I dream a dream

最近有一首歌突然又紅了起來，因為不久前英國有個47歲的歐巴桑靠它贏得了評審及觀眾的心。

她所演唱的曲目是音樂劇「悲慘世界」裡的「I deream a dream」。在聆聽她的歌聲之前，還是讓我們先來複習一下該歌曲的音樂會版本吧！



歌詞：

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

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 hope apart
As they turn your dream to shame

He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came

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.

剛剛說的那位歐巴桑，名叫 Susan Boyle，她是在英國電視節目 Britains Got Talent 裡唱「I dream a dream」。按照其在電視裡的說法，她個人的夢想是成為一位職業歌手，祇不過一直沒有機會而已。至於她的實力如何呢？由於YouTube裡的影音檔不准讓人外嵌入部落格，所以請各位自己連線去聽聽看吧！

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

Susan Boyle一炮而紅之後，有人挖出她在1999年為一張慈善義賣CD唱過的一首歌「Cry Me A River」。於是，又有人把該曲的錄音檔放在YouTube上。她這首歌倒是可以直接在此欣賞。相信各位聽了之後，應該都會肯定她的唱功確實不差。

據悉，那張CD只有印製一千份，而她亦僅只有演唱其中的一首歌曲而已。所以，她說之前沒有機會實現夢想，應當屬實。



P.S.: 我已經開始在想像，哪天或許能看到以前合唱團的朋友突然也跑去參加這種節目說......