A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're fast asleep
In dreams you lose your heartaches
Whatever you wish for, you keep
Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling through
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
The dream that you wish will come true
[clock:] dong
[Cinderella:] Oh that clock
[c:] dong
[Cinderella:] oh, kill joy
[c:] dong
[Cinderella:] I hear you
Come on, Get up you say
[c:] dong
[Cinderella:] time to start another day
[c:] dong
[Cinderella:] even he orders me around
[c:] dong
[Cinderella:] well, there's one thing
They cant order me to stop dreaming
And perhaps someday....
[singing:] The dreams that I wish will come true
(Ad-lib section!)
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
The dream that you wish will come true
When you're fast asleep
In dreams you lose your heartaches
Whatever you wish for, you keep
Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling through
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
The dream that you wish will come true
[clock:] dong
[Cinderella:] Oh that clock
[c:] dong
[Cinderella:] oh, kill joy
[c:] dong
[Cinderella:] I hear you
Come on, Get up you say
[c:] dong
[Cinderella:] time to start another day
[c:] dong
[Cinderella:] even he orders me around
[c:] dong
[Cinderella:] well, there's one thing
They cant order me to stop dreaming
And perhaps someday....
[singing:] The dreams that I wish will come true
(Ad-lib section!)
No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
The dream that you wish will come true
song info:
Verified yes
LanguageEnglish
GenreMusical
Rank−
Duration
Charts
Copyright ©Walt Disney Music Company
WriterMack David, Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston, David Pack
Lyrics licensed byLyricFind
AddedSeptember 24th, 2017
Last updatedMarch 6th, 2022
About"A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" is a song written and composed by Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston for the Walt Disney film Cinderella (1950). In the song Cinderella (as sung by Ilene Woods) encourages her animal friends to never stop dreaming, and that theme continues throughout the entire story. The theme of the song was taken from Franz Liszt's Etude No. 9 Ricordanza of the Transcendental Etudes. This song was also performed by Lily James for the soundtrack of the live-action version of Cinderella in 2015.
Thematically, the lyrics recall the sentiments expressed in "When You Wish upon a Star" from Pinocchio (1940). In equating a dream with a wish, the song establishes that Cinderella is using the word "dream" in the metaphorical sense of desires that can, as the lyric promises, "come true." "When You Wish Upon A Star" makes this same promise, as does other Disney material, such as the fireworks show Remember... Dreams Come True and related promotions. The literal meaning of the word, as something that happens "when you're fast asleep", reappears in another Disney song, "Once Upon a Dream" from Sleeping Beauty (1959).
Former Mouseketeer Annette Funicello's 1994 autobiography is named after this song from Cinderella. The full title of the book, which was co-written by Patricia Romanowski, is A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes: My Story (ISBN 0-7868-8092-9). An abridged version of the book on audio cassette was released the same year. A made-for-TV movie based on the book, A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story, was made in 1995.
In The Full House Episode The House Meets The Mouse part 2, At the end of the episode, Jesse & his band sing A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes.
Thematically, the lyrics recall the sentiments expressed in "When You Wish upon a Star" from Pinocchio (1940). In equating a dream with a wish, the song establishes that Cinderella is using the word "dream" in the metaphorical sense of desires that can, as the lyric promises, "come true." "When You Wish Upon A Star" makes this same promise, as does other Disney material, such as the fireworks show Remember... Dreams Come True and related promotions. The literal meaning of the word, as something that happens "when you're fast asleep", reappears in another Disney song, "Once Upon a Dream" from Sleeping Beauty (1959).
Former Mouseketeer Annette Funicello's 1994 autobiography is named after this song from Cinderella. The full title of the book, which was co-written by Patricia Romanowski, is A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes: My Story (ISBN 0-7868-8092-9). An abridged version of the book on audio cassette was released the same year. A made-for-TV movie based on the book, A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story, was made in 1995.
In The Full House Episode The House Meets The Mouse part 2, At the end of the episode, Jesse & his band sing A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes.
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