Hopes and Dreams

Hopes and Dreams
Statistics
Track #	87
Time	3:01
Leitmotif(s)	Once Upon a Time, Your Best Friend, Dreams
Author	Toby "Radiation" Fox
Filename	mus_xpart
Location(s) Played	During the first phase of the fight with Asriel Dreemurr.
BPM	♩ = 180 (game files) ♩ = 170.667 (OST)
Key	B-flat major B major
Time Signature	4/4
Media
Audio
Music Guide
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Finally.
I was so tired of being a flower.
Howdy!
<Name>, are you there?
It's me, your best friend.

Asriel Dreemurr

Hopes and Dreams is the 87th track in the Undertale Soundtrack. In Undertale, it plays during Asriel Dreemurr's first phase at the end of the True Pacifist Route.

It is largely a fast-paced remix of Once Upon a Time, with a similarly fast-paced, hopeful-sounding remix of Your Best Friend at 1:30 and faintly at 1:18. The song is slowed down to 95% speed in-game and in the Undertale Soundtrack.

Trivia

• The original file version is slightly faster.
• At about 0:21 (when the song kicks into the beat), the visual effects of the battle cue in.
  • The visual effects do not disappear as the track restarts.
• The name of this song is alluded to on different occasions:
  • It debuted in Toby Fox's video "Undertale Release Date." In this video, the text "Releasing with Hopes and Dreams" displays while Final Power – a reversed version of Hopes and Dreams - plays in the background.
  • The phrase "hopes and dreams" is used by Undyne throughout all routes.
  • The name of this track is one of the choices for a question in Mettaton's quiz.
  • It is referenced in Deltarune's Legend of Delta Rune, and in its soundtrack as "Field of Hopes and Dreams."
• In the Undertale Soundtrack on Spotify, the song's name is displayed as "Hopes And Dreams" instead of the A being lowercase.
• Hopes and Dreams is inspired by the chiptune-based music of the American pop-rock band Anamanaguchi. The band would later release their own cover of the track on Youtube in 2022.
• Toby Fox has stated that Hopes and Dreams is personal to him. When he was asked if Hopes and Dreams could be sampled for a commercial, he offered to create a similar sounding song instead.
• Hopes and Dreams contains a background leitmotif of Doctor, a Homestuck song by George Buzinkai, at approximately 1:19. Toby Fox has previously written music for Homestuck using this leitmotif, including Savior of the Waking World and the never-released Penumbra Phantasm.