Darren Criss – Once Upon A Time (Guitar)

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Premiered at 2013 Listen Up! Summer Tour VERSE
C                                 Dm
'The End' never seemed like it was good enough

F                            C
Two little words seemed too small

C                           Dm
I turned the page to find a blank one

            F                                   C
As if the ones before never really happened at all
PRE-CHORUS
Am                                         Em
But what about the love, what about the old obsessions

F                  G            E
We fell into when they were new

Am                                     Em
What about the late at night heartfelt confessions

 F
The things we tried, the tears we cried

           G
Well they seem to hide away
CHORUS
C                                              
I've got one more part for the story book

F
One more road that I should've took

Am                     G             C
One more thing that used to hide my heart

C
I've got one more place in my memory

F
Where I wish with every part of me

Am                   G             C
I could go back, go back to the start

             Am                                F
I know it's too far down and much too high to climb

                  Am
But why can't we bring it all back

    G                                 
To once upon a time
VERSE
C                             Dm
Here we are, standing at the finish line

       F                                C
And I swear, it's like we came a million miles

C                                  Dm                   F
And if I take one more step, I will forget the rivers we crossed

                          C
Our happy ending will be lost if we say goodbye
PRE-CHORUS
Am                                     Em
But what about the way our fable wasn't fiction

        F                    G        E
It was real to you, it was real to me

Am                               Em
So maybe our love was a lovely contradiction

Dm                       
We were never sure of what we were

         F                 G
But we knew we could never be
CHORUS
               C
And now I got one more part for the story book

F
One more road that I should've took

Am                     G             C
One more thing that used to hide my heart

C
I've got one more place in my memory

F
Where I wish with every part of me

Am                   G             C
I could go back, go back to the start

             Am                                F
I know it's too far down and much too high to climb

                  Am
But why can't we bring it all back

    G                                 
To once upon a time
SOLO C F Am-G C PRE-CHORUS
     Am                                    Em
But what about the way our fable wasn't fiction

        F                    G         E
It was real to you, it was real to me

    Am                                        Em
So what about the ups and downs and all the lessons

      F
The things we learned, the stones we turned

            G
Well that bridge has burned away
And now it's just...
C
One more part for the story book

F
One more road that I should've took

Am                   G                C
One more thing that used to hide my heart

                   Am                               F
Yeah I know it's too far down and much too high to climb

                           Am
Oh, I just wish we could bring it all back

          G            C
To that once upon a time
Na na na... C F Am-G C (same chords as chorus) OUTRO
C                   F
Back to the start, back to your heart

Am        G          C
To that once upon a time

C                   F
Back to the start, back to your heart

Am       G           C
To that once upon a time

             Am                                 F
I know it's too far down and much too high to climb

                           Am
Oh, I just wish we could bring it all back

          G            C
To that once upon a time