"Dream" — Johnny Mercer's instruction to the unconscious.
Get in touch with that sundown fellow
As he tiptoes across the sand
Hes got a million kinds of stardust
Pick you favrite brand, and
Dream, when youre feeling blue
Dream, thats the thing to do
Just watch the smoke rings rise in the air
Youll find your share of memories there
So dream when the day is through
Dream, and they might come true
Things never are as bad as they seem
So dream, dream, dream
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- Written by Johnny Mercer in 1944. The instruction to dream — specifically, to dream of the beloved — as both consolation and strategy. Mercer wrote it as a simple exercise; it became one of the most recorded songs of the 1940s.