Propaganda - Dream Within A Dream

from the LP "A Secret Wish" (the CD version of this song is a little longer)

Picture from left to right: Ralf Dörper, Susanne Freytag, Claudia Brücken, Michael Mertens. Voice in this song: Susanne.

Lyrics by Edgar Allan Poe:

All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream

Take this kiss upon the brow
And in parting from you now
This much let me avow
You are not wrong who deemed
That my days have been a dream
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, in a day
In a vision, or in none
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream

I stand amid the roar
Of the surf tormented shore
And I hold within my hands
Grains of golden sand
How few yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep
While I weep, while I weep
Oh God can I not grasp them with a tighter clasp
Oh God can I not save one from the pitiless wave
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream

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• Propaganda
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• Ralf Dörper
• Susanne Freytag
• Claudia Brücken
• Michael Mertens
• analogue version
• Schallplattenversion
• album
• A Secret Wish
• 1985
• Lyrics
• Edgar Allan Poe

[dwiseman1]

Massive respect to Claudia and co.. this is in retrospect one of the very best albums of the 80s.. and it still sounds fresh & perfect..

[beowulven]

From one of the greatest albums of all time.

[TheInvertedSyrup]

Electronica at its finest.

[1greebo]

Beautiful.

[DementedDegsy]

@wayniewayne your joking he was shite !

[Loobs666]

"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! ...tear up the planks! here, here! ... It is the beating of his hideous drummer!"

[Apocatequillable]

INCEPTION

[LilyWhiteLady]

Trevor Horn finished this off beautifully.....

[wayniewayne]

@r1u9d4o0lf hell yeah i still have the album on cd and it was made in 1985 still in mint con

[wayniewayne]

Edgar Allan Poe wrote some amazing poems

[r1u9d4o0lf]

I´ve listening this song for more than 25 years and it´s always amazing!