Story Behind The Song
From an inspirational period of many strongly structured hits with vivid imagery and powerful, encouraging themes. Pop/standards, classics, Broadway, children's, new age healing a first love, and some country to ease into the market back in the day... all highly awarded in international song festivals, as is Lay Me Down with a long list of credits. Also, 10-page spec script and all music from Black & Bluzae as noted @ Broadjam profile.
Most of my lyric submissions to this op have music but I am open to finally getting myself in the market somehow, and using the tunes with new lyrics en future.
If you are looking for inspiration, I have glorious material in all states of completion, a lifetime of music, lyric, and state-of-the-art StarKid projects to develop and present live or via web in a new type of presentation.
Otherwise, I'm ideally given inspiring musical tracks, the music simply delivering it's lyrics to me in the overtones. And, I'm able to create poetic, colorful, well-crafted lyrics, as well. This was a difficult call not knowing exactly what is needed. A theme, scene, characters... would have been helpful to write brand new lyrics. Suffice these submissions as examples and/or lyric submissions if anyone even looks at this... Hello, hello?
Song Description
Mom's Hit CD, When Songs Were Songs: www.broadjam.com/ruthgregor
in case you have a few minutes...
not sure if I uploaded the final mix of these...
top ten at radioairplay.com with a continually growing global fan base!
All tracks via Gregor Rice on a home Mac/Logic based studio setup, in process.
| Song Length |
1:15 |
Genre |
Pop - Standards, Pop - Standards |
| Mood |
Exultant, In High Spirits |
Era |
2000 and later |
Lyrics
You Know You've Got to Have a Dream ~ Lyrics: Gregor Rice aka Joules LaHae @ Broadjam © 1983-2014
~ a powerful Streisand-Bocelli-Groban-type song ~
[uploaded Mom's hit song re: couldn't figure out how to submit lyrics only again!]
A:
You Know You've Got to Have a Dream
If you want to have a dream come true
It's not as wild as it may seem
When heaven's distant drummer's calling you
You'll find your wish unfolding in the Light
When your dream takes flight
[music inclines/heightens/opens to rpt]
A:
You Know You've Got to Have a Dream
If you want to have a dream come true
It's not as wild as it may seem
When heaven's distant drummer's calling you
Hold on to precious visions in your sight
When you have a dream
Dreams come true
[music resolves to B]
B:
Where would we be
Without the dreamers of the world
And the magic men... seeing us through
[gender here may be an issue - guiding works]
Where would we be
Without the street - light - vi - sion - ar - ies.... [BG: ahhhh 1 meas. inst. 7s, 9s,13s]
Lighting our view... [BG: ooo 6 meas. inst. ush new-agey type chords]
A:
You Know You've Got to Have a Dream
If you want to have a dream come true
It's not as wild as it may seem
When heaven's distant drummer's calling you
Stand strong, empow'r your dream to reach its height
When you share a dream
Dreams come true
B: Optional B and A finale en repeat or new [a long dreamy new agey inst. also works between this finale]
Where would we be
Without the dreamers of the world
And the magic men... seeing us through
Where would we be
Without the street - light vi - sion - ar - ies... [BG: ahhhh 1 or more meas on 2nd round]
Lighting our view... [BG: ooo 8 meas or more opt - more lush floaty chords into climax]
A:
You Know You've Got to Have a Dream
If you want to have a dream come true
It's not as wild as it may seem
When heaven's distant drummer's calling you
A world transforming dream could soon ignite
When you share your dream
Dreams come true