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 / Dsus7 but he was gone when autumn came. VERSE 4: And still I dreamed he'd come to me, that we would live the years together but there are dreams that cannot be and there are storms we cannot weather. ENDING: 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.