Lyrics

“Once in a While”
Album – Homeward
by Maggie Vogts
Copyright 2016

Some mornings shine a bit warmer,
Smoothing the cares in my face.
Some days a quiet home brings ease,
Reminds me that I’ll be okay.

Sometimes I smile in the stillness,
Go back to my old dreaming ways.
Some days I almost forget the sting –
When you chose to push me away.

--ooh—

But once in a while I remember
The image so real, I can’t breathe.
The way that you’d smile ‘cross a crowded room,
The way your eyes lit up toward me.

And once in a while I still hear them,
The promises you swore you would keep.
Once in a while, I forget that I loved you.
Darling, do you ever think of me?

--ooh—

The walks that I loved, now they’re lonely,
‘cause you’re not there, striding by me.
My hand’s feeling empty, my heart’s frigid cold,
‘cause everything we knew is gone.

‘Cause once in a while I remember
The slow way you stopped loving me.
The coolness, the distance, they settled in,
Cruelty I’d never seen.

-musical break-

Somehow the days get so lonely,
Knowing your heart’s far away.
But each step I take to move on seems vain,
‘cause you fill my mind most days.

And once in a while I still wonder

Why I was so easy to leave.
I only conclude that it must have been you…
You.
-ooh—