Life’s A Dream, When You Keep Dreams Alive

What dreams are we talking about

I define dream as the intense desire for something we want more than anything in the world; something we dream about at night, and can’t stop thinking about all day. Furthermore, the dream I am talking about is not like winning the lottery. It is the kind of dream we have to work for, and are willing to sacrifice other things to achieve it. Only those kind of dreams ultimately energize us, focus our efforts, and make us live up to our potential.

Your dream(s) can still come true

Everyone has – or had at some point in their life – a big dream. Unfortunately, it is easy to give up on our dreams for all the wrong reasons.
My song Life’s A Dream, When You Keep Dreams Alive wants to revive the hope in you that one day your dream(s) can still come true, as long as you don’t give up believing in them, and as long as you keep them with you day and night.
There are many personal stories of people that prove that if we just want something badly enough, it’s only a matter of time that we will achieve it.

We are (NOT!) born a couch potato

Someone once told me this: “We are all born to become couch potatoes”. I couldn’t disagree more with this kind of pessimistic thinking! We only become lazy when we give up on our ambitions, in other words, when we ignore our hopes and dreams that drive us to do more with our lives than just waiting for a lottery ticket to come through.

Don’t you give up on your dream(s)!

Life can really grind us down when we don’t pay attention to our dreams anymore. Successful people know that learning to embrace failure is a prerequisite for becoming successful. They don’t give up on their dreams no matter how often they fail. In fact, failure only motivates them to work harder.

It’s all about the journey

The bottom line is that when we believe our dreams will come true, our life already feels like a wonderful dream. In that sense, it doesn’t matter at all whether we reach a particular dream. All that counts is that we enjoy the process of trying to make it a reality.

I truly hope that this song inspires everyone to believe in and pursue their dreams with all they’ve got.

Wake up your dreams,
Embrace them and trust them,
Turn your life into a dream!

Quote from song

View or download the free sheet music below.

Life's A Dream When You Keep Dreams Alive - A Song by Thomas Gunther (remastered)

Lyrics to LIFE’S A DREAM, WHEN YOU KEEP DREAMS ALIVE!

1. Verse (female voice)

Life is made of dreams,
those dreams that live within us;
they show us a world without boundaries;
they give us hope,
and make us happy;
you won’t believe
what dreams can do.

2. Verse (male voice)

Dreams come from our imagination,
filled with desire
that we can’t ignore.
Follow your dreams
and you’ll be changing
for you will find out that your

1. Chorus

life’s a dream,
when you bring dreams to life;
life’s a dream,
when you keep dreams alive,
life’s a dream, when you’re living your dreams;
keep dreaming, turn your life into a dream!

stop wasting time,
welcome your dreams now!
keep them with you every night and day.
Dreams do come true,
for you and me, too!
So let us toast to dreams once more.

2. Chorus

Life’s a dream,
when you bring dreams to life;
life’s a dream,
when you keep dreams alive,
life’s a dream,

when you believe in dreams.

3. Chorus

Life’s a dream,
when you bring dreams to life;
life’s a dream,
when you keep dreams alive,
life’s a dream,

when you wake up to your dreams.
believe in…

Outro

life’s a dream,
keep dreaming!
life’s a dream,

keep dreaming!
life’s a dream,
when you bring dreams to life.
Wake up your dreams!

Wake up your dreams!
embrace them (embrace them!)

and trust them,
turn your life into a dream!

By Thomas Gunther

Thomas Gunther (known in Germany a Thommy Günther) is a jazz pianist and contemporary keyboardist, composer & song writer, arranger & orchestrator, music producer, and educator of contemporary music genre and styles. Originally from Germany, he lives in Chicago IL, USA. He has been an active member of the Chicago music scene for over 20 years, a professor of music at Columbia College Chicago, and creator of PopJazzKeys.com, TipsForPianists.com, MusicTrainingOnline.com. He is an expert in music notation using Finale (by Makemusic) and produces and records music with Logic Pro x (Apple, inc).

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