Los Miserables – I Dreamed a Dream

Empieza la semana de las bandas sonoras porque estas Navidades me he hinchado a ver películas y unas cuantas canciones caerán fruto de esos visionados.

Y qué mejor que empezar con un clasicazo como es esta canción de Los Miserables, que ha saltado del teatro al cine. Escuchar esta melodía (o mejor dicho, «lamento optimista» ;-)) te pone ya los pelos como escarpias. A mí, la última estrofa con ese giro de agonía me hace cantar a gritos.

Como ha habido tantas y tantas interpretaciones, se me hace difícil quedarme con una. La versión cinematográfica en la garganta de Anne Hathaway es correcta, pero no la mejor. Probablemente la más conocida sea la de Susan Boyle en su sorprendente participación en el programa Britain’s Got Talent donde demostró a todo el mundo que juzgar por las apariencias es un grave error. Incluso Aretha Franklin tiene su versión.

Pero yo me quedo con la de Ruthie Henshall, que estuvo en Londres interpretando a Fantine, una madre coraje que hará cualquier cosa para conseguir sustento para su hija Cosette. ¿Cuál es vuestra cover favorita?

Letra:

There was a time, when men were kind
When their voices were soft
And their words were 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 days 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
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