This is exactly, what Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart did through their breakup and they came up with this massive hit. Hold your head up through your issues and don’t let it fall down no matter what. So, Eurythmics added a bridge to lighten the mood and give hope to the listeners. So far, a song about sweet dreams sounds quite dark and bleak. There will always be both of these kinds of people in society, and sometimes you have no choice in the role you play in this. Everybody flocks to the next hot commodity, suck it dry, and move on to the next. These lines refer to a much general sentiment of how society operates.Įverybody tries to use someone else as a stepping stone to further their success or gains, especially in the show business. The lyrics in the pre-chorus singing that some people want to use/abuse you and get used/abused by you, have been interpreted in a sexual light by some fans. This is why we are always out looking for something. Everybody has to fill the holes in their souls with something. If they did not find success in their career, they would have had to settle with something else to numb this pain. And it was their career-defining hit “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).” It looked as if something better had to be just out there. Needless to say, both of them were deeply unsatisfied with the state they were in. To make things worse, Eurythmics’ first album ‘In the Garden’ (1981) had little success. On top of this, they were having relationship struggles. There is always something sweeter out there.Īnnie Lennox and Dave Stewart were both in a band named The Tourist that broke off in 1980. You could have traveled the entire world, but you would still be dissatisfied. Or, when we do reach one sweet dream, another appears just around the corner. There is always a sweeter dream just beyond our reach. These famous lyrics from the hook of the song talk about the never-ending chase that every human being does in their lifetime in this world. I’ve traveled the world and the seven seas Stewart, however, thought the lyrics too depressing and added the “hold your head up, moving on” line to make it more uplifting.”Īnd so it became what they had envisioned for it. The song was an expression of how I felt: hopeless and nihilistic. How can it get worse?… I was feeling very vulnerable. But how was something magical created out of this chaos?Īnnie Lennox told The Guardian that they did not want to create a depressing song about their tumulous personal life So, it is clear that the song was birthed in a time of turmoil in the relationship between the co-creators of the song. And he just went, well, ‘I’ll do this anyway. We were trying to write, and I was miserable. I thought it was the end of the road and that was that.
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