(Nice Dream)
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"(Nice Dream)" is a song on the 1995 album The Bends by alternative rock band Radiohead.
This song from the band revels in a happy-life fantasy, but concludes that it can be nothing more than a "nice dream." Heard at the end of the track are selections from an Arctic-sounds tape of Bends producer John Leckie's. The demo version, available on the compilation Volume 13, is mainly an acoustic number featuring organ and strings, and contains different lyrics, including "I'm your sweet man, dipped in chocolate."
Singer-songwriter Thom Yorke: "We all debuted playing acoustic guitar on this in a sort of cosmic Kumbaya outside the studio. There's this awful photograph of us all sitting on a lawn with headphones on. The lyrics came out of a half-drunk dream I had, one of those where you don't really sleep properly. It's about our relationship with people generally."
The song has also been seen to contain references to Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle.
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