Wildest Dreams
Hidden message
He only saw her in his dreams
Encoded in the album’s liner notes.
“His hands are in my hair, his clothes are in my room”
The bedroom as the after-scene of the affair, the room his presence has quietly colonised. His clothes left across it mark the private interior as the place the romance actually happened, the room keeping the evidence of an intimacy the daylight will not acknowledge.
“He said, "Let's get out of this town Drive out of the city, away from the crowds”
Driving out of the city as the lovers' deliberate escape into fantasy; the drive marks the relationship as a departure from ordinary life.
“I thought heaven can't help me now”
Even heaven is given up as no use, the speaker sure the love is doomed however much she wants it.
“Red lips and rosy cheeks”
Red as the flush of desire in a cinematic farewell: red lips and rosy cheeks fix the image she wants remembered, the colour marking the affair at its most vivid.
“Say you'll remember me standing in a nice dress staring at the sunset, babe”
The nice dress as the image she asks to be remembered by, fixing the cinematic farewell pose, the garment standing in for how she wants the affair preserved.
wildest dreams within
“Wildest Dreams”
“In silent screams In wildest dreams I never dreamed of this” — This Love
This Love works the title of Wildest Dreams into a song on the same record. The distinctive two-word phrase turning up intact in a sister track reads as a quiet internal nod.