I'll make it alone
When love is gone
Still you made your mark
Here in my heart

One day I'll fly away
Leave your love to yesterday
What more can your love do for me?
When will love be through with me?

I follow the night
Can't stand the light
When will I begin
My life again?

One day I'll fly away
Leave your love to yesterday
What more can your love do for me?
When will love be through with me?

Why live life from dream to dream?
And dread the day that dreaming ends?

One day I'll fly away
Leave your love to yesterday
What more can your love do for me?
When will love be through with me?

Why live life from dream to dream?
And dread the day that dreaming ends?

One day I'll fly away
Fly away

One day I'll fly away
Fly away

Fly away


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One Day I'll Fly Away Lyrics as written by Joseph Leslie Sample Will Jennings

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    Not sure if this is about leaving a partner or suicide

    Sunnyhillon August 08, 2011   Link
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    I think she's remembering an impossible love affair, and just wants to be free of the memories so she can move on. "why live life from dream to dream and dread the day that dreaming ends." This is one of my Husbands "memory songs" I discovered a whole load of these "miss you" songs a while back. He had an affair with someone he fell madly in love with, but because they were both married, it couldn't carry on, and now all he has left are these songs............ Oh, and me, the booby prize!!!!

    claddagh1956on January 03, 2013   Link
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    I think I know exactly what this song is about because I am experiencing it with my ex partner right now. She is telling herself that she will make it on her own eventually but is still in love and is struggling to let go at the moment but one day she will move on and get past the hurt (One day I'll fly away, Leave your love to yesterday).

    It's a wonderful song but makes me sad.

    philuk2000on July 06, 2013   Link

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