I Dreamed a Dream in Times 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

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

And still I dream they'll come to me

that we will 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 live in

so different now from what it seemed

Our life has killed the dream

I Dreamed