
I Dreamed A Dream
Words & Music by Alain
Boublil, Claude-Michel
(Les Miserables - 1980)
As
performed by Elaine Paige and Susan Boyle
(There was a time when men were kind
When
their voices were soft
And their words inviting
There was a time when love
was blind
And the world was a song
And the song was exciting
There was
a time
Then it all went wrong)
I dreamed a dream in time gone
by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would
never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and
unafraid
When dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to
be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted
But the tigers come at
night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
As
they turn your dream to shame
(He slept a summer by my side
He filled
my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was
gone when Autumn came)
And still I dream he'd come to me
That we will
live our life together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are
storms we cannot weather
I had a dream my life would be
So different
from this Hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life
has killed the dream I dreamed.