Lyrics to
Dream Of The Archer

This version of Dream Of The Archer was released by Heart in 1977.

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Wayfaring warrior Soul – still wild
The archer stands
Arrow measured to the goal – sing of
Strong and living man
In his mind there is a vision wand’ring
Through the forest town
Telling of riches only given if through
The woods the way is found

Crying “ah! Beautiful dancers …wake up
From your sleep!
Ahhh gentle romancers…drink of Love
So sweet!”

Treasure glowing in their eyes – Forest
Deepens dark their dream
“Keep to the pathway” he advise “the woods
Are more than they might seem”
“Heed you now the apparition bending never
Ending sounds
Call you into her mystery – are your eyes
Not sparkling now?”

Sighing “ahh! Take you no warning –
Make no foolish fight
Ahh, think not of morning – lie here
Through the Night!”

“Beauty take us!” they call “In my arms!”
They hear her say
Silken web falls – mist illusion rips away
“Helpless! Helpless!” now they scream
Helpless on the path he stands
And awakens from his dream singing string
Beneath his hand

Gentle archer ages old – release the aim
Free the goal
Roll your arrow to my Soul – release the aim
Free the goal

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Dream Of The Archer, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Heart. Some of the lyrics to Dream Of The Archer have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Heart and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Dream Of The Archer 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 Of The Archer" means the words set to the music of Dream Of The Archer, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Heart. 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 Of The Archer and the lyrics to Dream Of The Archer are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Heart who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dream Of The Archer, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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