Story Behind The Song
A woman I dated very briefly told me a story about her mother, and I fictionalized it into a song about lonely people in the throes of alcoholism
Song Description
Singer songwriter song about a lonely woman who lives in a fantasy world fueled by alcohol. Spectres of the past drive her to more drink and eventual annihilation.
| Song Length |
4:49 |
Genre |
Folk - Alternative, Pop - General |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Poignant |
Subject |
Loneliness, Age, Aging |
| Similar Artists |
David Gray |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1990 - 1999 |
| |
Lyrics
Sweet Dreams
It isn't that she cares to know how anybody feels
They never even call her on the phone.
She sits in her apartment with her Dago Mountain Red,
Says she's rather face the truth alone.
Sweet dreams and sorrow
Take her anywhere she has to go.
She lives in tomorrow,
Today is just too difficult to know.
All her friends are married now, their babies have all grown,
A few have even died or moved away.
It doesn't really matter if they come or if they go,
They never really knew her anyway.
Sweet dreams and sorrow
Color all the music that she hears.
She'd beg, steal or borrow
To find her way back through the years.
Another year has come and gone, another lonely night,
She picks her rumpled housecoat off the floor,
There's still another bottle waiting, still another dream,
If she can only make it out the door.
Sweet dreams and sorrow
Have taken her as far as she can go.
There'll be no tomorrow...