If I Can Dream

This is one of the best performances ever captured on tape, in my opinion, and definitely my favorite song that Elvis ever recorded. I liked Elvis Presley so much as a singer. I think a lot of singers today just don't get the emotions of a song. Elvis really felt the music.



Here are the lyrics, not that you need them with this performance. But they are wonderful in their own right. The song was written by Walter Earl Brown. It was purported that after Elvis Presley heard the song for the first time he said, "I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in."

IF I CAN DREAM

There must be lights burning brighter somewhere
Got to be birds flying higher in a sky more blue
If I can dream of a better land
Where all my brothers walk hand in hand
Tell me why, oh why, oh why can't my dream come true

There must be peace and understanding sometime
Strong winds of promise that will blow away
All the doubt and fear
If I can dream of a warmer sun
Where hope keeps shining on everyone
Tell me why, oh why, oh why won't that sun appear

We're lost in a cloud
With too much rain
We're trapped in a world
That's troubled with pain
But as long as a man
Has the strength to dream
He can redeem his soul and fly

Deep in my heart there's a trembling question
Still I am sure that the answer's gonna come somehow
Out there in the dark, there's a beckoning candle
And while I can think, while I can talk
While I can stand, while I can walk
While I can dream, please let my dream
Come true, right now
Let it come true right now
Oh yeah