Someday

Someday is the end credit song from Disney's 1996 animated feature film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It was written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz and originally recorded by American singer and actress Heidi Mollenhauer in her film role as the singing voice of Esmeralda. One out of three recordings, along with "In a Place of Miracles" and "As Long As There's a Moon", it was discarded during the storyboarding process of the film and replaced with "God Help the Outcasts" as directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise both wanted a quieter song in scene when Esmeralda sings inside the Notre Dame cathedral. While not used in the body of the film, "Someday" is heard over the closing credits of the film.

Selected as the lead single from the film's soundtrack in 1996, "Someday" was recorded by all–male R&B group All-4-One for the North American release, while British R&B trio Eternal recorded their own version for the British English version of the song which received international release throughout Europe and Oceania. Mexican singer Luis Miguel recorded a Spanish version for the Latin American market, retitled "Sueña", which became a major hit. The youngest Celtic Woman member Chloë Agnew covered this song for her solo album called Walking in the Air and her first Celtic Woman album. In the German stage version it is called einmal, einmal occurs after Frollo gives Esmeralda his ultimatum in jail Esmeralda considers taking it if only to save Phoebus. Phoebus tells her she should do it for herself, so she can live. Esmeralda says she doesn’t consider a life with Frollo living. She then sings along with Phoebus and eventually with Clopin and the ensemble about how she hopes the world will learn after countless war and bloodshed to live and not to hate. Unlike Someday, Einmal’s lyrics are less soft and gentle. In Someday Esmeralda sings about the world becoming more mature and in Einmal she sings about the world learning after making a mistake. The song ends as Esmeralda is about to be put to death which makes this song all the more poignant and dramatic as Esmeralda dying wish for the world.

Lyrics
Movie Version= Someday When we are wiser When the world's older When we have learned I pray Someday we may yet live To live And let live

Someday Life will be fairer Need will be rarer And greed will not pay Godspeed This bright millennium On its way Let it come Someday

Someday Our fight will be won then We'll stand in the sun then That bright afternoon Till then On days when the sun is gone We'll hang on And we'll wish upon the moon

And someday dark and bitter Seems we haven't got a prayer But a prayer for something better Is the one thing we all share

Someday When we are wiser When the world's older When we have learned I pray Someday we may yet live To live And let live

Someday Life will be fairer Need will be rarer And greed wil not pay Godspeed This bright millennium Let it come Wish upon the moon

One day, someday...

Soon

One day, someday.....

Soon ESMERALDA I used to believe In the days I was naive That I'd live to see A day of justice dawn And though I will die Long before that morning comes I'll die while believing still It will come when I am gone
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Someday When we are wiser When the world's older When we have learned I pray Someday we may yet live To live and let live

ESMERALDA / PHOEBUS Someday Life will be fairer Need will be rarer Greed will not pay Godspeed This bright millennium On its way Let it come someday

CHORUS Someday When we are wiser When the world's older When we have learned I pray Someday we may yet live To live and let live

ESMERALDA There are some days Black and bitter It seems we haven't got a prayer

PHOEBUS But a prayer for something better

PHOEBUS / ESMERALDA Is the one thing we all share

CHORUS We all share We all share

ALL We all share... Someday Our fight will be one then We'll stand in the sun then That bright afternoon Till then On days when the sun is gone Hope lives on Wish upon the moon Change will come

PHOEBUS One day...

CHORUS Someday...

ESMERALDA Soon