Uploaded May 2012 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Sara Bareilles's official audio for 'Once Upon Another Time'. Click to listen to Sara Bareilles on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/SaraBareillesSpotify?IQid=SaraBOUAT

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More from Sara Bareilles
Love Song: youtu.be/qi7Yh16dA0w
Brave: youtu.be/QUQsqBqxoR4
Gonna Get over You: youtu.be/OUe3oVlxLSA

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Lyrics:

Once upon another time
Somebody's hands who felt like mine
Turned the key and took a drive
Was free
Highway curve, the sun sank low
Buckley on the radio
Cigarette was burning slow
So breathe

Just yellow lines and tire marks
And sun-kissed skin and handle bars
And where I stood was where I was to be

No enemies to call my own
No porch light on to pull me home
And where I was is beautiful
Because I was free

Once upon another time
Before I knew which life was mine
Before I left the child behind me
I saw myself in summer nights
And stars lit up like candle light
I make my wish but mostly I believed...

In yellow lines and tire marks
Sun-kissed skin and handle bars
And where I stood was where I was to be

Once upon another time
Decided nothing good in dying
So I would just keep on driving
Because I was free