Lyrics to
Once In A While

This version of Once In A While was released by Neil Diamond in 1977.

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Once in a while, I would call
Asking only to find you there

Once in a while, I would call
Asking only to know

And once you were mine long ago
When the evening was warm and free
Once you were mine
When the evening
Was full with that glow

And who could have known
We’d have flown far away
From the way we were
Knowing the way we were
Once in a while
Once in a while

And who could have known
We’d have flown far away
From the way we were
Knowing the way we were
Once in a while
Once in a while

And who could have known
We’d have flown like two birds
To another place
Only to find our space
Once in a while
Once in a while

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Neil Diamond has released many songs over the years besides Once In A While. Neil Diamond released songs from 1966 to 2005 spanning across albums like The Feel Of Neil, Velvet Gloves And Spit, Touching You, Touching Me, Sweet Caroline, Tap Root Manuscript, Stones, Do It, Moods, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Serenade, Beautiful Noise, I'm Glad You're Here With Me Tonight, You Don't Bring Me Flowers, September Morn, The Jazz Singer, On The Way To The Sky, Heartlight, Primitive, Headed For The Future, The Best Years Of Our Lives, Lovescape, The Christmas Album, Up On The Roof: Songs From The Brill Building, The Christmas Album Volume Two, In My Lifetime, Tennessee Moon, and 12 Songs. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Neil Diamond.

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The lyrics to Once In A While are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Neil Diamond in 1977. Elements of the lyrics to Once In A While are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Neil Diamond and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Once In A While back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Once In A While by Neil Diamond in a number of ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Once In A While" means the words set to the music of Once In A While, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Neil Diamond. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Once In A While and the lyrics to Once In A While are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Neil Diamond who came here looking just for the lyrics to Once In A While, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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