Written by George Lynch and Jeff Pilson of Dokken, this is the theme song to the 1987 movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, the first in the franchise starring Patricia Arquette. The band was asked to write the song, which had to be titled "Dream Warriors," the name for the kids in the film who fight back against their nocturnal tormentor, Freddy Krueger. Fortunately, that's a song-friendly title (unlike "Ghostbusters"), and they were able to write a big chorus around it. The verse lyrics are more generic, dealing with sleep and torment. Outside the context of the film, it could be a song about a guy trying to get over a breakup.
The music video inhabits the same world as the film, with the band showing up in Patricia Arquette's dream to help her vanquish Freddy Krueger. The film hewed to the same demographic as MTV (teenagers), so they put the video in rotation, giving Dokken more airplay on the network.
This was released as a single to promote the film, but was not included on the soundtrack, which was just the film score ("Dream Warriors" was the only original song written for the movie). It was included on Dokken's fourth album, Back For The Attack, which was their peak. As Dokken got more successful, they also got at each other's throats, culminating in the 1988 Monsters Of Rock tour that hammered the last nail in their coffin. They didn't release another album until 1995, after a long split.
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