What does Dream On mean?

Aerosmith: Dream On Meaning

Album cover for Dream On album cover

Song Released: 1973


Covered By: Glee Cast


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Dream On Lyrics

Every time that I look in the mirror,
All these lines on my face getting clearer.
The past is gone.
It went by like dusk to dawn.
Isn't that the way?
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay.

Yhea'

I know nobody knows,
Where...

  1. anonymous
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    Dec 30th 2009 !⃝

    GOD!!! Idiots it's about him loosing his dog and was too high to get him back. That's what his dream is is to get his dog back from the past. Goldlod is his dogs name duh.

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  2. anonymous
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    Dec 30th 2009 !⃝

    God! it's about him losing his dog and he was too high to find it. You're all fucking idiots. Goldlod is his dog's name. nuff said

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  3. anonymous
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    Aug 27th 2009 !⃝

    Not ALL songs are about drugs, BUT... stereotypically people use a mirror when they do cocaine. In fact they do "lines". When you have lines on a mirror and look into the mirror, you appear to have lines on your face. Then as you snort the lines, the lines go away or "get clearer". If you listen, you can hear him snort after he says this.
    The remainder of the song can definitely support this conspiracy as well. "The past is gone" etc.

  4. anonymous
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    Mar 16th 2009 !⃝

    Maybe true that don't stop me from listening to AEROSMITH

  5. anonymous
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    Feb 11th 2009 !⃝

    Just to be perfectly clear. Aerosmith didn't even THINK about drugs in comparison to sex. also... listen!

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  6. parawizzard
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    Dec 10th 2008 !⃝

    Steven wrote this song when he was seventeen. I think he wrote this while thinking about life his future and everyone expectations of what his should be. Lot of reflecttion, lot of fear of the future and what it holds in store. This can be heard through the haunting music in it.

  7. anonymous
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    Sep 6th 2008 !⃝

    When I listen to the song I think he is trying to say that getting old is part of life, don't get old and not have lived life....to live life till you die.. That's kind of why he says "Sing with me, sing for the years/Sing for the laughter 'n sing for the tears/Sing with me, if it's just for today"

  8. anonymous
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    Aug 16th 2008 !⃝

    "all these line on my face getting clearer SNORT"

    listen up... I hate to say drugs but...

  9. anonymous
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    Aug 5th 2008 !⃝

    The song is about how all his life he has struggled to be someone....when he says "looking in the mirror, the lines on my face getting clearer." means he's ageing and he is still nobody in the world. and keep dreaming because your dreams might come true

  10. anonymous
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    Apr 20th 2008 !⃝

    If everyone would pay attention to the snorting sound that he makes after the first set of vocals, you would understand that...yes, this song has a double meaning.

    One representing the past and the dream of the future.

    ENOUGH SAID!!!!!!!!1

  11. anonymous
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    Feb 7th 2008 !⃝

    All it is saying is that no matter what others say, keep your dreams because your dreams are the only thing that make life amazing.

  12. anonymous
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    Dec 31st 2007 !⃝

    This song does have undertones of the singer's former drug abuse. It's about how he comes to realize that all this time has passed while he was drowning himself in drugs and booze i.e. "the past is gone, it went by like dusk to dawn" he knows that he messed up and blames himself i.e. "everybody's got their dues in life to pay" "dream on" is basically saying that you have to move on with your life, despite what you may have done and make the most of whatever time you have left.

  13. anonymous
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    Dec 21st 2007 !⃝

    Remember music is a form of art, open to your own interpretations.

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  14. anonymous
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    Oct 24th 2007 !⃝

    SING WITH ME SING FOR THE YEARS
    sing for the laughter and sing for the tears
    sing with me if its just for today
    maybe tomorrow the good lord will take you away


    it means to live life
    because one day you might die
    and like live it now...

  15. anonymous
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    Aug 19th 2007 !⃝

    Open your eyes! Every damn rock song is about drugs, people! Except for Clapton's Cocaine, obviously, which talks about fatherhood.

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