Love Was A Dream

Love was a dream
And like a dream it ended
Although I pretended
She loved me still.

Songs that we sang
Keep coming back to haunt me
I hear a distant echo
As though she's singing.

Was it a dream?
Or did I really hold her to me
And tell her things I'd kept to myself
Till she was there?

Early in May when ev'ry heart was open
The world was ours to conquer
And find together
When autumn came
Her love just withered away
And so did the life I tried to build.

Winter will pass and flow'rs will bloom again
But the void in my heart will not be filled
Too late I see her love was never for me
And I am fated to be alone forever
Love was a dream
But I shall never tell her
What I have suffer'd for her and for my loving
Never! Never! Never!

She must not know
And I'm happy it's so
Let the blows fall on me
But never on my darling.

I go thro' life as tho' I didn't exist
I am a ghost whom nothing can harm
I have no heart and feel no pain
But always the songs that we sang
Keep coming back to haunt me
I hear the distant echo, as tho' she's singing.