| Van Morrison – These Dreams Of You Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I would guess that this song is written about The Band's Richard Manuel. The Band and Morrison lived in Woodstock around the same time when it was an arts community and not a hippie town. They grew a close bond especially Richard and Van for their love of similar music (one only needs to listen to their singing to see that). Richard was a horrible alcoholic and I think this song is Van trying to get through to him. The giveaways are "paid your dues in Canada" (Richard is from Ontario) and "Ray Charles" (because if you ever read about Manuel he always tried to be like Ray Charles as a singer and still often compared to him. Im actually pretty surprised nobody else has posted about this, but this track definitely gets lost on this incredible album | |
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