• Track: Street of Dreams
• Artist: Rainbow
• Album: Bent Out of Shape
• Year: 1983

Lyrics:

I heard the sound of voices in the night
Spellbound there was someone calling
I looked around no one was in sight
Pulled down I just kept on falling

I’ve seen this place before
You were standing by my side
I’ve seen your face before tonight
Maybe I just see what I want it to be

I know it’s a mystery
Do you remember me on a street of dreams
Running through my memory
On the street of dreams

There you stood a distant memory
So good like we never parted
Said to myself I knew you’d set me free
And here we are right back where we started

Something’s come over me
And I don’t know what to feel
Maybe this fantasy is real
Now I know I see what I want it to be

But it’s still a mystery
Do you remember me on the street of dreams
Running through my memory
On the street of dreams

You are on every face I see
On the street of dreams
Tell me have you always been
On the street of dreams

Will we ever meet again my friend
Do you know just what it meant to be
On the street of dreams
Never know just who you’ll see do ya

On the street of dreams
You can be who you want to be oh yeah
I can hear you calling me
I can feel you haunting me

Haunting me

Get It:

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Among many great Rainbow tunes, Street of Dreams is one of the most frequent flyers here at Dances with Bass Industries. The track hit number two on the mainstream rock charts even though many of Rainbow’s hardcore fans eschewed the song because of its obviously commercial rock underpinnings. The album, Bent Out of Shape, hit number 34 on the Billboard charts in 1983.

Rainbow’s vocalist at the time, Joe Lynn Turner, had a polished radio-friendly voice that lent itself to more commercially viable tunes, such as Stone Cold and Since You Been Gone (though that song was originally sung by Graham Bonnet). The band’s previous vocalist, the diminutive and bombastic Ronnie James Dio, had a voice that was much better suited for the hard-rocking sound of Rainbow in its earlier days. As many know, Dio left Rainbow in 1979 to join Black Sabbath after Ozzy Osborne’s departure for a solo career.

Guitar legend and Rainbow founder Ritchie Blackmore is the only member of the band to appear on every Rainbow album.

Video:

Following is a video for the radio release version of Street of Dreams.

Rainbow also released a longer version of the video that was rarely shown:

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