"Dreams" by The Cranberries holds a special significance for me: it came into my consciousness at a lonely and beautiful time in my life: at the age of sixteen I was in the closet, my mother and I living with her neurotic mother (my grandmother) and her crack-addicted brother (my uncle). As odd as this may sound, "Dreams" has always seemed rather melancholic to me: a song that drifts through environment like the music of innocence, discovered and lost. I danced, cried, jogged, thought, contemplated, tried killing myself - all of that to this song. That's weighty, I suppose, but that's the significance this song holds for me. It's a song of self-discovery, who ever the "you" in the song may be, I have always taken it to mean the most integral "you": the person listening to it. Whenever I turn it on...I can still catch myself dancing to the beautiful and tenebrous music of being sixteen.
@Mark-Alexis wow, I can’t believe I’m gonna comment on something that someone posted here so long ago… I just created an account to be able to post my impression about what means this song to me and before writing my own I read a few, just a couple more or three not counting this…
And I just wanted to say that my sister she’s been a fan of cranberries since we received their sound through the waves back in the 90’s in Spain, and today I heard for first time the cover from Jada Facer & Dave Moffatt, and while paying...
@Mark-Alexis wow, I can’t believe I’m gonna comment on something that someone posted here so long ago… I just created an account to be able to post my impression about what means this song to me and before writing my own I read a few, just a couple more or three not counting this…
And I just wanted to say that my sister she’s been a fan of cranberries since we received their sound through the waves back in the 90’s in Spain, and today I heard for first time the cover from Jada Facer & Dave Moffatt, and while paying attention to the lyrics… I read it the same way as you’ve done before, this song it’s not about falling in love with anyone else than yourself, not her or him, this is about we, you and I, and all of us, learning to accept ourselves and love every bit of it… really deep this way of reading the meaning of this song, I’d say.
Wish you good!
"Dreams" by The Cranberries holds a special significance for me: it came into my consciousness at a lonely and beautiful time in my life: at the age of sixteen I was in the closet, my mother and I living with her neurotic mother (my grandmother) and her crack-addicted brother (my uncle). As odd as this may sound, "Dreams" has always seemed rather melancholic to me: a song that drifts through environment like the music of innocence, discovered and lost. I danced, cried, jogged, thought, contemplated, tried killing myself - all of that to this song. That's weighty, I suppose, but that's the significance this song holds for me. It's a song of self-discovery, who ever the "you" in the song may be, I have always taken it to mean the most integral "you": the person listening to it. Whenever I turn it on...I can still catch myself dancing to the beautiful and tenebrous music of being sixteen.
@Mark-Alexis wow, I can’t believe I’m gonna comment on something that someone posted here so long ago… I just created an account to be able to post my impression about what means this song to me and before writing my own I read a few, just a couple more or three not counting this… And I just wanted to say that my sister she’s been a fan of cranberries since we received their sound through the waves back in the 90’s in Spain, and today I heard for first time the cover from Jada Facer & Dave Moffatt, and while paying...
@Mark-Alexis wow, I can’t believe I’m gonna comment on something that someone posted here so long ago… I just created an account to be able to post my impression about what means this song to me and before writing my own I read a few, just a couple more or three not counting this… And I just wanted to say that my sister she’s been a fan of cranberries since we received their sound through the waves back in the 90’s in Spain, and today I heard for first time the cover from Jada Facer & Dave Moffatt, and while paying attention to the lyrics… I read it the same way as you’ve done before, this song it’s not about falling in love with anyone else than yourself, not her or him, this is about we, you and I, and all of us, learning to accept ourselves and love every bit of it… really deep this way of reading the meaning of this song, I’d say. Wish you good!