• Once upon a time I was ten years old.

    I looked out night time’s window, I was very bold

    I wished upon a star for the clouds to come

    Turn the blistering heat to the winter’s cold

    And the very next day, I stepped outside

    When my pretty blue eyes opened up all wide

    My white petticoat was caught in the wind

    It picked me up, blew me as I breathed in

    The fresh summer’s air which I found so fair

    Flowery scents whirling through the air

    A child’s imagination floating everywhere

    Cardinals and sparrows sing without a care

    Why can’t life stay the same just like this forever?

    Why can’t life never change, stay like this forever?

    Painting pictures in my mind, while I’m blissfully blind

    Of all the world’s hurt, of the future, of time

    Can I stay in this place, floating through space

    With the stars and the planets in their celestial grace

    Can I crawl underground with the dirt and the worms

    And the ants and their queens in their kingdom so green

    Run away from the spider, who is oh so mean

    And never go back to my room to clean

    Why can’t life stay the same just like this forever?

    Why can’t life never change, stay like this forever?

    Singing with the stars during nights so cold

    Wishing for adventure, never coming home

    Drifting over mountains and their cold grey stone

    Watching over trees and their hard brown bone

    Once upon a time I was ten years old

    I wished upon a star on a night so cold

    As my mind grew foggy and my eyes fell closed

    And the very next day, as I awoke

    I ran down the stairs, to my mother I spoke

    I told her of my travels far beyond the sea

    And she told me, with slight pity it was but a dream.