In Dreams
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- #1In Dreams
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- #2Lonely Wine
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- #3Shahdaroba
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- #4No One Will Ever Know
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- #5Sunset
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- #6House Without Windows
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- #7Dream
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- #8Blue Bayou
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- #9(They Call You) Gigolette
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- #10All I Have to Do Is Dream
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- #11Beautiful Dreamer
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- #12My Prayer
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In Dreams by Roy Orbison
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Roy OrbisonProduced by
Fred FosterWrited by
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Title Track off Roy Orbison’s 1963 album, In Dreams. Although wildly popular at the time, the song was largely forgotten until its use in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. The song appears throughout the movie, most memorably in this awesomely disturbing scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5VU8GJcg24
In Dreams Lyrics
[Intro]
A candy-colored clown they call the sandman
Tiptoes to my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper
"Go to sleep, everything is alright"
[Verse 1]
I close my eyes, then I drift away
Into the magic night, I softly say
A silent prayer like dreamers do
Then I fall asleep to dreams, my dreams of you
[Chorus]
In dreams, I walk with you
In dreams, I talk to you
In dreams, you're mine all of the time
We're together in dreams, in dreams
[Post-Chorus]
But just before the dawn
I awake and find you gone
I can't help it, I can't help it if I cry
I remember that you said goodbye
[Outro]
It's too bad that all these things
Can only happen in my dreams
Only in dreams
In beautiful dreams
In Dreams Q&A
Who wrote In Dreams's ?
In Dreams was written by Roy Orbison.
Who produced In Dreams's ?
In Dreams was produced by Fred Foster.
When did Roy Orbison release In Dreams?
Roy Orbison released In Dreams on Fri Feb 01 1963.
What has David Lynch said about using "In Dreams" in *Blue Velvet*?
Lynch told Frame into Focus:
I loved Roy Orbison from the first time I heard his music, and I kind of grew up, you know, with Roy Orbison. And I remember exactly when I decided to use “In Dreams” in Blue Velvet. It started that I was riding in a cab with Kyle McLaughlin through Central Park, and o...