Sarah Brightman -- Once in a lifetime

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Sarah Brightman - Once in a lifetime

Cuando anochezca
Te esperare
Quiero volverte loco esta noche
Con la luna llena
Te esperare
Hoy moriras entre mis brazos
Nunca soñaste algo igual

When the night falls
I will wait for you
I want to drive you crazy tonight
With the full moon
I will wait for you
Today you will die in my arms
You never dreamed about something like this

Let me dive in
To pools of sin
Wet black leather on my skin
Show me the floor
Lay down the law
I need to taste you more

Refrain:
Then I feel your sea
Raining down on me
Can this be my once in a lifetime
Hell's at heaven's door
As I need you more
You know you're my once in a lifetime

Todo tu cuerpo temblara
Pero esta vez, es realidad
Aunque el tiempo pase
Nunca, nunca lo olividaras
Sera
Solo una vez en tu vida

All your body will tremble
But this time it will be real
Though time passes by
You will never, never forget it
It will be
Only once in your lifetime

When you take me
And make me cry
Then I feel you satisfy
Show me the cage
It's all the rage
And lock it up

Found a part of me
That's a mystery
That will be just once in a lifetime
When the moon is high
Passion never dies
Will you want me for all a lifetime

Once in a lifetime
Once in a lifetime
Once in a lifetime

Giving you my soul
Letting you control
Took away a part of my lifetime
Memories of you
Left me black and blue
Now I know you're once in a lifetime

Refrain

Found a part of me
That's a mystery
That will be just once in a lifetime
When the moon is high
Passion never dies
Will you want me for all a lifetime

Refrain

Found a part of me
That's a mystery
That will be just once in a lifetime

Music: Peterson, Schwarz, Meissner
Lyrics: Peterson, Brightman

From: Dive (1993).
On the "rare tracks" CD of Fly II (2000) there are two slightly different versions (remixes) of this song.

Source of the lyrics: the CD-booklet, with thanks to Jeff.

The italics lines (which are in Spanish), more spoken than sung and very faint in the distance, do not appear in the CD-booklet.
Thanks to Gene Laycock and MacKenzie, Nilda, and Roberto Gonzalez I can give the Spanish lines as well as a translation in English shown above.

Original and other versions

The original version of "Once In A Lifetime" seems to be on the Gregorian album Sadisfaction (1991), with thanks to L. Parham, who pointed me to this page, which says:: Once In a Lifetime was first performed on this album,
before being interpreted by Sarah Brightman and Princessa.
That website also provides the lyrics, which I already provided here: the original version has rather different lyrics. It seems unlikely that this version of Gregorian was sung by Sarah.

Princessa performs "Once In A Lifetime" on her album I Won't Forget You" (1999) [thanks to Becky Wilson for this info].

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Original and other versions

last modified: 16 December 2006