TATE SEDAR’s “Dream” (ft. Otto Palmborg) lyrics are about the deep emotional sense of the almost mystical kind of love—one so unreal, yet so real you can’t let it go. The song is all about the powerful moment when love enters a world that is broken or lost and brings it to a place of hope and magic.

SEDAR sets the stage for void and confusion from the onset. He sets a state of personal crisis, as if he is on the move without direction or purpose. Thus is set the stage for the impact of love when it does arrive. The transition is sudden and dramatic—everything is different when love enters the scene. The lyrics suggest that this union brings purpose, as if all the other things now make sense. There is a sense that everything is destiny or a long-sought dream.

There is a contrast between past pain and present bliss in the song. SEDAR is not glossing over the pain he’s experienced in the past, however. He is straightforward about the number of times love had not worked for him. How he is so open about it makes the lyrics and the impact of the arrival of this “dream-like” love even deeper. It is not a mere relationship—it is a redemptive one, a love so ethereal because of the past.

The constant theme of dreams is at the heart of the way SEDAR expresses such love. Instead of attempting to confront realities of the actual world, the lyrics accept the reality that certain feelings are so overwhelming that they’re almost mythical. Putting one’s hand in another’s is no longer a tactile action—it’s a metaphor for not wanting to wake up, not wanting to abandon the sensation. The dream, then, is a place in which anything can happen, a place in which love is unadulterated and limitless and secure.

The chorus is also marked by simplicity of feeling. SEDAR reaffirms his need to be in the dream if this person is indeed the one made for him. It is a statement of vulnerability of tenderness and a desire not to ask something beautiful too much, but simply to hold onto it. There is a naivete of hope in the assumption that if a person was “made for me,’ then simply existing in this perfect dream will be enough. The repetition also speaks of the way in which he must believe in this love, even when it is not necessarily so.

The words also speak of destiny and déjà vu, ideas which make the love seem predestined or familiar. SEDAR is essentially saying that even though he can’t pinpoint it, it’s something in the grand design. It might be a dream, a flashback, or a communication from the universe—but no matter, it’s something to hold onto. What is so effective about the lyrics is the way that the gap between reality and fantasy is bridged. They speak to every individual who’s ever hoped that love is as in the movies for them. TATE SEDAR turns a cliché romantic belief and renders it lovely and something we can all relate to, reminding us that magic is out there even amidst a breakup.