Elvis Presley was a hero to most…!

Louis Armstrong “Wonderful World”

Marvin Gaye “What´s Goin´On”

Bob Dylan “The Times Are-A-Changing”

John Lennon “Imagine”

Prince “Sign´O´The Times”

Curtis Mayfield “Hard Times”

…And this is just a few of many songs with a deeper meaning – something to tell the listener, having an agenda – a political message!

Today Elvis Presley would have been 78 years old. It´s 35 years since he passed away too soon back in 1977.

When it comes to songs with a deeper meaning. Everyone knows his fantastic “In the Ghetto” but Elvis Presleys version of “If I Can Dream” is never mentioned in the company of the aforementioned songs.

Elvis was a hero to most, but he has never, as far as I know, got known for the deeper meaning in “If I Can Dream”.

On his could-have-been 78th birthday it´s time to give Elvis the respect he deserves. For making the song his own, for showing his soul – and for ripping his voice apart like I have never heard before!

This is Elvis at his best and strongest in one of his greatest performances ever!

Here are the lyrics…

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

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 wont that sun appear

Were lost in a cloud

With too much rain

Were 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 tremblin question

Still I am sure that the answer 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, please let my dream

Come true, ohhhhh, right now

Let it come true right now

Oh yeah

Elvis was a hero to most – and is still today to me…A hero!