"Daydream Believer" lyrics

[Mark Spahn]

"Daydream Believer" is one of those songs that I have always consumed
merely as a tune, in which the words serve only as placeholders for the
melody.  But now and then I avail myself of Algore's wonderful invention
to look up the lyrics of songs to try and figure out what they are
about.  Here is a version that contains both the music and the word of a
song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_SMJ-Uwmkg

Oh I could hide 'neath the wings / of the bluebird as she sings / the
six o'clock alarm would never ring

[Notice that "bluebird" and "alarm" are pronounced R-lessly, with a
British accent; I thought the Monkees were an American group.]

But it rings and I rise, / wipe the sleep out of my eyes, / my shaving
razor's cold and it stings

[Hmmm, why should a razor sting even if cold?  Only the very edge of the
razor blade should touch your cheeks, and that's not enough
steel-to-skin contact area to lose any heat.  I think you're holding the
razor blade at too-flat an angle.]

Chorus:

Cheer up, Sleepy Jean / Oh what can it mean / to a daydream believer and
a homecoming queen?

[Ah, it's "cheer up", not "clear up".  I thought poor Jean was suffering
not only from drowsiness but from teenage acne.  What can *what* mean? 
Does Jean believe that daydreams are real?  And is she a homecoming
queen?  Or is the (male) *singer* a homecoming queen?  That sounds kind
of gay.  I don't know exactly what a homecoming is, never having
experienced one.  Here, thanks to Algore, is an explanation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homecoming   ]

You once thought of me / as a white knight on his steed / now you how
happy I can be

[Rhyming "steed" with "me" and "be" is lazy versifying.  Who wrote this
crap?  Somebody named "John Stewart", say the notes to this video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stewart_(musician)     ]

Oh and our good times start and end / without Dollar One to spend / But
how much, baby, do we really need?

[Note how wrong the YouTube transcription is.]

Having seen the lyrics, I understand this song no more now than I did
before.

-- Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY)

[Matthew Schlecht]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 5:30 AM Mark Spahn <mark...@twc.com> wrote:

"Daydream Believer" is one of those songs that I have always consumed
merely as a tune, in which the words serve only as placeholders for the
melody.  But now and then I avail myself of Algore's wonderful invention
to look up the lyrics of songs to try and figure out what they are
about.  Here is a version that contains both the music and the word of a
song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_SMJ-Uwmkg

Oh I could hide 'neath the wings / of the bluebird as she sings / the
six o'clock alarm would never ring

[Notice that "bluebird" and "alarm" are pronounced R-lessly, with a
British accent; I thought the Monkees were an American group.]

One of the singers was the late Davy Jones, a Brit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Jones_(musician)

Matthew