At the End of the Day/ I Dreamed a Dream

The time has come, my friends, my fellow Frenchmen. We must take back

Our dignity. Louis Philippe was not half the King Charles

The Tenth was. The blood that was spilt during the French

Revolution, was it all in vain? Did we fight in the streets

Of Paris centuries ago to yet again be considered slum dogs?

We are legitimists! We need to take back the throne! We

Need to take back our pride! We need to take back France!

We are starving! My kids are starving! We have no food!

The governments are poisoning our streets! A hundred

Thousand people dead already! We have no jobs! No

Clothing! No clean water! No more life! We have nothing!

At the end of the day you're another day older

And that's all you can say for the life of the poor

It's a struggle, it's a war

And there's nothing that anyone's given

All my days standing about, what is it for?

One day less to be living

At the end of the day you're another day colder

And the shirt on your back doesn't keep on your chin

And the righteous hurry past

They won't hear the little ones crying

And the winter is coming on fast, ready to kill

One day nearer to dying

At the end of the day there's another day dawning

And the sun in the morning is waiting to rise

Like the waves crash on the sand

Like a storm that'll break any second

There's a hunger in the land (There's a hunger)

There's a rage that'll soon be beckoned

It's us who'll have to pay

At the end of the day

I dreamed a dream as time's gone by

When life was all, 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

And they turn your dreams to shame

And still I dream she'll come to me

That we could live the years together

But there are dreams that cannot be

There are dreams we cannot weather

(I had a dream what life could be)

I had a dream what life could be

(So different from this hell I'm living)

So different from this hell I'm living

So different now from what it seemed

No, life has killed the dream I dreamed