Dreams of Gold
Written: 1989
Writers: David Jenneson, Alan Hovden
Status: Recorded but unpublished
Genre and Style: Rock/Pop
Comments: Dave: I wrote the lyrics to Dreams of Gold in 1989 after waking from a dream. In the dream I had been in an outdoor German beer garden shaded by leafy trees. The time was just prior to World War II. The beer garden was dotted with uniformed Nazis enjoying a Sunday off with a stein of beer. Then a young boy, aged about 15 with a shock of intensely blond hair stood, lifted a beer stein with a face on it and began singing. When I awoke I remembered enough of the words to write them down. I later realized what the dream meant. I was the young boy singing to myself, symbolized by the image of my face on the cup when I was thirty years older. The lyrics express the profound self disappointment at having abandoned the idealistic dreams of my youth for the mundane materialism of adulthood.
Comments: Al: Bruce Springsteen could have done this and had a huge hit!
I hold this image here of you
The porcelain is grey
What is your message to us?
What do you have to say?
You’re just a face upon this cup
And dust is all it holds
You’re golden dreams were only dreams of gold
Yes your golden dreams were only dreams of gold
Come on and give me those dreams
I want a piece of those dreams of gold
Come on and give me those dreams
Dreams of gold
To you its not so long ago
You took the world by storm
Then traded in your tattered coat
Why not own something warm?
Why not then take every job
The houses all are sold
You’re golden dreams were only dreams of gold
Yes you’re golden dreams were only dreams of gold
Come on and give me those dreams
I want a piece of those dreams of gold
Come on and give me those dreams
Dreams of gold
Come on and give me those dreams
I want a piece of those dreams of gold
Come on and give me those dreams
Dreams of gold
You take all the tomorrows
You already own today
Forget the past, your promises
Were no good anyway
An empty cup, a rainy street
I watch your world unfold
You’re golden dreams were only dreams of gold
Yes you’re golden dreams were only dreams of gold
I want a piece of those dreams of gold
Come on and give me those dreams
Dreams of gold
Come on and give me those dreams of gold
I want a piece of those dreams of gold
Come on and give me those dreams
Dreams of gold