Music Monday: Gary Wright and “Dream Weaver” from 1972
Posted By RichC on June 30, 2025
Of course it would end up being a Music Monday repeat from several years ago, but since I’ve already snipped the ani-gif from SiriusXM’s The Bridge, I’ll continue on as an audio instead of the 1972 video.
The album by Gary Wright (1943-1923), The Dream Weaver was released in 1975 and included the single Dream Weaver which became a hit in 1976. It is surprising to me (if correct?) that he was performing the song 
in 1972 but that it took an album and 4 years before it became a hit. I still remember it well.
Interesting an lesser known tidbit: While in England, Gary Wright played keyboards on former Beatle George Harrison‘s triple album All Things Must Pass (1970) —mentioned earlier this year on Music Monday — and so began a friendship that inspired the Indian religious themes and spirituality inherent in Wright’s subsequent songwriting like, “Dream Weaver” references (not drugs as some have suspected).
Gary Wright – “Dream Weaver” | 1975
Dream Weaver | Gary Wright
I’ve just closed my eyes again
Climbed aboard the dream weaver train
Driver, take away my worries of today
And leave tomorrow behindOoh, dream weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
Ooh, dream weaver
I believe we can reach the morning lightFly me high through the starry skies
Maybe to an astral plane
Cross the highways of fantasy
Help me to forget today’s painOoh, dream weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
Ooh, dream weaver
I believe we can reach the morning lightThough the dawn may be coming soon
There still may be some time
Fly me away to the bright side of the moon
And meet me on the other sideOoh, dream weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
Ooh, dream weaver
I believe we can reach the morning lightDream weaver Dream weaver
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