Little Dreamer

this song sums up peoples consistancy with having no faith in each other...everyone is goin somewhere, how full u live your life getting there, being there, and leaving there, that's all that matters.

This song doesn't get much recognition but it is Van Halen's one of best... It is about when you are young, you dare to dream ...without constraints

Yeah, I agree. This song is, in my opinion, their fifth best song. It is amazing.

This song is without a doubt, the most underrated Van Halen song, if it's not it is one of the most underrated.

my favorite song by van halen by far...reminds me of when i was a child and had all these aspirations to do this and that and the time and friends all gone by. definitely going somewhere, and its cool cause the ride there is pretty interesting. hooray for being 20 years old i guess.

This song has passed the test of time better than most. If someone is playing Van Halen at a party, and this song comes on, everyone wants it cranked.

this is awesome, I never knew that people thought as high of this song as I did. thats awesome. I definitely agree, its very under-rated. I love Little Dreamer.

This is the most special Van Halen song to me. This song will always be in my heart, and I'm gonna get tattooed "Little Dreamer"

This song means A LOT to me because it reminds me of my dreams, that I'm headed for the skies, I'm young and bold, what I want to achieve, and it is something that I kinda forget very often. I really feel I am a little dreamer, and I don't care if they really didn't take much time writing it back in the 70's. It really means a lot to me this song. I must believe in myself whether other do or not. It is just something I cannot explain with words.

I think this is one of Van Halen's best songs. Sometimes I rank it #1, depending on my mood. It has sharp edges, and almost eerie backgrounds.

I have a different opinion on the actual lyrics. I've listened to this song many times with headphones, and this is what I hear every time:

"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

A little dreamer A little dreamer

And then they went and they voted you Least likely to succeed I had to tell them baby you were armed with All you'd need Seems no one's talking 'bout those crazy days gone past Weren't they amazed when you were feared at last."

The differences are in the first line and the last line, and these are key.

In the first line, I hear "They may talk about you cold", meaning they talk badly about you, put you down.

In the last line, I hear "Weren't they amazed when you were feared at last", posed as a statement, not a question. Meaning, in the end they feared you, they respected you.

This makes more sense to me when put in the context of the rest of the lyrics.

In the beginning, the little dreamer was not respected, was "voted least likely to succeed". They talked about her cold, and those were "the times you cried". But the singer realizes that she was "headed for the skies", i.e. had a lot of potential. She was "young and bold" and "armed with all you'd need".

Eventually, that "changed with a wink of your eye" and "now no one's talkin' 'bout those crazy days gone past" because now she's "feared at last".

It is essentially the story of a young woman who was criticized and put down, and eventually made a success of herself, silencing the critics in the end.