I've been fixated on the song, Dreaming My Dreams, and today I found out about an interactive exhibit that the Country Music Hall of Fame has developed, called "Dreaming My Dreams". That's sort of eerie.
Nevertheless, this is awesome! I haven't explored the full range of this exhibit yet, but this is right up my alley! You can click on a 45-RPM record and hear it. Plus, there's tons of neat country-obsessive stuff to explore!
Big kudos to whoever thought this up! You know me; I'm an eighties country-kind-of gal, and this exhibit lets me indulge in all that eighties country stuff: George Strait, Dwight Yoakam, Alan Jackson, the Judds....ahhh....heaven.
But wait! There's more! The exhibit goes back a long ways; back to Dolly and Johnny Paycheck and all those people; and back further still.. And it goes forward (for you forward-leaning fans); forward to now; today.
One can get lost in this. It's a good way to get lost.
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I am rarely floored by anything anymore. This thing floored me.
Ever obsess over a song?
I do it ~ sometimes.
I'm miles removed from actually singing a song...any song; but lately I've had the urge to sing a certain one. And that song is, Dreaming My Dreams.
Full disclosure ~ I like three-quarter-time songs. I've said it before, but it's worth repeating ~ three quarter time is like a heartbeat. That's why we're drawn to it.
This is such a simple song. It only has three chords. I've written three-chord songs, but they never came out like this. That's what separates the talented wheat from the untalented chaff. That's why I don't even try to write songs anymore.
Allen Reynolds, according to Wikipedia, is 75 years old. If I was seventy-five years old, and I knew that I wrote a song this good, I would consider my journey complete..
Multitudes of artists have recorded this song. My favorite is Mark Chesnutt, but obviously, Waylon made a hit of it. Martina McBride, though, did it, too. Rodney and Emmylou did it. Patty Loveless did it. Jamey Johnson did it.
The reason they all did it was, a singer can't resist pouring out their heartbreak. If you're not pouring out heartbreak, why even bother singing?
Intellectually, I study the lyrics and I think, my, how simple. You know, though, a song is not meant to be heard intellectually. A song is meant to stab you in your heart. There's no explaining it.
I hope that I won't be this wrong anymore
Maybe I've learned this time
I hope that I find what I'm reaching for
The way that it is in my mind
Someday I'll get over you
I'll live to see it all through
But I'll always miss
Dreaming my dreams with you
But I won't let it change me
Not if I can.
I'd rather believe in love
And give it away as much as I can
To those that I'm fondest of
Someday I'll get over you.
I'll live to see it all through.
But I'll always miss,
Dreaming my dreams with you
Someday I'll get over you.
I'll live to see it all through.
But I'll always miss,
Dreaming my dreams with you
