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written & performed by the Patti Smith Group
chord interpretation by selfademus

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Every night before I go to sleep
Find a ticket, win a lottery,
Scoop the pearls up from the sea
Cash them in and buy you all the things you need. 
Every night before I rest my head
See those dollar bills go swirling 'round my bed.
I know they're stolen, but I don't feel bad.
I take that money, buy you things you never had. 

Oh, baby, it would mean so much to me,
Oh, baby, to buy you all the things you need for free.
I'll buy you a jet plane, baby,
Get you on a higher plane to a jet stream
And take you through the stratosphere
And check out the planets there and then take you down
Deep where it's hot, hot in Arabia, babia, then cool, cold fields of snow
And we'll roll, dream, roll, dream, roll, roll, dream, dream.
When we dream it, when we dream it, when we dream it,
We'll dream it, dream it for free, free money,
Free money, free money, free money, free money, free money, free money. 

Every night before I go to sleep
Find a ticket, win a lottery.
Every night before I rest my head
See those dollar bills go swirling 'round my bed. 

Oh, baby, it would mean so much to me,
Baby, I know our troubles will be gone.
Oh, I know our troubles will be gone, goin' gone
If we dream, dream, dream for free.
And when we dream it, when we dream it, when we dream it,
Let's dream it, we'll dream it for free, free money,
Free money, free money, free money, free.

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Lex Average	#1 by Lex Nafrodosze at Jul 6, 1973 at 5:46 AM EST
	i fucking looooooooooove this song i love johnny layton too

No Picture Braxton Lead Player	#2 by Braxton Overby at Jan 16, 1987 at 12:24 AM EST
	its someone tucking someone dear in at night, saying 'goodnight, tomorrow things will be better' because "find a ticket, win a lottery..." then after tucking the loved one in she, herself, goes to bed 'see those dollars bills go swirling...know their stolen but I dont feel bad' She doesnt have the money but she just gave away the comfort and the dream of a better life that they symbolises. next verse shows how desperatly she wished she was able to give that loved one a better life and all the things they could do if they had them. but all they have is a a dream, but its a beatiful dream so *lets dream it, we'll dream it for free, free money'

No Picture brad Average	#3 by brad at Jun 11, 1991 at 10:46 AM EST
	I remember my dad telling me about this song and the Horses-album. It's one of my dads favourite songs and now I really like it too. There's so much energy in it, and the lyrics are pretty good as well. Yeah, actually I saw that this song was used in the new Toy Machine-video. And I felt so bad, when I saw that song in the credits, cause the song was taken from a punk-compilation and Patti Smith's Horses is one of the best albums ever, so it amazed me that Jonny Layton did'nt really knew about Horses when he uses on of the songs from there!

No Picture Thomas Average	#4 by Thomas Buckman at Jul 6, 1992 at 4:47 PM EST
	i've always felt like this song was about someone who was in dire need of money so they ended up stealing it - "see those dollar bills swirling around my head/i know they're stolen, but i don't feel bad." and she doesn't feel bad because what she did with the money was good ("i'll buy you all the things you'll ever need/baby, i know all our troubles will be gone"). just my interpretation though. it's just too bad she doesn't get more comments than she does.

No Picture Corey Average	#5 by Corey La Plante at Oct 26, 1993 at 5:02 AM EST
	I'd rather say the lyrics are a critique of a money-crazy culture. At first, whether or not the character has any money and how he/she might have acquired it is ambiguous: there's the "win the lottery"-line but also one about the character knowing the money to be stolen. Does he/she consider lottery-money stolen from all of those who didn't win and dream, as the character dreams, about having endless money and helping loved-ones by buying them everything they could ever (or not) need? Still, the core doesn't lie in the verses but in the rest of the lyrics, who unveil a person in an manically excited dream-state about how the wonder of life where money no longer is an issue. The music contributes to the euforic haze as the character flies from stratosphere to desert to winter and worries are no more. "Every night before I rest my head, see those dollar bills go swirling 'round my bed", "I know our troubles will be gone if we dream, dream for free": but it is indeed only dreaming, another pore soul in a rush, thinking of what life would be with all that money.

No Picture Frost Wanna Be	#6 by Frost Bite at Sep 12, 1995 at 12:33 AM EST
	i wish someone would dedicate this to me

No Picture Murders in the Average	#7 by Murders in the Rue Morgue at Jul 17, 1997 at 3:04 AM EST
	i dedicate this to black black...happy? lol. well i think its about money craze and that u need moeny to get what u want. or maybe in the part where shes saying id buy u all the things for free.... maybe she needs the money to get to someone. well its a greeeeeeeeeeat song! love love love.