Once Upon A Time by Darren Criss
Premiered at 2013 Listen Up! Summer Tour
Capo 1 for Original Key
VERSE
C Dm
'The End' never seemed like it was good enough
F C
Two little words seemed too small
C Dm
I turned the page to find a blank one
F C
As if the ones before never really happened at all
PRE-CHORUS
Am Em
But what about the love, what about the old obsessions
F G E
We fell into when they were new
Am Em
What about the late at night heartfelt confessions
F
The things we tried, the tears we cried
G
Well they seem to hide away
CHORUS
C
I've got one more part for the story book
F
One more road that I should've took
Am G C
One more thing that used to hide my heart
C
I've got one more place in my memory
F
Where I wish with every part of me
Am G C
I could go back, go back to the start
Am F
I know it's too far down and much too high to climb
Am
But why can't we bring it all back
G
To once upon a time
VERSE
C Dm
Here we are, standing at the finish line
F C
And I swear, it's like we came a million miles
C Dm F
And if I take one more step, I will forget the rivers we crossed
C
Our happy ending will be lost if we say goodbye
PRE-CHORUS
Am Em
But what about the way our fable wasn't fiction
F G E
It was real to you, it was real to me
Am Em
So maybe our love was a lovely contradiction
Dm
We were never sure of what we were
F G
But we knew we could never be
CHORUS
C
And now I got one more part for the story book
F
One more road that I should've took
Am G C
One more thing that used to hide my heart
C
I've got one more place in my memory
F
Where I wish with every part of me
Am G C
I could go back, go back to the start
Am F
I know it's too far down and much too high to climb
Am
But why can't we bring it all back
G
To once upon a time
SOLO
C F Am-G C
PRE-CHORUS
Am Em
But what about the way our fable wasn't fiction
F G E
It was real to you, it was real to me
Am Em
So what about the ups and downs and all the lessons
F
The things we learned, the stones we turned
G
Well that bridge has burned away
And now it's just...
C
One more part for the story book
F
One more road that I should've took
Am G C
One more thing that used to hide my heart
Am F
Yeah I know it's too far down and much too high to climb
Am
Oh, I just wish we could bring it all back
G C
To that once upon a time
Na na na...
C F Am-G C (same chords as chorus)
OUTRO
C F
Back to the start, back to your heart
Am G C
To that once upon a time
C F
Back to the start, back to your heart
Am G C
To that once upon a time
Am F
I know it's too far down and much too high to climb
Am
Oh, I just wish we could bring it all back
G C
To that once upon a time