Hold On To Your Dreams

I've made a new movie star collage.


When I was a child, Mother and I went to the
movies all the time.
I pinned up movie star photos on
the wall of my back porch bedroom.

This is a story of how I came to compose

Hold On To Your Dreams.

It was late in the fall of 2000,

I was re-reading The Cry for Myth

On page 57 Rollo May had talked

about remembering a poem

as he crossed his college campus.

It was called

Hold Fast To Your Dreams

I was tired from working on recording

songs I’d written,

it was late at night,

so I rested and did some

improvisation, 
and hit five perfect notes

that fit 

Hold-On-To-Your-Dreams.

That’s the magic of composing music,

those same five notes in a different

rhythm or order,

could be a hundred other songs.

There is no more thrilling moment

than when you know you’ve

just composed a great song.

A Georgia State of Mind

was like that.

Morning Tears was like that, too.

For the middle part of the song,

I wrote the words first,

then I wrote notes

to go with these words:

And if you are not a great exception

yourself -- well, then

be a small one -- at least,

that your efforts may inspire others

as well.

A paraphrase of a quote from

Neitzsche that Rollo May had used

on that same page.

Using those words

made the melody

interestingly unpredictable

because of fitting notes

around those syllables 

The end of the lyrics:

Hold On to your dreams

even if they start to fade,

And don’t run and hide

If they seem to be denied

At least you know, you tried

So hold fast to your dreams

Give them wings to fly,

Hold on to your dreams, tonight

Coda: Everyone has a dream.

I narrated a story with photos

behind the Hold On To Your Dreams

music and the original

version made the BBC Short List

for a 2-min. My Story contest.

I couldn't resist this new ending .

“And Now It’s On YouTube,

Better than A Tombstone.”

Have a listen

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