Lyrics to
Dreamer

This version of Dreamer was released by Uriah Heep in 1973.

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I’ve got a dollar deal hidden down in my shoe
So listen friends, I’ll tell you what I’m gonna do
I’m gonna run up the road of mystery
Hangin’ by a thread to a fantasy
A background black showing my face
Buried in the image of an empty space

I’m back on my feet
Getting no sleep
Makin’ it all mine
Give me a chance
To follow the bands
Waitin’ for the sunshine

Husslin’ my will in a bar downtown
If it don’t work out
I’ll keep movin’ around and around and around and around

Till I’m back on my feet
Getting no sleep
Makin’ it all mine
Give me a chance
To follow the bands
Waitin’ for a sun shine

Dreamer Dreamer hangin’ around
Dreamer Dreamer trying to hitch a ride
Dreamer Dreamer hangin’ around
Dreamer Dreamer when I turn my back you’re by my side ooh

Well I fought my way through the backstage door
Staring at my goal till my eyes get sore
And working my way through the little I say
Caring no less just the light of the day
A background black showing my face
Buried in the image of an empty space

I’m back on my feet
Getting no sleep
Makin’ it all mine
Give me a chance
To follow the bands
Waitin’ for the sunshine yeah

Just a Dreamer Dreamer hangin’ a round
Dreamer Dreamer trying to hitch a ride
Dreamer Dreamer hangin’ around
Dreamer Dreamer when I turn my back you’re by my side

Dreamer Dreamer hangin’ around
Dreamer Dreamer trying to hitch a ride
Dreamer Dreamer hangin’ a round
Dreamer Dreamer Dreamer Dreamer

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Uriah Heep has released many songs over the years besides Dreamer. Uriah Heep released songs from 1970 to 1998 spanning across albums like Very 'eavy... Very 'umble, Salisbury, Look At Yourself, Demons And Wizards, The Magician's Birthday, Sweet Freedom, Wonderworld, Return To Fantasy, High And Mighty, Firefly, Innocent Victim, Fallen Angel, Conquest, Abominog, Head First, Equator, Raging Silence, Different World, Sea Of Light, and Sonic Origami. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Uriah Heep.

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About Lyrics and Dreamer by Uriah Heep

When you decide to study the lyrics to Dreamer, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Uriah Heep. Some of the lyrics to Dreamer have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Uriah Heep and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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