《If I Can Dream》是由Walter Earl Brown创作,美国摇滚乐男歌手Elvis Presley演唱的歌曲。因其与马丁•路德•金(Martin Luther King Jr.)1963年的《我有一个梦想》(I Have a Dream)演讲相似而闻名。
Elvis Presley的音乐超越了种族以及文化疆界,把布鲁斯、乡村、蓝调音乐、蓝草音乐和福音音乐融会贯通,形成了具有鲜明个性的独特曲风 [35] ,充满了激情澎湃的性能量和叛逆感,催生了摇滚乐时代的到来。Elvis能把任何风格的音乐用摇滚的形式表现出来,无论是马里奥•兰扎式的浪漫情歌、直白大胆的布鲁斯,还是杰基•威尔逊风格的R&B。而他的音乐中出现了最早的摇滚乐雏形,虽然他那个时代还没有人强调摇滚乐的意义,但他的音乐形式和舞台表现方式,已经有了摇滚的感觉。
If I Can Dream歌词:
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 oh why
There must be peace and understanding sometime
Strong winds of promise that will blow away
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 answers
Answers gonna come somehow
Out there in the dark
There's a beckoning candle yeah
And while I can think while I can talk
While I can stand while I can walk
While I can dream
Oh please let my dream
Come true
Right now
Let it come true right now
Oh yeah