Only Once - Tom Jones

When I was very young and life was new

My world was always full of dreams

Growing old was far away

Though tomorrow’s yesterday

Nothing is the way it seems

I knew that one day I would fall in love

The way young people always do

How could I know what lay ahead

Life played games with me instead

Didn’t count on meeting you

Only once, I always thought that love came only once

That when you fell, you fell in love to stay

Then all at once I realized it isn’t so

That love can come and love can go

It happens every day

She was mine

With her I found a world that wouldn’t end

Or so I thought right up until today

Now all at once

I looked across and saw you there

And suddenly I knew

Nothing I could do would make me look away

Now all at once

I looked across and saw you there

And suddenly I knew

Nothing I could do would make me look away

Now all at once

I looked across and saw you there

And suddenly I knew

Nothing I could do would make me look away