Music by Claude-Michel Scho:nberg

Original French lyrics by Alain Boublil

Original English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer



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There was a time with peaceful mind,

I had no crying host,

No evil motivation...

There was a time when we were blind,

But without enemies,

Without fear of starvation...

There was a time...

It all went wrong!



Seerow's dream and ours both came true

When we received his gifts without war,

And with the wonders we now knew

On our world, no one thought to take more.



He was no fool, he was just kind,

But I guess that's a crime in this world.

He saw our threat, he wasn't blind,

It's simply that he built on our word.



But the Gedd hosts came at night,

With my shredder fast as lightning...

As I tore his hope apart,

As I turned his dream to shame!



We met the Andalites once more,

And not just we say they were fright'ning...

I'd known some of them from before,

And I can see they're not the same.



And still they dream they'll conquer me,

That they can keep the Yeerks together,

But they are losing -- same as we!

I've stirred a storm no one can weather!



I'd had a dream of power, but

My dream came true no more than Seerow's,

My punishment I can't evade --

I'm dying in the war I've made.