Dream Away
Dream Away[1] is a song by the_midnight. It is the fifth track from their album monsters.
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Track info
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The song was written by band members tim_mcewan and tyler_lyle and produced by McEwan. It has a running time of three minutes and thirty-nine seconds and is in the key of [[WP>B-flat major|B-flat major]].
McEwan has said that Dream Away is a "homage to the 90s wave of world influenced electronic music like [[WP>Deep Forest|Deep Forest]] and [[WP>Enigma (German band)|Engima]]."[2][3] During an interview with Magnetic Magazine, the band further elaborated on the song:[4] <blockquote>
Tim: This was a sketch I had called “Far, Far Away.” I just knew I wanted to evoke a journey to a distant land. A lot of 90s world music came to mind. The big inspirations for this were artists like Deep Forest and Enigma and those Pure Moods compilation CDs from the 90s.
Tyler: To waste your life asking the wrong questions, building the wrong reality is one of the saddest heartbreaks. I wrote this song initially as part of a podcast series I did between ‘16-18 while reading a lot of Emile Durkheim. Maybe the answer is to let go of the fantasy so that you can start living in the more disappointing, but real world. Maybe not? </blockquote>
Lyrics
I was busy dreaming
Building us a world Day dreaming up a good life
That wouldn’t hurt and wouldn’t spoil
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The sun never set there
The water, clean and pure In the beauty there was purpose
So certain, safe and sure
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I could’ve lived this lie forever
But from far far away I thought I heard you calling
You said I could not stay
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And I woke up in a fever
My calculations were wrong These pillars could not hold us
And the angels were gone
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When hope makes you bleed
When life gets you down There’s all the love you need
Underground
>
To make a way for the dark heart
To feel the love I’ve found There’s all the love you need
Underground
>
We dream away…
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A picture of a sunset
Above a turquoise tide The beauty of a just world
And the convenience of a lie
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I tore down that picture
There is no other perfect life But in the dirt under my fingers
Maybe something will survive
>
When hope makes you bleed
When life gets you down There’s all the love you need
Underground
>
To make a way for the dark heart
To feel the love I’ve found There’s all the love you need
Underground
>
We dream away…
Lyrics source[5]
- ↑ https://themidnight.bandcamp.com/track/dream-away
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/electronicmusic/comments/horqzi/we_are_the_midnight_our_new_album_monsters_is_out/fxjrlnp/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
- ↑ https://twitter.com/TheMidnightLA/status/1287868174562504704
- ↑ https://www.magneticmag.com/2020/07/the-directors-cut-the-midnight-monsters/
- ↑ https://themidnight.bandcamp.com/track/dream-away