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Ricardo Treviño, Jr. (born May 16, 1971 in Houston, Texas), known professionally as Rick Trevino, is an American country music artist of Mexican American descent. Signed to Columbia Records in 1993, Trevino began his career that year with the release of his debut single, "Just Enough Rope", the first mainstream country music single to feature separate English and Spanish-language versions. The song was included on his debut album Dos Mundos; a self-titled album followed a year later. Trevino has charted a total of fourteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and recorded seven studio albums. His highest-charting single, "Running Out of Reasons to Run", spent one week at Number One in 1997.
Trevino is the son of Ricardo Trevino, Sr., a Tejano musician, and Linda Chavez. His music career began when he started taking piano lessons at the age of five. He plays rhythm guitar as well as keyboards.
Although he was offered a baseball scholarship to Memphis State University, Trevino chose instead to study music at Texas A&M University. While a student, he played his brand of country music in local clubs. In 1991, a representative of the Sony label was stranded in Austin due to flooding conditions and visited a small club where Trevino regularly played. Although Trevino was not performing that evening, the representative saw several articles on the walls which praised Trevino. Employees of the club gave him a tape of Trevino's music, which the label representative then passed onto music producer Steve Buckingham. Buckingham made a special trip to Austin just to hear Trevino perform and signed him immediately to Sony. Trevino left school to pursue his music career.
At the insistence of Columbia Records, his first album, Dos Mundos was an almost entirely Spanish country album. Trevino, who is not a native Spanish speaker and needed lessons before he could record the album, was displeased with the decision. "I didn't like that a bit because I didn't want people to think I was a Tejano artist...Everybody thinks I'm a Tejano singer crossing over to the country format." The album was certified gold. Seven months later, in 1994, Sony released his first English album, Rick Trevino. Rick Trevino was certified gold (selling over 500,000 copies) and featured two Number One hits, "She Can't Say I Didn't Cry" and "Doctor Time." His debut single, "Just Enough Rope" ("Bastante Cordón"), appeared in English on Rick Trevino and in Spanish on Dos Mundos, while a version of the song which combined the two languages was also released to radio. This became the first mainstream country single to be released in both English and Spanish. The album's third single, "She Can't Say I Didn't Cry", became Trevino's first chart-topper, spending one week at the top of the Gavin Report country singles charts.
The follow-up English album, Looking for the Light, was released in 1995 and included the top-ten hit "Bobbie Ann Mason." Trevino also recorded a Spanish version of the album, titled Un Rayo de Luz ("A Ray of Light").
In the late 1990s he joined an all-star group of Mexican-American singers, including members of Los Lobos, Freddy Fender, Ruben Ramos, and Flaco Jimenez, to create the supergoup Los Super Seven. The group won a Grammy in 1998 for Best Mexican-American Music Performance for their self-titled debut album.
Trevino's 1996 album Learning as You Go, produced his first and only Billboard Number One single in "Running Out of Reasons to Run". As with Looking for the Light, Learning As You Go also featured a separate Spanish-language version, titled Mi Vida Eres Tú ("My Life Is You").
Trevino asked to leave his contract with Sony in the hopes of moving in a different musical direction. Sony refused to release him from the contract, and Trevino cut a new album and released the single "Only Lonely Me" in 1998. Before the album could be released, Sony fired Trevino, and the album was shelved. Undaunted, Trevino continued to tour and released a Spanish-language album, Mi Son, that contained only ballads and had little hint of his country music roots. Without a new album or record deal, however, Trevino's touring schedule slowed, and most of his band quit.
During this time Trevino began collaborating with Raul Malo, former frontman of country band The Mavericks. The two had met while working on the second Los Super Seven album. Their collaborations helped bring Trevino to the attention of producer Paul Worley, who helped Trevino get a contract with Warner Brothers.
For his next album, In My Dreams, Trevino "wanted to do a country record that had a Latin flavor to it." He wrote or co-wrote every song on the album except for the final track, a cover of the Bryan Adams song "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" The title track, "In My Dreams" became a single and remained on the charts for twenty weeks, falling just shy of the Top 40 on the Billboard country charts (although it reached a peak of #34 on the Radio & Records country charts).

In My Dreams
Rick Trevino Lyrics

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I used to think I was the only one
Who never knew what it was like to fall
But you came along and changed all the rules that day
And just for a moment, I had it all

You are the dream I live with
You are the wish I made
The name I always whisper

In every prayer I prayed
Now that you left me
While you forget me, I'll hold you in my dreams

Now I go on here in my lonely world
And there's still a bridge I cannot cross
I can't let go, so please forgive me, girl
'Cause God only knows
All that I've lost

You are the dream I live with
You are the wish I made
The name I always whisper
In every prayer I prayed
Now that you left me
While you forget me, I'll hold you in my dreams

Now that you left me
While you forget me

You are the dream I live with
You are the wish I made
The name I always whisper
In every prayer I pray
Now that you left me

While you forget me, I'll hold you
I'll hold you in my dreams

Overall Meaning

The song "In My Dreams" by Rick Trevino is a powerful ballad about lost love and the lingering emotions that remain. The lyrics express the sense of heartbreak and yearning that come with a relationship's end, and the bitterness that comes with the idea that the other person has moved on. The first two lines of the song describe how the singer once thought he was the only one who had never fallen in love, but that all changed when he met someone who redefined everything he thought he knew.

The chorus of the song "In My Dreams" emphasizes the lasting impact of that lost love, serving as a reminder that the memories will always stay with the singer even as he tries to move on. It's apparent that he can't let go, as he pleads with the other person to forgive him and acknowledge how much he's lost since they broke up. The last lines of the song imply that the singer has accepted that the other person has moved on from the relationship, but he still holds on to the memory of love that they once had.

Overall, the song is a testament to the emotional depth and complexities of love and how challenging it is to let go when it ends. The lyrics convey a sense of emotional struggle and the battle to keep moving forward while remembering the past.

Line by Line Meaning

I used to think I was the only one
I believed for the longest time that I was the only person who has not experienced falling in love.

Who never knew what it was like to fall
I thought that I was incapable of experiencing the feeling of falling in love with someone.

But you came along and changed all the rules that day
However, you appeared in my life and completely changed my perspective about love and relationships.

And just for a moment I had it all
For a fleeting moment, I felt like I had everything I could possibly ask for when I was with you.

You are the dream I live with
You represent my biggest dream and aspiration in life.

You are the wish I made
I wished for someone like you to come into my life, and you did.

The name I always whisper
Your name is always at the top of my mind, and I always find myself whispering it whenever I think of you.

In every prayer I pray
Whenever I offer a prayer to God, I always include you in my wishes and hopes.

Now that you left me
Since you left me, my life seems incomplete, and I feel lost.

While you forget me, I'll hold you in my dreams
Even though you may have forgotten about me, I'll cherish the memories of you in my dreams.

Now I go on here in my lonely world
Now that you're gone, I feel like I'm living in a lonely world without anyone to share my thoughts and feelings with.

And there's still a bridge I cannot cross
There's still a part of my heart that I haven't been able to mend, and I'm unable to move past our relationship.

I can't let go so please forgive me girl
I'm unable to let go of the love and connection we shared, so I ask for your forgiveness.

Cause God only knows
I don't know what to do, and I'm leaving it up to fate and destiny to guide me.

All that I've lost
I lost everything that was important to me when you left, such as my peace of mind, happiness, and hope.

Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Songtrust Ave
Written by: Will Downing, B. Jackson, Peter Lord

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