Middletown Dreams chords by Rush

"Middletown Dreams" is the sixth track on Rush's 1985 album, Power Windows. Much like the other songs on the album, "Middletown Dreams" features the synthesizer sounds and keyboard textures the band was exploring at the time. The lyrical message deals with the power of dreams, and throughout the verses, small stories are told of people who are trying to chase their dreams. Some may find the nature of the lyrics ambiguous, due to the almost melancholic mood the music sets, coupled with the lyrics, which may be taken either way: succeeding in chasing one's dreams, or failure to achieve one's dreams. When asked about this discrepancy, Geddy Lee had this to say: "I like to take a very positive attitude when I’m singing those songs, and I think that it’s important to inject an element of hope in there. So for me, those are very hopeful lyrics. I see these people as getting out. In verse two when that guy gets on the bus, man, he’s going to give it his best to make his goal come true. And verse three – the same thing – “[the] middle-aged Madonna.” I mean, she’s going out there. She’s going to do it. So, to me, they are hopeful lyrics, and according to my sense of life, I like to look at those as positive things in that the dreams were the motivating factor to get these people out of their little rooms, and out there giving it a shot." (Geddy Lee, Rockline, 1986) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.