Don’t Dream It’s Over

I love all the Crowded House songs. Whenever they come on the radio they always lift me up. ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over‘ is one of my favourite and I have enjoyed reading people’s interpretation of the lyrics at the website ‘Song Meanings‘. For me this song evokes a feeling of optimism and strength, even when the road is difficult.

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

The music connects me to my teenage years (I was just twelve when this song came out in 1986). It also connects me to my journey to New Zealand, from England, in my early twenties. It connects me now to my family on the other side of the world and keeps me strong.

It reminds me of the deep love I have within, given to me by my parents, that’s impossible to contain. I feel gratitude for life leading my heart to my husband, and his to mine. I feel blessed that we have three children to share our love with. And living, as expats, oceans away from a raft of loved ones, nothing can stop the bond of love between us.

Hey now, hey now
Don’t dream it’s over
Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in

They come, they come
To build a wall between us
We know they won’t win

I am grateful to be living a dream, but it’s tainted with the pains of the world too. This song reminds me to be grateful for what I have.

Now I’m towing my car, there’s a hole in the roof
My possessions are causing me suspicion but there’s no proof
In the paper today tales of war and of waste
But you turn right over to the T.V. page

Hey now, hey now
Don’t dream it’s over
Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in

They come, they come
To build a wall between us
We know they won’t win

I’m walking the path destined for me and when I fully embrace it, rather than resist and try to turn away from it, I feel liberated.

And ‘the wall between us’ – well as much as we love them with all our hearts, our children do try to build a wall between us (unintentionally of course)! Our children take all that we have to give . We have to carve out time to keep the door to our hearts forever open.

Now I’m walking again to the beat of a drum
And I’m counting the steps to the door of your heart
Only the shadows ahead barely clearing the roof
Get to know the feeling of liberation and release

Hey now, hey now
Don’t dream it’s over
Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in

They come, they come
To build a wall between us
Don’t ever let them win.

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Linking up with Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop on the prompt: ‘Your song’