Lyrics to
Dream Lover

This version of Dream Lover was released by The Marshall Tucker Band in 1978.

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Was a time when friends of mine said
Love was just a game
Find a girl and give her a whirl, then
Move on, all the same

But I was never happy
Always searching for this one
The dream to be my lover
And the dream she’d give me a son

I’ve searched this whole world over
‘Bout a hundred times or more
Always looking for a girl I could love
Forever more

Dream lady, sexy Sadie, oh, I’ve dreamed
All my life of you
Dream lover, there’s no other, oh girl
You could make all my dreams come true

Dream lover, oh, where are you?
If I could find you I’d love you true
Dream lover you’re in my mind
Oh, lord, why does love have to be so unkind?

But I found a girl with loving
One to share my hopes and dreams
A friend to stand beside me
And the lover of my dreams

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About Lyrics and Dream Lover by The Marshall Tucker Band

When you decide to study the lyrics to Dream Lover, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by The Marshall Tucker Band. Some of the lyrics to Dream Lover have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Marshall Tucker Band and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Dream Lover if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Dream Lover" means the words set to the music of Dream Lover, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Marshall Tucker Band. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Dream Lover and the lyrics to Dream Lover are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Marshall Tucker Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dream Lover, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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