This song is about never giving up. You can achieve your dreams, but you MUST work for them, and build upon your failures and hardships. Victory is not won without an accumulation of failures. "Save all the tears you've cried..." and "We belong in a world that must be strong..." "THAT's what dreams are made of." Dreams are made of strength and tears. Of having the strength to keep pushing, despite all the setbacks and failures (and "broken dreams" that we're standing on - STAND on them, don't fall on them). You must accumulate failures and hardship(broken dreams and tears), and have the strength to keep going, if you want to achieve your dreams. That and love (in the broadest sense - of each other, and of life itself) is made of dreams, both realized and achieved.
Yes, this is Van Halen's best song. It's a positive, inspirational message, it rocks and pumps you up, and the vocals are clear and concise. The latter is why I prefer Hagar to Roth. There's no vocal buffoonery necessary to keep the song going.
This song is about never giving up. You can achieve your dreams, but you MUST work for them, and build upon your failures and hardships. Victory is not won without an accumulation of failures. "Save all the tears you've cried..." and "We belong in a world that must be strong..." "THAT's what dreams are made of." Dreams are made of strength and tears. Of having the strength to keep pushing, despite all the setbacks and failures (and "broken dreams" that we're standing on - STAND on them, don't fall on them). You must accumulate failures and hardship(broken dreams and tears), and have the strength to keep going, if you want to achieve your dreams. That and love (in the broadest sense - of each other, and of life itself) is made of dreams, both realized and achieved.
Yes, this is Van Halen's best song. It's a positive, inspirational message, it rocks and pumps you up, and the vocals are clear and concise. The latter is why I prefer Hagar to Roth. There's no vocal buffoonery necessary to keep the song going.