I grew up believing in fairy tales.
Once upon a time...
We'd be out and about and seemed so happy together.
Everything was fine,

But you decided to go your way,
So I had to go mine...
You wanted someone who could give you
More than just his time and his rapture...

All I wanted was to be happily ever after.

' Never had much money, but I was such a rich man
Having you to spend the time of day.
Now the swings in the park are still swaying 
Long after the children have gone away.

Did a Knight in shining armor
On his white horse capture
All your fears and tears
And turn them somehow all into laughter?

Now I wonder to myself are you happily ever after.

So many times, so many times
I've tried so hard to forget the pain.
I'm getting tired, so tired of being lonely
And standing out in the rain.

So many times, so many times
I've tried so hard to forget the pain.
I'm getting tired, so tired of being lonely
And standing out in the rain.

I'm not much of a Knight in shining armor,
Maybe I don't have much money to my name,
But I've got alot of loving to give you baby,
If you could feel the same.

No, I don't believe much now
In fairy tales,
Only true loves' winds
Can set this heart to sails from disaster

To being happily ever after.

No, I don't care to amount
To so very much,
Don't want to be like
Knights and Kings and Princes and such,

All I ever really want to be when I grow up is happily ever after...
That's all I want to be...happily ever after.
All I ever really want to be when I grow up is happily ever after.