Lyrics to
Little Dreamer

This version of Little Dreamer was released by Van Halen in 1978.

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They may talk about you cold when you were
Headed for the skies
But you were young and bold and baby didn’t that
Change with a wink of your eye
Now no one’s talkin’ ’bout those
Crazy days gone by
No one talks about the
Times you cried
(Oooh) Little dreamer
(Oooh) Uh, little dreamer
And then they voted you
Least likely to succeed
I hadda tell them baby, you were armed with
All you’d need
Seems no one’s talkin’ ’bout those
Crazy days gone past
Weren’t they amazed when you were
Really last
(Oooh) You are the little dreamer
(Oooh) You were the little dreamer, yeah, yeah
Yeah they talk about you cold when you were
Headed for the skies
But you were young and bold and baby didn’t that
Change with a wink of your eye
Seems no one’s talkin’ ’bout the
Crazy days gone past
Weren’t they amazed when you were
Really last
(Oooh) You are the little dreamer
(Oooh) Little dreamer, oh yeah, oh
(Oooh) Little dreamer
(Oooh) Little dreamer

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About Lyrics and Little Dreamer by Van Halen

When you decide to study the lyrics to Little Dreamer, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Van Halen. Some of the lyrics to Little Dreamer have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Van Halen and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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

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