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
And 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
(But the tigers come at night)
With their voices soft
As thunder
As they tear your hope apart
(As they tear your hope apart)
As they turn your dream
To shame
And still I dream
She'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 seemed
Now life has killed the dream
I dreamed