I Dream a Dream

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.

And still

I dream he'll 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.