“Dreams” is the best lyric Nicks ever wrote. She has never topped it lyrically. Even her other good songs have moments of cringe in them, but not this one. It’s so easily what Stevie always had trouble maintaining in her songwriting: sophisticated and believable and free of pretentiousness.
Quote:
It’s only right that you should play the way you feel it/
But listen carefully to the sound/
Of your loneliness
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The reiterative “dreams of loneliness” is as rich as anything in a contemporary poetry book.
Quote:
Have you any dreams you’d like to sell/
Dreams of loneliness/
Like a heartbeat drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had/
And what you lost
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