There was a time when girls were kind When 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 It all went wrong
I dreamed a dream of 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
When 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 And they tear your hope apart As they turn your dream to shame....
She slept this summer by my side She filled my days with endless wonder She took my childhood in her stride But she was gone when autumn came
And still I dream she'll come to me That we will spend 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 But life can't kill The dream I dreamed I dreamed I dreamed...
