Album: The Stranger (1977)

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• While in these days of quiet desperation
  As I wander through the world in which I live
  I search everywhere, for some new inspiration
  But it's more than cold reality can give
  
  If I need a cause for celebration
  Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind
  I rely on my imagination
  And I dream of an imaginary time
  
  [Chorus: ]
  I know that everybody has a dream
  Everybody has a dream
  And this is my dream, my own
  Just to be at home
  And to be all alone...with you
  
  If I believe in all the words I'm saying
  And if a word from you can bring a better day
  Then all I have are these games that I've been playing
  To keep my hope from crumbling away
  
  So let me lie and let me go on sleeping
  And I will lose myself in palaces of sand
  And all the fantasies that I have been keeping
  Will make the empty hours easier to stand
  
  [Chorus: ]
  
  Everybody has a dream... (Repeat) Writer/s: BILLY JOEL
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

• Neil from Detroit, MiAlong with "Get It Right The First Time", this song was one of the most underrated songs on the album. On a personal level, the song has served as a very motivational, driving force in my life due to its passionate meaning.
• Richard from Somerdale , NjThis song goes into a playing of The Stranger at the end, as Joel whistles the tune at the intro and end of the song. It kinda serves as a ender to the album, as Stranger's "main" song is The Stranger. It also creates a slight connection to one of Joel's other albums, The Nylon Curtain. At the end of Where's The Orchestra? (Nylon Curtain's closing song, great song by the way) fades out with a slower version of Allentown (Curtain's main song, also great), and finishes the album. The main difference is that at the end of Everybody Has a Dream, it plays an almost-direct copy of the mysterious piano/whistling solo from Stranger, while Where's The Orchestra plays a more tranquil and peaceful version of Allentown.
• Joseph from Oyster Bay, NyAs per. Phill Ramone (Producer of "The Stranger") this song was written around 1971 and suposed to be on the Cold Spring Harbor album.

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