Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by Eurythmics
Song Meaning Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart wrote the song shorty after the break up of the previous band they were in called The Tourists. Lennox says the lyrics are about the sad time after the band broke up when she felt they were "in a dream world" and the dreams they had been chasing were never going to happen. She described the meaning of the song as "Look at the state of us. How can it get worse?" and she went on to explain "I was feeling very vulnerable. The song was an expression of how I felt: hopeless and nihilistic." However, Stewart felt the lyrics were too depressing and added the line "hold your head up, moving on" to give the song some feeling of hope. Lennox commented that the lines "Some of them want to use you … some of them want to be abused" are interpreted to be "about sex or S&M, and it’s not about that at all."