[Intro]
We'd like to do a brand new song for you now
It's from a brand new Broadway musical called Les Misérables
And it's a very special song
I want to be the one to introduce it to you

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 that song was exciting
There was a time
It all went wrong

[Verse 1]
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

[Verse 2]
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
[Bridge]
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

[Verse 3]
She slept the 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

[Verse 4]
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 (Oh yeah)

[Verse 5]
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