Steve Perry wrote this song after having a dream about his mother sometime after her death. In the dream, she was working in a gift shop, happy and smiling at him. Maybe the dream was her gift to her son and the world - the inspiration for this beautiful song. I love the inflections of his voice on the line, "It's so unreal with you gone." It shows such emotion. I think the line, "Hold on just for a while" is the feeling you get when you start waking up from a dream about a loved one you wish you could be with again; you realize you were dreaming but you just want to go back to sleep and be with them a little longer. Beautiful!
Steve Perry wrote this song after having a dream about his mother sometime after her death. In the dream, she was working in a gift shop, happy and smiling at him. Maybe the dream was her gift to her son and the world - the inspiration for this beautiful song. I love the inflections of his voice on the line, "It's so unreal with you gone." It shows such emotion. I think the line, "Hold on just for a while" is the feeling you get when you start waking up from a dream about a loved one you wish you could be with again; you realize you were dreaming but you just want to go back to sleep and be with them a little longer. Beautiful!