"Sweet Dreams"

Dave Stewart & Annie Lennox singing
"Sweet Dreams Are Made For This" (1983)

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

"Sweet Dreams" Album
by Dave Stewart (1983)

Dave Stewart & Annie Lennox singing
"Sweet Dreams Are Made For This" (1983)

Dave Stewart
of Eurythmics

Preface: For Song #54, I've selected Dave Stewart & Annie Lennox singing "Sweet Dreams Are Made For This" (1983). This is a song by the British new wave music duo Eurythmics. It was released as fourth & final single from their second album, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), in January 1983. It was their breakthrough hit, establishing the duo worldwide.
It reached number two on the UK Singles Chart in March 1983, and number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 six months later; it was their first single released in the US. Appearing with orange cropped hair and wearing a man's business suit in the music video, the BBC stated Annie Lennox's "powerful androgynous look" was the music video that "broke the mould for female pop stars". Rolling Stone called the song "a synth-pop masterpiece that made Lennox & Dave Stewart MTV superstars". On Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" issue in 2003, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" was ranked number 356. On the radio Coast-to-Coast-AM, George Noory played this music whenever he had a program
on reincarnation (roaming the "seven seas" = past lives). Lyrics.

[Intro/Chorus]
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something

[Verse 1]
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

[Chorus]
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something

[Bridge]
(Hold your head up, keep your head up) movin' on
(Hold your head up) movin' on,
(keep your head up) movin' on
(Hold your head up) movin' on,
(keep your head up) movin' on
(Hold your head up) movin' on,
(keep your head up)

[Instrumental Break]
[Keyboard Solo]

[Verse 2] Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

[Chorus]
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something

[Outro/Chorus]
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something
Sweet dreams are made of this

© Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com
September 16, 2023