From the Original Musical "Beauty and The Beast" by Tiger Williams (c) 1986
Story behind the song
"Just a Dream", sung by Beauty
Lyrics
Is this just a dream
Am I asleep
Awaiting liberation?
He was good to me
But now he's changed
into some hell spawned demon
He, who was so kind
Is this the real side I am seeing now
Oh I may lose my mind
before too long
Take me away from here
Won't someone listen to my plea
I am a captive here
Won't someone help me find the key
A prettier cage could not be found
this I know is true
but I would fall into the moat and drown
to free me from my rue
And where is the cavalier to break these
bonds that hold me tight
I cannot run from here as I have
tried to do tonight
Invisible shackles bind my arms and
chain me to this place
I run like the swiftest little deer
but my heart remains encased
and a wizard's spell
may poison me
a dream, a fall my fate to be
but I cannot live until my
heart is free
(chorus: Is this just a dream, mare of the night
shattering rhyme and reason
things not as they seem confuse the mind
turning the soul to treason
And I'll pound the walls
My hands will bleed
but no pain will 'ere deter this need
for I cannot live until my heart
is free...