Album: Crime Of The Century (1974)

Charted: 13 15

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• Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer
  Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
  I said dreamer, you're nothing but a dreamer
  Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
  I said "far out, what a day, a year, a life it is!"
  You know, well you know, you had it comin' to you
  Now, there's not a lot I can do
  
  Dreamer, you stupid little dreamer
  So now you put your head in your hands, oh no
  
  I said, "far out, what a day, a year, a life it is!"
  You know, well you know, you had it comin' to you
  Now, there's not a lot I can do
  
  Work it out someday
  Oh ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma
  
  (If I could see something) you can see anything you want, boy
  (If I could be someone) you can be anyone, celebrate, boy
  
  (If I can do something) you can do something
  (If I could do anything) but can you do something out of this world?
  
  Take a dream on a sunday
  Take a life, take a holiday
  Take a lie, take a dreamer
  Dream, dream, dream, dream, dream, dream, dream, dream along
  Dreamer, dream and dream along
  C'mon and dream, dream along (come along)
  (C'mon and dream, dream along)
  
  (C'mon and dream, dream along) na na na na na na na na
  Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer (c'mon and dream and dream along)
  Can you put your hands in your head, oh no! (c'mon and dream and dream along)
  I said dreamer, you're nothing but a dreamer (c'mon and dream and dream along)
  Can you put your hands in your head, oh no! (oh, come on, oh, come on)
  Oh no Writer/s: RICHARD DAVIES, ROGER HODGSON
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

• Moosehead from Scmy second child, agent 42, the mighty quinn, has this album on her wall....as a decoration....
• Dave from Wheaton, IlThe live version peaked at #15 in Billboard, in '80.
• Joe from Grande Prairie Alberta, Cape VerdeI Need to be buried with this Record. So if anyone out there happens to be attending my Funeral Please take note. And it has to be the vinyl not a c.d. or tape...
• Cyberpope from Richmond, CanadaEversince this song came out, when I was in grade 3, we always used to sing this rather than just tell someone they're dreaming. . .
  
  "I'm gonna get an A on this test!"
  "Dreamer! Put your head in your hands, oh no!"
  
  
• Shannon from Sioux Falls, SdThis songs on the Acura car commercial from like 2006, but i heard they didn't sell Take The Long Way Home to the Greyhound company to use for one of there commercials.....hmmmm.
• Bella from Pretoria, --This song makes me get a grip on myself.
• Bella from Pretoria, --What?! I've seen The Parole Officer more than once and I don't remember this song! But I probably missed that part cos I don't like the movie much and never saw the whole one.
• Bob from Oakland, CaThey seem to really like the lyric "There's not a lot I can do," which also shows up in "Breakfast in America."
• Steve from Torrance, CaThis song, along with "Rudy", comprises one of four themes on the concept album "Crime of the Century": in this case Disillusionment/Self-Deception. The other themes are: Paranoia ("School" and "Bloody Well Right"), Mental Illness ("Hide in your shell" and "Asylum"), and Self-Destruction ("If everyone was listening" and "Crime of the Century"). The album's overall concept is the fatal flaws/hubris of human nature.

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