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Leaning On My Dream

Released by Bob Seger in 1970
From the Album: Mongrel |

This version of Leaning On My Dream was released by Bob Seger in 1970.

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I was walkin to the corner drug store
and what should I happen to see
there were picket lines
and the people were a shoutin’
“Down with democracy”
as I strolled on by someone grabbed my arm and said
“buddy where do you stand”?
I said “I stand wherever I choose my friend
and you best let go of my hand”
as I walked away on a sunny day, I swear IA heard him scream
“you know you’re leanin’ on my dream”
“Hey man you’re leanin on my dream”

Got home and turned on the tv set
and sat me down to eat
and a man came on
talkin’ bout the coppers
they were blockin’ off another street
Seems some folks was raisin’ cain
and a riot had broke out

and they flashed the camera on the guy who had stopped me
I watched him runnin’ about
as the cops were draggin him away
I heard on of ’em scream
“you know you’re leanin’ on my dream”
“these kids are leanin’ on my dream”

oh yeah

well I got up and turned off the tv set
and to tell you I was feelin’ mean
an I thought a while
tryin to make some sense
out of everything that I have seen

I was addin’ the score when there’s a knock on the door
was a letter addressed to me
It read “greetings from the president, united states”
I fell down on my knees

The next day I was on the picket line
and Lord you should have heard me scream
“you know you’re leanin’ on my dream”
“hey man you’re leanin’ on my dream”


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When you decide to study the lyrics to Leaning On My Dream, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Bob Seger. Some of the lyrics to Leaning On My Dream have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bob Seger and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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