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Eels — Trouble With Dreams
Album: Blinking Lights And Other Revelations
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Released: 2005
Length: 4:26
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There's nothing that i wanna do
More than get alone and be with you
Trouble with dreams is they don't come true
And when they do they can't catch up to you

You don't need a thing from me
But i need something big from you
'cause you know i've got
An awful lot of big dreams

I'm walking down a lonely road
Clear to me now but i was never told
Trouble with dreams is you never know
When to hold on and when to let go

If you let me down it's alright
At least that leaves something for me
'cause you know i've got
An awful lot of big dreams

This is the life that i must lead now
Crossing fingers and wiping brow
Trouble with dreams is you can't pretend
Something with no beginning has an end

You don't need a thing from me
But i need something big from you
'cause you know i've got an awful lot of big dreams
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 jbunniii wrote:

I must have been in a bad mood last time RP played this.  5->7.



I've done the same with other songs
Posted 2 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
I'm liking this...
Posted 3 years ago by Rob57    [ Reply ]
 scraig wrote:
The harpsichord throws this song off the charts!
 

Scrolled past this comment just as it kicked in.
Posted 3 years ago by Phlegmaticman    [ Reply ]
Had the absolute lucky opportuity to see Mr E et al in the Royal Albert Hall a few years ago.
Nobody does "downer rock" like Mr. E as he put it that night.
Posted 6 years ago by Stropatus    [ Reply ]
Yeah, man! How can one describe the feeling of jamming out large and loud to "Saturday Morning," from SHOOTENANNY, on David Letterman, while on vacation back in the USAm, summer 2003 only days after hearing it on RP while living and working in Japan? I was also blessed and fortunate enough to score tickets to see EELS play an absolutely knock-out show within the inimitable soundscape of Shibuya's Club Quattro shortly after my arrival back in Tokyo...and even better, I took my girlfriend at the time, a wild and crazy gal from Okinawa called "Show-ko," who told me, translated, that "that night was the 'peak of feeling,' she said, both "because of being with (me) after and while at that particular and amazing event" and 'seeing Mr. E get toward down so mightily downly as only he and his talented bass player and drummer can do,'" and, she said, "the show and the night we spent together after it made (her) feel that she had reached the feeling of 'the height and breadth of being.'" This I revere as one of the highest compliments I have ever received. I myself shall forever recall it as a night almost painfully full of joys, both mental and physical, for I was, even then, well aware of and acquainted with the quintessential nugget of Buddhist philosophy that postulates that emotional states are as ephemeral as cherry blossoms every spring.
I feel a great debt to RP, Mark Oliver Everett, and his band. I wish I could have hung onto my sweet, petite, and sassy little Shoko, too, but she moved back to Okinawa to be with family, and, well, maybe she felt premonitions of the Fukushima Disaster, which is what ultimately drove even me from that very special planet in the Galaxy that I loved to call Home, after twenty full and fruitful years of making it mine...
Thank goodness, RP and EELS seem to forever keep me plugged in and partying along like yesterday to such fine memories, co-ordinates, and connections. 
EELS ROCK IN A SPECIAL WAY...
And let us never forget that
radio paradise RULES!
——- 

alcolp96277 wrote:
This band makes me so happy every time I hear them. And I found them in very strange way. Watching Yesman. I liked one song, so I was waiting for captions at the end of the movie and I saw Eels. They never did the song I liked, but maaaan what a band I found.

Posted 7 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
This band makes me so happy every time I hear them. And I found them in very strange way. Watching Yesman. I liked one song, so I was waiting for captions at the end of the movie and I saw Eels. They never did the song I liked, but maaaan what a band I found.
Posted 7 years ago by alcolp96277    [ Reply ]
 markybx wrote:
weirdly beautiful {#Hug}
 
This comment applies to many Eels songs.  : )
Posted 8 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
weirdly beautiful {#Hug}
Posted 8 years ago by markybx    [ Reply ]
I like the song 😀
Posted 8 years ago by don10277    [ Reply ]
Solid writing, sonic masterpiece.  Simplistic?  Many times less is more.  True genius sometimes results in in stark beauty e=mc2
Sound engineer gets my top honors on this album. 
Posted 8 years ago by LinThizzy    [ Reply ]
I always gladly welcome, commiserate with, and celebrate all the fascinating, relevant, and REAL sentiments of the GENIUS Mister E.!
Posted 8 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
{#Crown} Rock on! What a stonking tune!{#Music}
Posted 9 years ago by prefabsprout    [ Reply ]
shades of Friday Night Shock theatre in that organ moosik
Posted 11 years ago by Isabeau    [ Reply ]
Thats a perfect sounding P bass right there........ {#Guitarist} Eels rule

Posted 13 years ago by mrdak    [ Reply ]
The ticking clock at the beginning of this song led me to think Russians by Sting was about to play
Posted 13 years ago by 1wolfy    [ Reply ]
I first heard this album in September '05 when I was staying with a friend in Berlin and his girlfriend was playing it one day. Turns out she's a huge Eels fan.  Bought it when I got home and return to its stark beauty regularly.  Great record.
Posted 13 years ago by rathersnappish    [ Reply ]
 Derecho wrote:

Yes, they both sound awesome.

 
Cool stuff.  So simplistic.  Puts on a good show too!

Posted 13 years ago by januismer    [ Reply ]
 MannAudioltd wrote:
is it me or do the eels and beck sound the same
 
Yes, they both sound awesome.

Posted 13 years ago by Derecho    [ Reply ]
{#Bananajam}loving it!

Posted 14 years ago by moonsaura    [ Reply ]
 MannAudioltd wrote:
is it me or do the eels and beck sound the same
 
It's you.

Posted 14 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
is it me or do the eels and beck sound the same
Posted 14 years ago by MannAudioltd    [ Reply ]
I must have been in a bad mood last time RP played this.  5->7.
Posted 14 years ago by jbunniii    [ Reply ]
Nice 1
Posted 15 years ago by contractor07    [ Reply ]
My favorite Eels song by far. Good stuff.
Posted 15 years ago by DaveInSaoMiguel    [ Reply ]
 malvey254 wrote:

Best song off a great album. 

Does anyone else think of The Munsters during the outro?


 

A bit! Listen to "Mexicali Baby" by the Flat Duo Jets. Fabulous!
Posted 15 years ago by Exene    [ Reply ]
The harpsichord throws this song off the charts!
Posted 15 years ago by scraig    [ Reply ]
Eel Pie Music
Posted 15 years ago by LPCity    [ Reply ]
Every time I hear the Eels on RP, I check to see if it is something new from World Party... Similar voice to Karl.
Posted 15 years ago by Valley_Boy    [ Reply ]

this is fresh!


Posted 15 years ago by gloriajanell    [ Reply ]
Wicked good segue from Alice Russell's High Up On The Hook.


Posted 15 years ago by RadioDoc    [ Reply ]

Best song off a great album. 

Does anyone else think of The Munsters during the outro?


Posted 15 years ago by malvey254    [ Reply ]
A neologism worth preserving—Glockenspiely
Posted 15 years ago by FrankMc    [ Reply ]
eels ..are...is? great.
i love the glockenspiely thing.
its nice.

{#Bananasplit}{#Bananajam}{#Guitarist}{#Bananajam}
Posted 15 years ago by arsenault    [ Reply ]
Enough of this godawful racket already!!!  {#Frustrated}
Posted 16 years ago by Excelsior    [ Reply ]
personally, this hits the spot..........I'm trying to go to sleep and I'm thinking of someone I should'nt be.....ooohh
Posted 16 years ago by crazy    [ Reply ]
jpfueler wrote:
I don't mind eels
Except as meals.
And the way they feels.
(Ogden Nash)


i love you.

Posted 16 years ago by lophrequa    [ Reply ]
Posted 16 years ago by Excelsior    [ Reply ]
MissAmy wrote:
Wow, the Eels have gotten kind of happy lately.
just for the record... i disagree completely
Posted 16 years ago by DrGonzo    [ Reply ]
E rocks!
Posted 17 years ago by SchoepTone    [ Reply ]
awesome song. Way to *actually* DJ, instead of searching for words.
Posted 17 years ago by sigmonsays    [ Reply ]
I had a dream the other night where I told some one (in my dream) that the scene we were in reminded me of one of my dreams. Now that is really cool. I also dream that when I have to go to the bathroom (in real life), I go around in my dreams looking for a bathroom. That's my subconscious telling me to get the fuck out of bed and go take a piss!
Posted 17 years ago by horstman    [ Reply ]
I don't mind eels Except as meals. And the way they feels. (Ogden Nash)
Posted 17 years ago by jpfueler    [ Reply ]
Posted 17 years ago by driver8    [ Reply ]
Can't help but see Spy Kids scenarios when I hear this. Arrrgh!
Posted 17 years ago by 2Hawks    [ Reply ]
I think I love Mr. E. The video (available on YouTube) for "Hey Man, Now You're Really Living" stole my heart.
Posted 17 years ago by meydele    [ Reply ]
Mr. E gets better and better; I don't know if they have a collection of singles out yet but I bet its pretty damn good.
Posted 17 years ago by canadapaul    [ Reply ]
This guy has such a cool voice.
Posted 17 years ago by lathyris    [ Reply ]
This song has a great beat to it!
Posted 17 years ago by heyjoe3577    [ Reply ]
Great song, Downloading the album right now!!! (iTunes of course - paying for it!)
Posted 17 years ago by pousso    [ Reply ]
Was that a theremin in there? Either that, or it's a good simulation of one. Nice stuff - ethereal and gravelly.
Posted 17 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
MissAmy wrote:
Wow, the Eels have gotten kind of happy lately.
Yeah, and it's better than kind of crappy!
Posted 17 years ago by Dior    [ Reply ]
Wow, the Eels have gotten kind of happy lately.
Posted 17 years ago by MissAmy    [ Reply ]