I dreamed a dream

Remember Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent (2009)? Part of what made it so affecting was that the judges and the audience seemed to discount her at first, but then she surprised them. Still affects me to see it.

The lyrics she sings from I Dreamed a Dream, the 1980 musical, Les Misérables ...

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.

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