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Dreaming Of Me Lyrics
Light switch, man switch
Film was broken only then
All the night, fused tomorrow
Dancing with a distant friend
Filming and dreaming, I picture the scene
Filming and dreaming, dreaming of me
So we left, understanding
Clean cut, so we're sounding fast
Talked of saddness, I talked of war
I laughed and climbed the rising calm
Filming and dreaming, I picture the scene
Filming and dreaming, dreaming of me
Quickly, I remember
Fused and saw a face before
Timing reason, understanding
Like association whore
Filming and dreaming, I picture the scene
Filming and dreaming, dreaming of me
Dreaming of me (Oooh, la la la ...)
Just dreaming of me
It's only me
Just me
Film was broken only then
All the night, fused tomorrow
Dancing with a distant friend
Filming and dreaming, dreaming of me
Clean cut, so we're sounding fast
Talked of saddness, I talked of war
I laughed and climbed the rising calm
Filming and dreaming, dreaming of me
Fused and saw a face before
Timing reason, understanding
Like association whore
Filming and dreaming, dreaming of me
Just dreaming of me
It's only me
Just me
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shut On Dec 04, 2001
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A great piece from their early period. I never really get tired of hearing it.
not sure but here's a guess. he's making a film, realizing that the film, like a dream, reflects himself and his psyche.
this may be a stretch but: "dancing with a distant friend", as dancing is a form of interacting with another person or communicating with an audience, making a film could be a way of dancing with a distant friend, i.e., communicating over a distance rather than dancing physically up close or live.
"association whore" is an odd phrase. My best guess is that refers to free association, the psychoanalytic technique. in this context a "whore" is someone who is obsessed with getting a lot of something, i.e., attention whore. The narrator, as a filmmaker, is a "whore" for "association" in that he's obsessed with learning about himself through filmmaking.
the vagueness of the lyrics goes to the theme of psychoanalysis and free association. vague lyrics can be interpreted in different ways like a Rorschach test and the interpretation tells something about the interpreter rather than about the inkblot.
It is hard to guess but I don't think that 21 years old Vince Clarke could write songs about psychoanalytics :) It is even hard to guess because of different transcriptions of this song. For example "association whore" is sometimes "association hall", "fused" becomes "viewed", "Clean cut so we're sounding fast" may be "Clean cut, some were sounding fast" ... But I guess that song describes dreaming as is ... there are things without order.
It is hard to guess but I don't think that 21 years old Vince Clarke could write songs about psychoanalytics :) It is even hard to guess because of different transcriptions of this song. For example "association whore" is sometimes "association hall", "fused" becomes "viewed", "Clean cut so we're sounding fast" may be "Clean cut, some were sounding fast" ... But I guess that song describes dreaming as is ... there are things without order.
I doubt this song has any meaning, just a number of phrases and words that sound good together. Everything Vince Clarke wrote for Depeche Mode has this kind of lyrics.
great song !
I'm probably dumb, but what exactly is this song about? I've given the lyrics to some of my friends and they can't figure it out either.