CROWDED HOUSE - DON'T DREAM IT'S OVER LIVE

DON'T DREAM IT'S OVER LIVE

CROWDED HOUSE

SONGWRITER: NEIL FINN

COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA

ALBUM: CROWDED HOUSE

LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1986

 

       "Don't Dream It's Over" is a song by Australian rock band Crowded House, recorded for their 1986 self-titled debut studio album. The song was composed and written by New Zealand frontman Neil Finn, and released in October 1986 as the fourth single from the album.

      Described by AllMusic as a "majestic ballad", "Don't Dream It's Over" became the band's biggest international hit, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in April 1987. "Don't Dream It's Over" was also a great success in Finn's native country of New Zealand, where it peaked at Number 1. It also topped the charts in Canada, while in Australia it peaked at Nº 8. In Continental Europe, it reached Nº 6 in Norway, Nº 7 in the Netherlands, and Nº 13 in Germany. At the 1986 Countdown Australian Music Awards the song was nominated for three awards, winning Best Video.

         "Don't Dream It's Over" is written and composed in the key of E-flat major and is set in time signature of common time with a tempo of 82 beats per minute.

"Don't Dream It's Over" was prominently featured in the 1994 miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's novel The Stand. The song has also been recorded by other artists, including Paul Young, Sixpence None the Richer, and New Zealand artist Stan Walker.

          In May 2001, the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) ranked "Don't Dream It's Over" second on its list of the Top 100 New Zealand songs of all time and seventh on its list of the Top 100 Australian songs of all time. In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "Don't Dream Its Over" was ranked number 65.

There is freedom within, there is freedom withoutTry to catch the deluge in a paper cupThere's a battle ahead, many battles are lost

But you'll never see the end of the road

While you're travelling with me

 

Hey now, hey now

Don't dream it's over

Hey now, hey now

When the world comes in

They come, they come

To build a wall between us

We know they won't win

 

Now I'm towing my car, there's a hole in the roof

My possessions are causing me suspicions but there's no proof

In the paper today tales of war and of waste

But you turn right over to the TV Page

 

Hey now, hey now

Don't dream it's over

Hey now, hey now

When the world comes in

They come, they come

To build a wall between us

We know they won't win

 

Now I'm walking again to the beat of a drum

And I'm counting the steps to the door of your heart

Only the shadows ahead barely clearing the roof

Get to know the feeling of liberation and relief

 

Hey now, hey now

Don't dream it's over

Hey now, hey now

When the world comes in

They come, they come

To build a wall between us

We know they won't win

 

Don't let them win

Hey now, hey now

Hey now, hey now

Don't let them win

Hey now, hey now

Hey now, hey now.