ONLY ONCE
(Clive Westlake)


Tom Jones - 1969



When I was very young and life was new
My world was always full of dreams
Growing old was far away
No tomorrow, just today
Nothing is the way it seems

I knew that one day I would fall in love
The way young people always do
How could I know what lay ahead
Life played games with me instead
Didn't count on meeting you

Only once, I always thought that love came only once
That when you fell, you fell in love to stay
Now all at once I realize it isn't so
That love can come and love can go
It happens every day

She was mine, with her I found a world that couldn't end
Or so I thought right up until today
Then all at once I looked across and saw you there
And suddenly I knew nothing I could do
Would make me look away

(Instrumental Break)

Then all at once I looked across and saw you there
And suddenly I knew nothing I could do
Would make me look away

Then all at once I looked across and saw you there
And suddenly I knew nothing I could do
Would make me look away



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - May 2019)