Lyrics to
Once Upon A Time

This version of Once Upon A Time was released by Donna Summer in 1977.

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Once upon a time…

Once upon a time
There was a girl
Who lived in the land
Of dreams unreal
Hiding from reality,
Treated like a stranger
Living in her fantasies,
Trapped within their world

Once upon a time
Her hopes had died
No one there to hear
Her futile cries
Living in a house of stone,
No one on her side
Family in name alone,
No place left to hide

Aaahhh…..

Once upon a time…

Once upon a dream
A man will come
And give her everything
She wants and loves
But in the morning
She’ll awake
To face the room around her
It’s just another lonely day,
And bitterness surrounds her
Bitterness surrounds her

Aaaahhhh…

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About Lyrics and Once Upon A Time by Donna Summer

When you decide to study the lyrics to Once Upon A Time, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Donna Summer. Some of the lyrics to Once Upon A Time have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Donna Summer and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Once Upon A Time if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 Upon A Time" means the words set to the music of Once Upon A Time, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Donna Summer. 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 Upon A Time and the lyrics to Once Upon A Time are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Donna Summer who came here looking just for the lyrics to Once Upon A Time, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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