Dream Away

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Dream Away

Dream Away[1] is a song by The Midnight. It is the fifth track from their album monsters.



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 B-flat major.

McEwan has said that Dream Away is a "homage to the 90s wave of world influenced electronic music like Deep Forest and 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

>

The sun never set there

The water, clean and pure In the beauty there was purpose

So certain, safe and sure

>

I could’ve lived this lie forever

But from far far away I thought I heard you calling

You said I could not stay

>

And I woke up in a fever

My calculations were wrong These pillars could not hold us

And the angels were gone

>

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…

>

A picture of a sunset

Above a turquoise tide The beauty of a just world

And the convenience of a lie

>

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]