Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
Caroline Polachek
“Go as a Dream” evokes the liminal space between wakefulness and dreaming through dream-like symbolism placed in a sorrowful and ethereal soundscape.
The lyrics are full of metaphors of distortion and unreliability – common experiences in dreams. However this is paired with imagery of prestidigitat...
[Verse 1]
Someone changed the clock
And left the window open
When I must have drifted off
And it's just your kind of trick
To leave me empty-handed
Leave me with a riddle unsolved
[Refrain]
Ah, ah, mmm
I don't know if I can do this
I don't know if I can make this peace
[Verse 2]
And you're almost like that card
Played by the magician
But this time, you're not coming back
And it's slipping through my fists
Blurry at the edges
Leaving only legend
[Chorus]
You go as a dream
Go as a dream
Go as a dream
Go as a dream
[Refrain]
Ah, ah, mmm
I don't know if I can do this
I don't know if I can make this peace
[Verse 3]
And it hit me like a brick
A joke without a punchline
A script that nobody read
If you saw me lying here
Through my bedroom ceiling
You would have me pick up my head and
[Chorus]
Go as a dream
Go as a dream
Go as a dream
Go as a dream
[Outro]
Ah, ah, mmm
Ah, ah, mmm
Go as a Dream was written by Caroline Polachek & Danny L Harle & Robin Hannibal.
Go as a Dream was produced by Dan Carey & Caroline Polachek & Danny L Harle.
Caroline Polachek released Go as a Dream on Fri Oct 18 2019.
“Go As A Dream” was first written as a piano ballad before Pang even took shape, in the spring of 2017. I sketched lyrics for it in LA with Robin Hannibal but quickly lost interest and abandoned it. When I rediscovered it last year I was struck by how Japanese the melody in the verses felt- it trigg...