What does Don't Dream It's Over mean?

Crowded House: Don't Dream It's Over Meaning

Album cover for Don't Dream It's Over album cover

Song Released: 1986


Covered By: Glee Cast


Don't Dream It's Over Lyrics

There is freedom within, there is freedom without
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
There’s a battle ahead, many battles are lost
But you’ll never see the end of the road
While you’re travelling with me

Hey now, hey now
Don’t dream...

  1. anonymous
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    Jul 25th 2014 !⃝

    The song was used in Stephen Kings mini series , The Stand . Every time I hear this song , something in it sounds dismal ! I know it's not , but the chord progression seems sad and lonely ! I do however like the song !

  2. anonymous
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    Apr 7th 2012 !⃝

    Telling from the name of the song, its about "hope."

  3. anonymous
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    Mar 11th 2012 !⃝

    I believe this song is about breaking up. "whoever" turns to the TV page so they don't see the truth, the obvious situation they're in. They don't know how it will end but the world will never go away. It all comes rushing in as it does for all of us, we realize it's over. Don't build a wall to hate each other. Just accept it as it was.

    The beat of the drum is her heart, he's close. The shadows barely clear the roof because the person's heart isn't happy, it's sad! They're both liberated and relieved because it's over, but they haven't lost that "contact" they had before.

  4. anonymous
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    Dec 15th 2010 !⃝

    For me this song tells me that when someone dies who is close to you, don't feel that that the memory of that person is gone. Don't build a wall, accept the loss and then you will win.

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
  5. anonymous
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    Mar 20th 2006 !⃝

    This song is about public complacency towards politics as evidenced by a struggle of two lovers separated by the Berlin Wall whose cries are ignored by everyone, from the crushing communist governments to the authoritarian democracies that try to control everything.

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