I dreamed a dream A WONDERFULL SONG

Susan Boyle has just immortalized anew one of Les Miserables‘ song called “I Dream A Dream” when she sang it on a talent show called “Britain’s Got Talent” and wowed the audience and judges alike against their earlier skepticism. Just a brief trivia about the song, it was sung in the Broadway Musical Les Miserables by the Character Fantine in Act I. The lyrics are about lost innocence and broken dreams. Fantine is abandoned by her lover, gives birth to a daughter, Cosette, out of wedlock, is wrongly dismissed from a desperately-needed job, and forced into prostitution to survive and to support her daughter. It is sung directly after “At the End of the Day“. The 1980 french version of the song is called “J’avais rêvé d’une autre vie” (I Dreamed of Another Life) while in the 1991 revival, it was called “J’avais rêvé” (I Dreamed). Three of my readers has been asking me to upload the MP3 file of the actual live performance of the song, so here it is for all of your heart’s content. Be Inspired because anyone can dream. Like St. Augustine’s famous quote, I dare paraphrase in reference to Susan Boyle’s amazing determination “Late I have Dreamed Thee!”.

There was a time when men were kind,
And 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.
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,
With their voices soft as thunder,
As they tear your hope apart,
And 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 his stride,
But he was gone when autumn came!
And still I dream he’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’m living,
So different now from what it seemed…
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed…