I dreamed a dream
by Claude-Michel Schönberg
Les Miserables
From the original Les Miserables notes.
INTRO:
VERSE 1:
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.
VERSE 2:
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.
BRIDGE:
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.
VERSE 3:
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.
VERSE 4:
G/f#
And still I dreamed he'd come to me,
that we would live the years together
G/f#
but there are dreams that cannot be
and there are storms we cannot weather.
ENDING:
G/f#
I had a dream my life would be
so different from this hell I'm living,
G/f#
so different now from what it seemed
G/f#
now life has killed the dream I dreamed.