LyricMeaning

Once I Was
Jeff Buckley

(Tim Buckley tribute at St. Ann's church)

A long time ago, when I was a little kid, my mom sat on the bed and put this record on and..it's like the first song I ever heard..that had my father's voice..and I must admit it...I was..six...and I was bored...I was bored, I'm sorry...(....)

Once I was a soldier

And I fought on foreign sands for you

Once I was a hunter

And I brought home fresh meat for you

Once I was a lover

And I searched behind your eyes for you

And soon there'll come another

To tell you I was just a lie

Sometimes I wonder

For a while

Do you ever remember me?

Oh..

Though you have forgotten

All of our rubbish dreams

I find myself searching

Through the ashes of our ruins

For the days when we smiled

And the hours that ran wild

And the magic of our eyes

And the silence of our words

Sometimes I wonder

For a while

Do you ever remember me?


  Purchase "Once I Was"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "Once I Was" Video   Play Spotify "Once I Was" Song   View Wikipedia "Once I Was" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Jeff Buckley Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "Once I Was"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Jeff Buckley

  Alive   All Flowers In Time   All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun   All Tomorrows Parties   Alligator Wine   Angel Mine   Auld Lang Syne   Back In N.y.c.   Be My Husband   Be My Husband (Live)   Be Your Husband   Bluebird Blues   Calling You   Calling You By Jevetta Steele   Catnip Dream   Chocolate / Kangaroo Garage 94 Version   Corpus Christi Carol   Cruel   Curtains   Dancing In The Moonlight   Demon John   Despite The Tears   Dido's Lament   Dink's Song   Dink's Song (Fare Thee Well)   Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin   Dream Brother   Dream Brother (Live From The Bataclan)   Dream Brother (Ltd Edition Mix)   Dream Brother [Alternate Take]   Dream of You and I   Drown In My Own Tears (Live)   Edna Frau   Eternal Life   Eternal Life (Live)   Everybody Here Wants You   Everybody Here Wants You [Album Version]   Everyday People   Faith Salons   Fall In Light   Farewell Angelina   Flutter Girl   Forget Her   Forget Her [*]   Good Morning Little Schoolgirl   Grace   Grace (Live At Palais Theatre)   Grace [MTV, 120 Minutes, New York]   Gunshot Glitter   Hallelujah   Hallelujah - I Know It's Over   Hallelujah (live At Palais Theatre)   Hallelujah (Live From The Bataclan)   Hallelujah [Album Version]   Hallelujah / I Know It's Over (medley)   Halleluyah   Harem Man   Harem Man (Gods & Monsters)   Haven't You Heard   Haven't You Heard?   Hymne A L'amour   I Against I   I Know It's Over   I Know It's Over [The Smiths Cover]   I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted to ...   I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted To)   I Know We Could Be So Happy, Baby   I Know We Could Be So Happy, Baby (if We Wanted To...   I Loves You Porgy   I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain   I Shall Be Released   I Want Someone Badly   I Woke up in a Strange Place   If You Knew   If You Knew (Live)   If You See Her, Say Hello   In The Cantina   Je N'en Connais Pas La Fin   Je N'en Connais Pas La Fin (Live)   Jewel Box   Jolly Street   Jolly Street (w/Jazz Passengers)   Just Like a Woman   Kanga Roo   Kanga-Roo   Kangaroo   Kashmir   Kick Out The Jams   Killing Time   Last Goodbye   Let Time Stand Still/Killing Time   Let's Bomb The Moonlight   Lilac Wine   Lilac Wine [MTV Europe, Eurockéennes Festival, ...   Lost Highway   Lover, You Should Have Come Over   Lover, You Should've Come Over   Madame George   Malign Fiesta (No Soul)   Mama, You Been On My Mind   Mama, You've Been on My Mind   Medley Piaf   Medley Piaf: Je N'en Connais Pas La Fin / Hymne A'...   Medley: Hallelujah / Last Month Of The Year   Medley: Hallelujah / Last Month Of The Year (Live ...   Medley: Hallelujah \/ Last Month Of The Year (live...   Medley: Je N'en Connais Pas La Fin / Hymne A L'amo...   Medley: Je n'En Connais Pas La Fin \/ Hymne a l'am...   Mojo Pin   Mojo Pin (Live At Palais Theatre)   Mojo Pin (Live)   Mojo Pin [Live aus dem Südbahnhof, Frankfurt]   Mojo Pin [Live aus dem Südbahnhof, Frankfurt]   Mood Swing Whiskey   Moodswing Whiskey   Morning Theft   Murder Suicide Meteor Slave   New Year's Eve Prayer   New Year's Prayer   Night Flight   Night Flight (Live)   Night Flight [Led Zeppelin Cover]   Nightmares By The Sea   No One Must Find You Here   Opened Once   Ozark Melody   Parchman Farm   Parlez Moi D'amour   People's Parties   Phantasmagoria In Two   Please Send Me Someone to Love   Radio   Rock Me Baby   Satisfied Mind   Satisfied Mind (Live)   Sefronia - The King's Chain   She Is Free   So Real   So Real [Live aus dem Südbahnhof, Frankfurt]   So Real [Live aus dem Südbahnhof, Frankfurt]   So Real [MTV, 120 Minutes, New York]   Song To No One   Songs To No One   Strange Fruit   Strawberry Street   Sweet Thing   That's All I Ask   The Boy With The Thorn in His Side   The Boy With the Thorn in His Side [The Smiths Cov...   The Man That Got Away   The Other Woman   The Sky Is A Landfill   The Twelfth Of Never (Live)   The Way Young Lovers Do   The Way Young Lovers Do (Live From The Bataclan)   Thief Without The Take   Thousand Fold   Thousand Fold (Bonus Non-Album Track)   Three Is A Magic Number   Ulalume   Unforgiven (Last Goodbye) [Live]   Vancouver   We All Fall in Love Sometimes   What Will You Say   What Will You Say [Live aus dem Südbahnhof, Fra...   What Will You Say [Live aus dem Südbahnhof, Fra...   What Will You Say?   Wild Is The Wind   Will The Circle Be Unbroken   Witches' Rave   Woke Up In A Strange Place   Woke Up In A Strange Place (Live)   Yard Of Blonde Girls   Yeh Jo Halka Halka   You & I   You & I   Your Flesh Is So Nice

Related Songs

  Once I Was - Judy Collins  Once I Was - Kelli O'Hara  Once I Was - Cowboy Junkies  Who I Once Was - Kingdom of Giants  I Once Was Gold - Pickering Pick  Once I Was Pretty - The Mary Onettes  Once I Was Air - Troy M.  Once I Was Loved - Melody Gardot  What Once Was - 3 Mile Scream  Once Was One - Portugal. The Man  Once Was Lost - Old Bear Mountain  Once Was Love - Ingrid Michaelson  From Once Was - Deliverance  The One I Once Was - Mortemia  Once I was a Lady - Lucky Fonz Iii  Once I Was the Keeper - Tokyo Police Club  I Was Once a Horse - Puzzle Muteson  Once I was like you - Firefox Ak  From What I Once Was - Neverending White Lights  Once When I Was Little - James Morrison  Once I Was In Love - Neil Young  Once When I Was Little - James Morrison  Once, When I Was Little - James Morrison  I Was Young Once Too - ALABAMA  Once I Was a Runner - Brendan Canning  Cradle Hill - Once  Ode to a Broken Heart - Once  The Only Way To Say (I Think I'm Falling In L...  I'm Tired Of Being Pushed Around - Once  Dealova - Once  Aku Mau - Once  Once I Was a Lion Tamer - Mark Lenover  Once Was a Time I Thought - The Mamas & The Papas  As Good As I Once Was - Toby Keith  The Man That I Once Was - Al Soucy  I Was Once A Loyal Lover - Death Cab For Cutie  Once Was a Time I Thought...  I Was a Young Man Once - Bobby Bare  Once I Was 7 Years Old - Ben Schuller  Once It Was Ours! - Moonspell  Where Shade Once Was - Agalloch  Once Was A Rose - Farse  Once There Was You - Earl T & The Tattered Hearts   Once Was a Gambler - Lightnin' \rHopkins  Chapped Lips - I Wish I Was Lightning  heartbeat - I Wish I Was Lightning  stop stuttering - I Wish I Was Lightning  Tears Are Falling - Was  I Ain't As Good As I Once Was - Toby Keith  She Once Said I Was A Romantic...  Once I Was A Serene Teenaged Child...  Once I Was 7 Years Old (Remix) - Ben Schuller  That I Was Once By Your Side - Toy  Wheel Me Out - Was Not Was  Shadow & Jimmy - Was (Not Was)  Baby I Need Your Loving - Was (Not Was)  11 MPH [Abe Zapp Ruder Version] - Was (Not Was)  (Return to the Valley of) Out Come the Freaks...  What Up, Dog? - Was (Not Was)  Maria Navarro - Was (Not Was)  Shake Your Head - Was (Not Was)  Wheel Me Out - Was (Not Was)  In K Mart Wardrobe - Was (Not Was)  Walk the Dinosaur - Was Not Was  I Feel Better Than James Brown - Was Not Was  Christmas Time in Motor City - Was (Not Was)  Papa Was a Rolling Stone [Instrumental]...  I Blew Up The United States - Was (not Was)  How The Heart Behaves - Was (not Was)  Hello Operator (Short Version) - Was (Not Was)  Earth To Doris - Was (not Was)  Dressed To Be Killed - Was (Not Was)  Just Another Couple Broken Hearts - Was (not Was)  In K-Mart Wardrobe - Was (not Was)  Love Can Be Bad Luck - Was (not Was)  Knocked Down, Made Small (Treated Like A Rubber Ba...  Maria Novarro - Was (not Was)  Man Vs. The Empire Brain Building - Was (not Was)  Walk The Dinosaur - Was (not Was)  Anything Can Happen - Was (not Was)  I Feel Better Than James Brown - Was (not Was)  Betrayal - Was (not Was)  Are You Okay? - Was (not Was)  Anytime Lisa - Was (not Was)  Professor Night - Was (not Was)  Papa Was A Rolling Stone - Was (not Was)  Out Come The Freaks - Was (not Was)  Zaz Turned Blue - Was (not Was)  Shadow & Jimmy - Was (not Was)  Robot Girl - Was (not Was)  What Up Dog? - Was (not Was)  Spy In The House Of Love - Was (not Was)  Smile - Was (not Was)  Wedding Vows In Vegas - Was (not Was)  The Party Broke Up - Was (not Was)  You! You! You! - Was (not Was)  Wheel Me Out (Long Version) - Was (Not Was)  Oh, Mr. Friction - Was (Not Was)  Out Come the Freaks (Again) [*] - Was (Not Was)  (Return to the Valley Of) Out Come the Freaks [Sem...  Where Did Your Heart Go? - Was (Not Was)  Carry Me Back to Old Morocco - Was (Not Was)  Go...Now! - Was (Not Was)  Christmas Time in Motor City [*] - Was (Not Was)  Out Come the Freaks [Original Version]...  Elvis' Rolls Royce - Was (not Was)  I Can't Turn You Loose - Was (Not Was)  Somewhere In America There's A Street Named A...  Boy's Gone Crazy - Was (not Was)  Shake Your Head (Let's Go To Bed)...  Dad, I'm In Jail - Was (not Was)  Just Another Couple Broken Hearts - Was Not Was  Are You Okay? - Was Not Was  Knocked Down, Made Small - Was Not Was  Maria Novarro - Was Not Was  How The Heart Behaves - Was Not Was  Wheel Me Out (Long Version) - Was Not Was  I Blew Up The United States - Was Not Was  In K Mart Wardrobe - Was Not Was  Hello Operator (Short Version) - Was Not Was  Dressed To Be Killed - Was Not Was  Oh Telephone Wires - When I Was 12  Explicit Content - When I Was 12  S is for Subway - When I Was 12  Make Believe Hearts - When I Was 12  Hillcrest - I Was a Hero  Pink Squares - I Was Cub Scout  Ice Cream Trucks - When I Was 12  Leaving Scars - I Was a Hero  Bus Rides Cost Too Much - I Was a Hero  Frozen Disease - I Was A King  Procrastinate Song - I Was A King  Fire (Toast To Life) - I Was A King  I Was - Neal McCoy  I Was - Neal McCoy  Was I - Madeleine Peyroux  Was I? - Madeleine Peyroux  I Was - Florist   I Was... - Icky Boyfriends  Once There Was a Time - Ten Years After  Once There Was A Girl - Deckard  This Once Was an Island - Trembling Blue Stars  Our Earth Was Once Green - Runrig  Once There Was A Hushpuppy...  It Once Was My Life - Van Morrison  What Once Was A River - Gaither Vocal Band  Once There Was a King - Kay Crawford  There Once Was a Pirate - Spring Awakening  Once There Was A Way - Beatles  Once There Was A Wintertime...  When Love Once Was Beautiful - Jed Madela  I Once Heard - Jon Swift  Once I Loved - Damien Rice  Once I Arrive - aKING  Once I Flew - White Town  I Blinked Once - Steve Forbert  Once I Cry - Uniform Choice  Once I Loved - Gene Nery  Once I Loved - Astrud Gilberto  Once I Loved - Dianne Reeves  Once I Had - The Magic Numbers  Once I Loved - Perry Como  Once I Loved - Frank Sinatra  Once I Tried - Kitty Wells  Once I Believed - Joe Derise  I Remember Once - Gilbert O'Sullivan  I Once Loved - The Corries  Once I Loved - Ella Fitzgerald  Once I Loved - Mina  Once I Believed - Mekong Delta  I Was Once Possible, Maybe, Perhaps A King...  I Was In Love With A Girl Once - Bradley Hathaway  I once was lost but now am profound...  I Once Was Lost But Am Now Profound...  I Was Lost, I Was Drifting - Tony Bennett  The There Once Was a Man - John Raitt  The There Once Was a Man [#][*] - John Raitt  The There Once Was a Man - Doris Day  Jesus Was Once a Teanager Too - Rheostatics  This Empty Room Once Was Alive - Knifeworld  The Night That Once Was Mine - Jack Bruce  The Absolution Of What Once Was - Autumn Tears  Once - Mecca Normal  Once - Reuben  Once - Van Halen  Once - Sleepin Pillow  Once - Blackfield  Once - OSI  Once - The Swell Season  Once - The Break Mission  Once - Kitty Wells  Once - Stan Getz  Once - Billy Eckstine  Once - Joanie Sommers  Once - Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová  Once - Caleb Kane  Once - Alex Lloyd  Once - Sophie Zelmani  Once - Work In Progress  Once - Richard Buckner
  Please consider supporting this site by Clicking Here and Bookmarking whenever you search and shop Amazon. It costs you nothing but it supports us and gives us credit and we appreciate it greatly.