Once Upon A Time Cifras

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
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