It was the song you danced to at the end of the night, pressed close to the intriguing person you’d just met while wondering what might happen next. Above a relaxed, upStepping back up a semitone to A flat, the melody of the chorus is more expansive What is it about this melancholic but hopeful anthem of a song? There’s an element of Weltschmerz The accompanying video has Finn walking through a house in which other members of Crowded House are sitting around, sometimes playing their instruments.

The song was also fast becoming an anthem for Antipodeans overseas, the slightly maudlin counterpart to Men at Work’s novelty song Down Under. Even a version of the organ solo that separates the two halves returns at the end. As for 'Don't Dream It's Over' - it's a classic from Crowded House's first album.

When the organ solo comes, the windows of this house are suddenly arched and have stained glass.

Song DON T DREAM IT S OVER; Writers Neil Finn; Licensed to YouTube by AMRA, LatinAutor, Kobalt Music Publishing, LatinAutor - PeerMusic, UMPI, BMI - … There is, however, nothing of Lennon in the famous chorus.It was 1987 and Don’t Dream It’s Over, released in October the previous year, was a worldwide hit. The other half of the relationship seems to be having doubts. Don’t dream it’s over Hey now, hey now When the world comes in They come, they come To build a wall between us We know they won’t win.

The house is a weatherboard; we even see a slice of toast spread with Vegemite. But you turn right over to the T.V page. Hey now, Hey now Don't dream it's over Hey now, hey now When the world comes in They come, they come To build a wall between us We know they won't win. This is often the reason attributed to the melancholy sound that the song has. So why not go the whole hog? Hey now, hey now, what is it about this melancholic but hopeful song that makes it a universal anthem? from the album There is freedom withinHey now, Hey nowNow I'm towing my carHey now, Hey nowNow I'm walking againHey now, Hey nowDon't let them win In general, perhaps too much has been made of the Beatles–Crowded House connection, but it’s there for all to hear in Don’t Dream It’s Over, where the narrow melody of the verse, all stepwise intervals, might easily have been written by Lennon. It’s fitting in this hymn to home. But Don’t Dream It’s Over was a serious song for the weary (and possibly homesick) traveller or expat. Melodic lines come in twos, the second half of the song repeats the first. We learn that the world is coming to “build a wall” to separate them, and we’re reassured that it won’t succeed. We have an official Dont Dream Its Over tab made by UG professional guitarists. In Split Enz, however, New Zealand’s Finn brothers, Tim and Neil, embraced it wholeheartedly (this was long before 1990s Britpop, when everyone was at it), and the influence carried over to Neil’s Australian band, Crowded House.