There Once Was A Time

[Verse 1]
There once was a time when she couldn't pass a mirror
She had to take a look to see her hair was straight
That her makeup was in perfect shape
And they once said she had a face to wake the dead
Or at least she believed she remembered they had said
She was something they had never seen before

[Verse 2]
So what can have happened to havе turned her this way?
Creeping down the corridors, trying to hidе her face
Suffering some terrible disgrace
Avoiding the stares of the people passing by
Refusing to give to the curious wandering eyes
The pleasures of remembering the face they knew

[Verse 3]
For she had believed in the days when she was young
That her youth was eternal and never could become
A thing of which she had to be ashamed
Now her face was full of wrinkles and her hair an iron grey
Her youth was in the distant past, a long, long time away
She never guessed it could appear so far away

[Verse 4]
And there once was a time when she couldn't pass a mirror
She had to take a look to see her hair was straight
And that her makeup was in perfect shape
And they once said she had a face to wake the dead
Or at least she believed she remembered they had said
She was something they had never seen before