Van Halen - Dreams

Originally in C, I play in C an octave down, and it’s

*still* a little too high. Insane.

Start with a slow approximation of the intro riff

Cadd9	F	Am	G
Fsus2	Am7
Csus4	C	Csus2
→	→

Now fast, with excessive suspensions

I play only one of these, or play both but double-time

C	C/E	F	G
C	C/E	Am	G

Am	F6
World turns black and	white

Gsus2	Am
Pictures in an empty	room

	F6	Gsus2
Your	love starts fallin’	down

	Am
Better ch	ange your tune

	F6	Gsus2
Yeah, you	reach for the gold	en ring

Reach for the sky

	F6	Gsus2
Baby, just	spread your	wings

Not super-faithful to the original chords here

	G/C	C	G/C	C
And get	high	er an	d hi	gher

	Am	Em	Em7	F
Straight	up we’ll	climb

	G/C	C	G/C	C
We’ll get	high	er an	d hi	gher

	Am	Em	Em7	F
Leave it a	ll be	hind

Am	F6
Run, run, run a	way

	Gsus2	Am
Like a	train runnin’ off the	track

	F6	Gsus2
Got the	truth being left be	hind

	Am
Fall bet	ween the cracks

F6	Gsus2
Standin’ on broken d	reams

	Am
Never l	osin’ sight, ah

	F6	Gsus2
Well just	spread your w	ings

	G/C	C	G/C	C
We’ll get	high	er an	d hi	gher

	Am	Em	Em7	F
Straight	up we’ll	climb

	G/C	C	G/C	C
We’ll get	high	er an	d hi	gher

	Am	Em	Em7	F	Gsus4
Leave it a	ll be	hind

	Cadd9	C	F
So baby	dry	your	eyes

	Am	G
Save a	ll the tears you’ve	cried

	Fsus2	Am7	Csus4	C	Csus2
Oh,	that’s what	dreams are m	ade	of

	Em7	F	Am	G
‘Cause	we be	long in a wo	rld that must be	strong

	Fsus2	Am7	Csus4	C	Csus2
Oh,	that’s what	dreams are m	ade o	f

Crazy out-of-place shredding here, I just repeat the

second part of the intro

C	C/E	F	G

	G/C	C	G/C	C
Yeah, we’ll get	high	er an	d hi	gher

	Am	Em	Em7	F
Str	aight up	we’ll climb

G/C	C	G/C	Am
High	er an	d hi	gher

	Em	Em7	F
Leave it al	l behind

	G/C	C	G/C	C
Oh, we’ll get	high	er an	d high	er

	Fsus2	Fmaj7	Gsus4
Who k	nows	what we’ll fi	nd

	Cadd9	C	F
So baby	dry	your	eyes

	Am	G
Save a	ll the tears you’ve	cried

	Fsus2	Am7	Csus4	C	Csus2
Oh,	that’s what	dreams are m	ade	of

	Em7	F	Am	G
‘Cause	we be	long in a wo	rld that must be	strong

	Fsus2	Am7	Csus4	C	Csus2
Oh,	that’s what	dreams are m	ade o	f

Another crazy out-of-place shredding here, I just repeat the

second part of the intro

C	C/E	F	G

Slow

	Em7	F	Am	G
And	in the	end on	dreams we will de	pend

	Fsus2	Am7	Bb	F/A	C
‘Cause	that’s what	love is m	ade of