Dream Of You And I Lyrics - You And I - Jeff Buckley

This is, uh 

Based on some music that I heard in a dream 

That I saw in a dream 

Called, it's going to be called "you and I", ouch! 

'Cause it's what the people in the dream were saying 

You and I, you and I, you and I 

All for you 

It's like that, I heard the people singing that in a dream 

Yeah, and it was a dream where I was in an auditorium at a college 

And everybody was congregated and singing the same words 

And there was this, y'know a bunch of 

This band on stage and they were like, y'know, sorta spacey Deadhead band 

With teen- y'know, like, guys in their twenties, like a bunch of grunge guys but 

Kinda playing this, this, other thing, not like what I'm playing here on guitar 

And the people kept on beating out, uh 

Rhythms on drumsticks 

This really great rhythm, it was in like, 7/4, this really cool space jam 

And what it was, it was a song 

I dreamed that this song was about, uh, about this guy, uh 

Or, y'know, the person in the song is singing to his lover 

Supposedly 

That uh, y'know, he's completely theirs 

The lover has forbidden anybody to have contact with him 

The lover has taken away his freedom, taken away his days and nights 

Taken away his, y'know, his dreams 

Uh, sent away his friends 

Forbidden him to, y'know, get close to his parents, all that stuff 

And what it was, it was an AIDS rally 

And that song was about AIDS 

Or about something like that 

So every time the refrain came around 

The people would say "you and I, you and I, you and I" 

And they point to the sign that said, y'know, like, it said AIDS with a circle with a slash through it 

And they go "all for you" 

They go like, point to the sign, so that was the dream 

I woke up with it 

'Kay? 

Anyway, as long as you got that on tape, I'll remember that