Les Miserables: I Dreamed a Dream Lyrics

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 when 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
When I was young and unafraid

And dreams were made and used and wasted,
There was no ransom to be paid,
No sum and sigh 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 a stride,
But he was gone when autumn came
And still I dream he'll come to me,
That we would live the years 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 seems
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed