You Make My Dreams

Album: Voices (1980)
Charted: 5
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  • What I want, you've got
    And it might be hard to handle
    But like a flame that burns the candle
    The candle feeds the flame, yeah yeah

    What I've got's full stock
    Of thoughts and dreams that scatter
    Then you pull them all together
    And how, I can't explain
    Oh yeah, well well you
    You make my dreams come true
    Well well well you, oh yeah
    You make my dreams come true

    Well, yeah

    On a night when bad dreams become a screamer
    When they're messin' with a dreamer
    I can laugh it in the face

    Twist and shout my way out
    And wrap yourself around me
    'Cause I ain't the way you found me
    And I'll never be the same, oh yeah

    Well 'cause you
    You make my dreams come true, oh yeah
    Well well well you, ooh ooh
    You make my dreams come true, whoa yeah

    Well listen to this, oh

    I'm down on my daydream
    Oh that sleepwalk should be over by now, I know
    Well you, yeah yeah you make my dreams come true, oh yeah
    I've been waiting for, waiting for you girl, oh yeah
    You make my dreams come true
    Make, you make, you make
    I've been waiting for, waiting for you girl
    For life
    You make my dreams come true, oh whoa whoa
    I've been waiting for, waiting for, waiting for, waiting for
    Waiting for, waiting for, waiting for
    (You make my dreams)

    I've been waiting for you girl
    (You make my dreams) Writer/s: Daryl Hall, John Oates, Sara Allen
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

  • Dan from CanadaThe Toronto Maple Leafs also used this song as a goal song during the late 2010s - early 2020s.
  • Paul Osman from Liverpool, EnglandMany African-American singers and bands released songs which were not hits but found their way to the UK to be played in northern discos as Northern Soul one such act were the Soul Brothers Six. I wonder if Hall & Oates heard them? The SB6 had a song called Thank You Baby For Loving Me and you can hear a clear influence on Hall & Oates soulful sound Check the SB6 song on YouTube and be inspired!
  • AnonymousFavorite song to dance to!
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 27th 1982, Hall & Oates performed "You Make My Dreams" on the NBC-TV program 'Saturday Night Live"...
    Ten months earlier on April 26th, 1981 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #82; and on June 28, 1981 it peaked at #5 (for 3 weeks) and spent 21 weeks on the Top 100 (and for 6 of those 21 weeks it was on the Top 10)...
    Was track two of side two of the duo's ninth studio album, 'Voices', and the album peaked at #17 on Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart...
    Three other tracks from the album also made the Top 100; ""How Does It Feel to Be Back" (#30), "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" (#12), and "Kiss on My List" (#1 for 3 weeks)...
    Track three of side two on the album was "Everytime You Go Away", it was composed by Daryl Hall and not released as a single, but in 1985 Paul Young covered it and it reached #1 on the Top 100.
  • Keith from Philadelphia, PaPhilly's own!!!!
  • Jon from St. Paul, MnHow come it is your least favorite from them Paul?
  • Paul from Detroit, Mimy least favorite from this creative Duo.
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