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The Impossible Dream (The Quest)
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Jack Jones
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Words and Music by Joe Darion and Mitch Leigh
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From the Broadway musical "Man Of La Mancha"
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(peak Billboard Adult Contemporary position # 35 in 1966)
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To dream the impossible dream
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To fight the unbeatable foe
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To bear with unbearable sorrow
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To run where the brave dare not go.
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To right the unrightable wrong
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To be better far than you are
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To try when your arms are too weary
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To reach the unreachable star
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This is my quest, to follow that star,
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No matter how hopeless, no matter how far
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To be willing to give when there's no more to give
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To be willing to die so that honor and justice may live
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And I know if I'll only be true to this glorious quest
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That my heart will lie peaceful and calm when I'm laid to my rest
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And the world will be better for this
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That one man scorned and covered with scars
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Still strove with his last ounce of courage
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To reach the unreachable star.
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Impossible Dream
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| Jack Jones |
