As a child, I'd sit by the window Wondering just where you were As a child, I'd wish on the brightest star Hoping you could hear me from afar I would write how I would fall in love With a stranger with stars in his eyes And how he'd take me into his arms And hold me in the moonlight Happily ever after was all I wanted to be To be carried away in a hero's arms Was all that I could dream Happily ever after was all I needed to be To take the hand, to call the name Of the man I love, my dream In a world where few dreams survive Where fairy tales are words that we read I have kept you safe inside my heart Till this moment right here, right now I looked into his eyes and saw All that I have ever wished for My heart is telling me it's a dream But a dream is all I wish for Happily ever after was all I wanted to be To take the hand, to call the name Of the man of my dreams Happily ever after was all I wanted to be To take the hand, to call the name Of the man of my dreams Look at me now, I'm dancing on a cloud With the world beneath me and the stars above This is so much more than I had dreamed of Happily ever after was all I wanted to be To be carried away in a hero's arms Was all that I could dream Happily ever after was all I needed to be To take the hand, to call the name Of the man of my dreams