The Summary of the Song "I Dream a Dream"

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§ I Dream a Dream (lyrics) §

There was a time when men 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
Then it all went wrong
There was a time

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
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
As they tear your hopes apart
As they turn your dreams to shame.

And still I dream he’ll come to me
And we will live our lives 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 seems
Now life has killed
The dream I dreamed.


The Summary of the Song "I Dream a Dream"

Summary:
This song is one of the theme song in the opera─"Les Miserable".
It's about a woman's soliloquy. She presented the happy memory she had ever had in the past, and expressed her sorrow, her depression, and her helplessness sincerely after the misery happened.

Situation: A world was so wonderful in the beginning. The people then had the happy life everyday.

Conflict: But some miserable things happened and broke their sweet dream.

Struggle: The people prayed sincerely that the God could listen to their voices and come to help them.

Outcome: Though the people hope it can recover like before, the world had been all changed. The dream they had ever dreamed was deeply killed.

Meaning: It’s really an inconsolable song that describes a changing process of one’s feeling from the happiest to the most sorrowful.