Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Harry Belafonte
Canonical path: /harry-belafonte/once-was
Related lyric paths: 6
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Once Was
Read Once Was lyrics by Harry Belafonte on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Once Was
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Once was a woman
Once was a dream
Once lived in heaven it seemed
Wondering oh wondering I lost it
Gone is the feeling I had
Gone is the woman and gone is the dream
Gone is the heaven that seemed
Gone is the other
Gone is the touch
Gone is the rapture of all
Wondering o wondering I lost it
All that once burned is now cold
Gone are the ones who deserved it
Gone is the story once told
Gone is the feeling
Gone is the time
Time of a rapture sublime
Wondering o wondering I lost it
How to recapture the time
Gone is the love and the place now
Gone are the things I believed
Gone is the love and the place now
Gone are the things I believed
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Harry Belafonte performs "Once Was", and this lyric page sits inside the Harry Belafonte catalog on LyroVerse.
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