Released: January 31, 1989

Songwriter: Richard Kerr Will Jennings

Producer: Barbara Orbison Mike W. Campbell Roy Orbison

In dreams we do so many things
We set aside the rules we know
And fly the world so high
In great and shining rings

If only we could always live in dreams
If only we could make of life
What, in dreams, it seems

But in the real world
We must say real goodbyes
No matter if the love will live
It will never die

In the real world
There are things that we can't change
And endings come to us
In ways that we can't rearrange

I love you, and you love me
But sometimes we must let it be
In the real world
In the real world

When we were dreaming heart to heart
I wish that we had stayed right there
For when the dreamers do awake
The dreams do disappear

If only we could always live in dreams
If only we could make of life
What, in dreams, it seems

But in the real world
We must say real goodbyes
No matter if the love will live
It will never die

In the real world
There are things that we can't change
And endings come to us
In ways that we can't rearrange

I love you, and you love me
But sometimes we must let it be
In the real world
In the real world

Roy Orbison

Roy Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer-songwriter. Nicknamed “The Big O”, his best-known songs include “Oh, Pretty Woman”, “You Got It”, “Crying” and “In Dreams”.

First rising to fame in the late 1950s, he became one of the biggest artists of the 1960s, producing 22 U.S. top 40 singles. He then went over two decades without any commercial success, before seeing a surprise career revival in the late 1980s when he was invited to be part of The Travelling Wilburys, a supergroup with Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty and George Harrison.

Off the back of the Wilburys' success, Orbison recorded his comeback album, Mystery Girl, but he would unfortunately never live to see his revived popularity as he died before the album’s release.