Lyrics to
Dreamin’ Home

Released by Chicago in 1971
From the Album: Chicago Iii |

This version of Dreamin’ Home was released by Chicago in 1971.

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Dream, dream, dream
Dreams in the night
Take me back to you
The day comes
With it’s friend
The Morning blues again


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Chicago has released many songs over the years besides Dreamin’ Home. Chicago released songs from 1969 to 2006 spanning across albums like The Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago (Chicago II), Chicago III, Chicago V, Chicago VI, Chicago VII, Chicago VIII, Chicago X, Chicago XI, Hot Streets, Chicago 13, Chicago XIV, Chicago 16, Chicago 17, Chicago 18, Chicago 19, Twenty 1, Night & Day: Big Band, Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album, and Chicago XXX. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Chicago.

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About Lyrics and Dreamin’ Home by Chicago

The lyrics for Dreamin’ Home are defined as the words making up the song released by Chicago in 1971. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Dreamin’ Home have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Chicago and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Dreamin’ Home by Chicago if you think through it. 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 Dreamin’ Home" means the words set to the music of Dreamin’ Home, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Chicago. 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 Dreamin’ Home and the lyrics to Dreamin’ Home are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Chicago who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dreamin’ Home, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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