Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
If at first you don't succeed at love
Just dream a little dream about a girl so real
When she don't call up no more, well
Never give up, you gotta believe it
If only in my dreams (only in my dreams)
If only in my dreams she'll be right there next to me
And if I could say, if only in my dreams
You're the luckiest girl
In the world there's no other girl luckier
You don't have to explain it
('Cause you're the one who's in love)
and we'll have so much fun
On the beach, on the ocean of my dreams
Even only in my dreams
If at first you don't succeed at love
Just dream a little dream about a girl so real
And when she don't call up no more, well
Don't ever give up, yeah you gotta believe it
If only in my dreams she'll be right there next to me
(Only in my dreams) Only in my dreams
And if I could say, if only in my dreams,
You're the luckiest girl
In the world there's no other girl luckier
You don't have to explain it
('Cause you're the one who's in love)
and we'll have so much fun
On the beach, on the ocean in my dreams
Yeah, only in my dreams
And if I could see
That you'll be real with me
And we'll have so much fun
And it's just begun
If only in my dreams (you're the luckiest girl)
In the world there's no other more luckier
You don't have to explain it
('Cause you're the one who's in love)
And we'll have so much fun
If only in my dreams
Just dream a little dream about a girl so real
When she don't call up no more, well
Never give up, you gotta believe it
If only in my dreams (only in my dreams)
If only in my dreams she'll be right there next to me
And if I could say, if only in my dreams
You're the luckiest girl
In the world there's no other girl luckier
You don't have to explain it
('Cause you're the one who's in love)
and we'll have so much fun
On the beach, on the ocean of my dreams
Even only in my dreams
If at first you don't succeed at love
Just dream a little dream about a girl so real
And when she don't call up no more, well
Don't ever give up, yeah you gotta believe it
If only in my dreams she'll be right there next to me
(Only in my dreams) Only in my dreams
And if I could say, if only in my dreams,
You're the luckiest girl
In the world there's no other girl luckier
You don't have to explain it
('Cause you're the one who's in love)
and we'll have so much fun
On the beach, on the ocean in my dreams
Yeah, only in my dreams
And if I could see
That you'll be real with me
And we'll have so much fun
And it's just begun
If only in my dreams (you're the luckiest girl)
In the world there's no other more luckier
You don't have to explain it
('Cause you're the one who's in love)
And we'll have so much fun
If only in my dreams
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It is a strange but yet beautiful song and a legendary video.All I can say the video says you have to cheat your loved one literarly, but what actualy is saying you have to cheat your heart and go on with the dreaming or do good in the mean time or just be positive. I think this is the feeling that is transmitting, vivid, positive living