lost

Thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
Say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know

Thunder only happens when it's raining
Players only love you when they're playing
Say, women, they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean, you'll know
You'll know, you will know, you'll know