Tell Me I Was Dreaming

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"Tell Me I Was Dreaming"
Single by Travis Tritt
from the album Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof
ReleasedApril 3, 1995
Recorded1994
Genre Country
Length
  • 6:28 (album version)
  • 4:53 (single version)
  • 3:46 (radio single version)
Label Warner Bros. Nashville
Songwriter(s) Travis Tritt, Bruce Ray Brown
Producer(s) Gregg Brown
Travis Tritt singles chronology
"Between an Old Memory and Me"
(1995)		"Tell Me I Was Dreaming"
(1995)		"Sometimes She Forgets"
(1995)

"Tell Me I Was Dreaming" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Travis Tritt. It was released in April 1995 as the fourth and final single from his album Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof . It peaked at number 2 in the United States, and number 3 in Canada. The song was written by Tritt and Bruce Ray Brown.

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Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that the "big ballad combines an impassioned vocal performance with Gregg Brown's nifty production touches." She goes on to call the song "country through and through." [1]

Music video

The song's major success was largely driven by the controversial and tragic music video, which was directed by Michael Merriman and premiered in early 1995. It was filmed in Austin, Texas, and is the second video in Travis Tritt's trilogy of videos that tell the story of Mac Singleton, a paraplegic U.S. Army veteran; the first video being the chart-topping "Anymore" (1991), and the third one being the Top 30 "If I Lost You" (1998).

In the second video, Mac and his wife Annie reside in a lakefront community where they, along with Al (a fellow disabled veteran who Mac befriended while they were both patients at a military clinic several years earlier), own and operate a marina and boatyard business.

Al was previously confined to a wheelchair (due to his own war-related injury) when he and Mac first met, but had undergone physical therapy in the ensuing years to regain use of his legs — with the aid of a cane, he is able to walk again by this point.

Meanwhile, Annie is pregnant with hers and Mac’s first child. One day at work, while she is washing one of the boats in the yard, Annie loses her balance after she steps up on the ledge of the boat to grab a pail of soap; she screams for help before she slips and falls into the water striking her head violently onto the dock, causing her to bleed. Mac witnesses this and frantically rushes to Annie’s side in a desperate attempt to save her, but his paralysis limits him from giving proper assistance. Al overhears the commotion from inside his office, prompting him to rush over to help.

The two men quickly pull Annie out of the water and transport her to the nearest hospital where a team of doctors attempt to revive her. As a precaution, the same medical team also performs a cesarean section procedure so as to deliver Annie’s unborn child safely opposite from the emergency resuscitation.

The C-section procedure is successful — a healthy baby girl is born — but Annie soon dies from severe head trauma after flatlining. When Mac is informed of his newborn daughter, he asks the surgeon about Annie’s condition, and is grief stricken to learn that she did not survive.

To cope with the loss of his wife, Mac decides to name his daughter after Annie in honor of her memory, and he discreetly enlists Al as her co-guardian.

Chart positions

"Tell Me I Was Dreaming" debuted at number 73 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of April 15, 1995.

Chart (1995)Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [2] 3
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [3] 2

Year-end charts

Chart (1995)Position
Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) [4] 36
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [5] 14

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References

  1. ↑ Billboard , April 8, 1995
  2. ↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 9028." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. July 3, 1995. Retrieved July 21, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Travis Tritt Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  4. ↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1995". RPM . December 18, 1995. Retrieved July 21, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Best of 1995: Country Songs". Billboard . Prometheus Global Media. 1995. Retrieved July 21, 2013.
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