Following Roy Orbison's soaring voice expressing a fragile state of lovelorn dreaming, by contrast a sassier style by the New Yorkers, with Debbie Harry seductively revealing how flirted passion is always free. From the band's fourth album, Eat To The Beat (1979) this is just about perfect new wave pop, and Chris Stein later confessed that it was heavily influenced by Abba's Dancing Queen. But another quaint side to this song is its Anglified side, with Harry's debutante and tea reference in the first verse, mixing the prim and proper with the sexual. Another notable feature is the unrestrained drumming by Clem Burke.
[Verse 1]
When I met you in the restaurant
You could tell I was no debutante
You asked me what's my pleasure
A movie or a measure?
I'll have a cup of tea and tell you of my
[Chorus]
Dreaming, dreaming is free
Dreaming, dreaming is free
[Verse 2]
I don't want to live on charity
Pleasure's real or is it fantasy?
Reel to reel is living rarity
People stop and stare at me
We just walk on by - we just keep on dreaming
[Bridge]
Feet feet, walking a two mile
Meet meet, meet me at the turnstile
I never met him, I'll never forget him
Dream, dream, even for a little while
Dream, dream, filling up an idle hour
Fade away, radiate
[Verse 3]
I sit by and watch the river flow
I sit by and watch the traffic go
Imagine something of your very own
Something you can have and hold
I'd build a road in gold just to have some
[Chorus]
Dreaming, dreaming is free
Dreaming, dreaming is free
Dreaming, dreaming is free
Dreaming, dreaming is free.
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