Lyrics to
Dreamland

This version of Dreamland was released by Gordon Lightfoot in 1978.

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You come to me in times of need
When you can’t find anyone
You seem to be much better off now
There’s a rainbow number one
We could see life through the gutter then
Till it caused my heart to break
There was too much toil in dreamland
And too much love to take

Sometimes I remember when
We were all dressed up in style
I don’t recall the gist of it all
But you drove the young men wild
You could wrap me around your finger
Till it caused my heart to break
There was too much toil in dreamland
And too much love to take
So if you need me near you
You can do it if you choose
There was too much toil in dreamland
And too much love to lose

You make me do what you want me to do
Then you run the rules on me
You seem to be the wiser now
Could it be you’ve been deceived
Anytime you felt like tryin’
You would cause my heart to break
There was too much toil in dreamland
And too much love mistake

So if you need me near you now
You can do it if you choose
There was too much toil in dreamland
And too much love to lose

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Gordon Lightfoot has released many songs over the years besides Dreamland. Gordon Lightfoot released songs from 1966 to 2004 spanning across albums like Lightfoot!, The Way I Feel, Back Here On Earth, Did She Mention My Name, Sunday Concert, Sit Down Young Stranger / If You Could Read My Mind, Summer Side Of Life, Don Quixote, Old Dan's Records, Sundown, Cold On The Shoulder, Summertime Dream, Endless Wire, Dream Street Rose, Shadows, Salute, East Of Midnight, Waiting For You, A Painter Passing Through, and Harmony. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Gordon Lightfoot.

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About Lyrics and Dreamland by Gordon Lightfoot

The lyrics to Dreamland are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Gordon Lightfoot used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Dreamland have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Gordon Lightfoot and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Dreamland by Gordon Lightfoot. 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 Dreamland" means the words set to the music of Dreamland, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Gordon Lightfoot. 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 Dreamland and the lyrics to Dreamland are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Gordon Lightfoot who came here looking just for the lyrics to Dreamland, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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