Ben Folds Presents: "Once Upon Another Time" by Sara Bareilles | DECLASSIFIED

Please Read at least the General meaning of this song before playing it. Note that I listened to this song several times before I decided that it was worthy of sharing it with all of you... Sara Bareilles is a songwriter, singer, composer and a Lyricist in her own right... I initially struggled with this song's meaning, so I looked it up... Here is what I found...

General Meaning:
"Sara Bareilles explained to American Songwriter magazine why she named the record after this song: "The title track is really about loss of your childhood," she said, "and letting go of your past, and that's a part of my life right now, a journey I feel like I'm on. It felt befitting to name the album that."

So to put it simply its about the transition from one part of your life to another. Remembering your childhood or past in general and letting it go because its in the past and change is inevitable. Sometimes we don't want to change or previous plans for our future change but change can be good just different."

More about Sara Bareillis' background:

"Bareilles, is a six-time Grammy®-nominated, platinum-selling, chart-topping musical artist, who also is a New York Times Best Selling author, and Tony®-nominated hit Broadway musical composer.

Conducted by Edwin Outwater, the program will featured some new orchestrations by two of the most sought-after arrangers of our generation: Rob Moose of yMusic and Bon Iver, who has played on multiple Grammy®-winning albums including Arcade Fire’s The Suburb, and Alex Lacamoire, whose orchestral work on Hamilton recently won him two Tony Awards®."

LYRICS:

"Once Upon Another Time" By Sara Bareillis

Once upon another time
Somebody's hands who felt like mine
Turned the key and took a drive
Was free
Highway curve, the sun sank low
Buckley on the radio
Cigarette was burning slow
So breathe

Just yellow lines and tire marks
And sun-kissed skin and handle bars
And where I stood was where I was to be

No enemies to call my own
No porch light on to pull me home
And where I was is beautiful
Because I was free

Once upon another time
Before I knew which life was mine
Before I left the child behind me
I saw myself in summer nights
And stars lit up like candle light
I make my wish but mostly I believed...

In yellow lines and tire marks
Sun-kissed skin and handle-bars
And where I stood was where I was to be

Once upon another time
Decided nothing good in dying
So I would just keep on driving
Because I was free

Writer(s): Sara Bareilles