Disney Wiki
Don't have an account?
Register
Register
Disney Wiki
The Wonderful World of Disney
52,205
pages
in: Songs, Articles with Wikipedia content, The Hunchback of Notre Dame songs,
and 5 more

Changes: Someday

Back to page
Sign in to edit
m (Fixing links)
mNo edit summary
Tag: Visual edit
(10 intermediate revisions by 7 users not shown)
Line 4: Line 4:
 
|composer = [[Alan Menken]]
  
|composer = [[Alan Menken]]
 
|lyrics_by = [[Stephen Schwartz]]
  
|lyrics_by = [[Stephen Schwartz]]
−
|singer = [[Esmeralda]], [[Phoebus]]<br>All-4-One (USA)<br>Eternal (International)
 +
|singer = [[Esmeralda]], [[Phoebus]]<br>All-4-One (USA)<br>Eternal (Europe)
 
|films = ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''
  
|films = ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''
  +
|attractions = ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (musical)]]''
 
|albums = ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (soundtrack)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''<br>''[[Disney's Greatest Love Songs]]''
  
|albums = ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (soundtrack)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''<br>''[[Disney's Greatest Love Songs]]''
 
|preceded_by = "[[Into the Sunlight]]" (film)<br>"[[Made of Stone]]" (German musical)<br>"Sanctuary (Reprise)" (North American musical)
  
|preceded_by = "[[Into the Sunlight]]" (film)<br>"[[Made of Stone]]" (German musical)<br>"Sanctuary (Reprise)" (North American musical)
−
|followed_by = "Finale Ultimo" (German musical)<br>"[[While the City Slumbered]]" (North American musical)}}'''''Someday''''' is the ending 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 de Paris|Notre Dame]] cathedral. While not used in the body of the film, "Someday" is heard over the closing credits of the film.
 +
|followed_by = "Finale Ultimo" (German musical)<br>"[[While the City Slumbered]]" (North American musical)}}'''''Someday''''' is the ending song from [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|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 de Paris|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 [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (soundtrack)|film's soundtrack]] in 1996, "Someday" was recorded by all–male R&B band [[Wikipedia:All-4-One|All-4-One]] for the North American release, while British R&B trio [[Wikipedia:Eternal (band)|Eternal]] recorded their own version for the British English version of the song which received international release throughout Europe and Oceania. Mexican singer [[Wikipedia:Luis Miguel|Luis Miguel]] recorded a [[Spain|Spanish]] version for the Latin American market, retitled "'''Sueña'''", which became a major hit. The youngest [[Wikipedia:Celtic Woman|Celtic Woman]] member [[Chloë Agnew]] covered this song for her solo album called ''Walking in the Air'' and her [[Wikipedia:Celtic Woman (album)|first Celtic Woman album]]. In the [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (musical)|German stage version]] it is called "Einmal", and it occurs after [[Claude Frollo|Frollo]] gives Esmeralda his ultimatum in jail of choosing him or death. 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 does not 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 peacefully 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's dying wish for the world.
 +
Selected as the lead single from the [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (soundtrack)|film's soundtrack]] in [[1996]], "Someday" was recorded by all–male R&B band [[Wikipedia:All-4-One|All-4-One]] for the North American release, while British R&B trio [[Wikipedia:Eternal (band)|Eternal]] recorded their own version for the British English version of the song which received international release throughout Europe and Oceania. Mexican singer [[Wikipedia:Luis Miguel|Luis Miguel]] recorded a [[Spain|Spanish]] version for the Latin American market, retitled "'''Sueña'''", which became a major hit. The youngest [[Wikipedia:Celtic Woman|Celtic Woman]] member [[Chloë Agnew]] covered this song for her solo album called ''Walking in the Air'' and her [[Wikipedia:Celtic Woman (album)|first Celtic Woman album]]. In the [[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (musical)|German stage version]] it is called "Einmal", and it occurs after [[Claude Frollo|Frollo]] gives Esmeralda his ultimatum in jail of choosing him or death. 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 does not 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 peacefully 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's dying wish for the world.
   
 
==Trivia==
  
==Trivia==
−
*A brief chorus of the song is heard after "[[Humiliation]]" when [[Esmeralda]] apologizes to [[Quasimodo]] and stops the torturing at the festival of fools by helping him as she frees him from his restraints and openly defies [[Frollo]] and states that he is the biggest fool of them all as she throws a crown at him that the hunchback was wearing a few moments ago.
 +
*A brief chorus of the song is heard after "[[Humiliation]]" when [[Esmeralda]] apologizes to [[Quasimodo]] and stops the torturing at the Festival of Fools by helping him as she frees him from his restraints and openly defies [[Frollo]] and states that he is the biggest fool of all as she throws the King of Fool's crown at him that Quasimodo wore a few moments ago.
   
 
==Lyrics==
  
==Lyrics==
Line 23: Line 24:
 
When the world's older
  
When the world's older
 
When we have learned
  
When we have learned
−
I pray
 +
I pray
 
Someday we may yet live
  
Someday we may yet live
 
To live
 
To live
Line 40: Line 41:
 
Someday
  
Someday
 
Our fight will be won then
  
Our fight will be won then
−
We'll stand in the sun then
 +
We'll stand in the sun in
 
That bright afternoon
  
That bright afternoon
 
Till then
  
Till then
Line 46: Line 47:
 
We'll hang on
  
We'll hang on
 
And we'll wish upon the moon
  
And we'll wish upon the moon
  +
Whoa-oh
   
 
There are some days, dark and dreary (dark and dreary)
  
There are some days, dark and dreary (dark and dreary)
−
Seems we haven't got a prayer (haven't got a prayer)
 +
Seems we haven't got a prayer (haven't we got a prayer)
 
But a prayer for something better
  
But a prayer for something better
 
Is the one thing we all share
  
Is the one thing we all share
Line 233: Line 235:
 
'''Both:'''
  
'''Both:'''
 
Soon
  
Soon
  +
</poem>
  +
  +
|-|Donna Summer Version=
  +
<poem>
  +
There will come a time
  +
When love will rule all mankind
  +
  +
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
  +
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
  +
Wish upon the moon
  +
The moon
  +
  +
There are some days 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 is 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
  +
  +
One day, someday
  +
Soon
  +
Someday soon
  +
Someday soon
  +
Someday soon
  +
</poem>
 
</tabber>
  
</tabber>
   
Line 241: Line 309:
 
*Italian: ''Quando'' by Neri Per Caso
  
*Italian: ''Quando'' by Neri Per Caso
 
*Korean: ''Someday'' by Solid
  
*Korean: ''Someday'' by Solid
−
*Malay:
+
*Malay:
 
*Polish: ''Kiedyś'' by Mietek Szcześniak
  
*Polish: ''Kiedyś'' by Mietek Szcześniak
 
*Portuguese (Brazilian): ''Um Dia'' by Ed Motta
  
*Portuguese (Brazilian): ''Um Dia'' by Ed Motta
−
*Portuguese (Portuguese): ''Sonho de Amor'' by Miguel Ángelo
+
*Portuguese (Portuguese): ''Sonho de Amor'' by Miguel Ángelo
−
*Slovak:
+
*Slovak:
 
*Spanish: ''Sueña'' by Luiz Miguel
  
*Spanish: ''Sueña'' by Luiz Miguel
 
*Turkish:
  
*Turkish:
Line 264: Line 332:
 
Eternal - Someday
  
Eternal - Someday
 
Chloë Agnew - Someday
  
Chloë Agnew - Someday
  +
Someday
 
</gallery>
  
</gallery>
   
Line 270: Line 339:
 
[[Category:The Hunchback of Notre Dame songs]]
  
[[Category:The Hunchback of Notre Dame songs]]
 
[[Category:Deleted songs]]
  
[[Category:Deleted songs]]
  +
−
[[Category:Sad songs]]
  
 
[[Category:Songs]]
  
[[Category:Songs]]
 
[[Category:Hero/Heroine songs]]
  
[[Category:Hero/Heroine songs]]

Revision as of 15:36, 30 October 2019

Someday is the ending 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 band 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", and it occurs after Frollo gives Esmeralda his ultimatum in jail of choosing him or death. 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 does not 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 peacefully 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's dying wish for the world.

Trivia

  • A brief chorus of the song is heard after "Humiliation" when Esmeralda apologizes to Quasimodo and stops the torturing at the Festival of Fools by helping him as she frees him from his restraints and openly defies Frollo and states that he is the biggest fool of all as she throws the King of Fool's crown at him that Quasimodo wore a few moments ago.

Lyrics

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 in
That bright afternoon
Till then
On days when the sun is gone
We'll hang on
And we'll wish upon the moon
Whoa-oh

There are some days, dark and dreary (dark and dreary)
Seems we haven't got a prayer (haven't we got a prayer)
But a prayer for something better
Is the one thing we all share

Someday
When we are wiser (When we are wiser)
When the world's older (When the world is older)
When we have love (When we have love)
I pray
Someday we may yet live (Let live)
To live, to live, to live, to live
And let live

Someday
Life will be fairer (Life will be fairer)
Need will be rarer (Need will be rarer)
And greed wil not pay (No, no, no)
Godspeed
This bright millennium
Let it come
Wish upon the moon

One day, someday...

Soon

Oooh...

One day, someday...

Soon

Esmeralda:
I used to believe
In the days I was naïve
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

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

Esmeralda & Phoebus:
Is the one thing we all share

Chorus:
We all share
We all share

All:
We all share...
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
Hope lives on
Wish upon the moon
Change will come

Phoebus:
One day...

Chorus:
Someday...

Esmeralda:
Soon

Esmeralda:
I used to believe
In the days I was naïve
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

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

Phoebus:
Life will be fairer

Esmeralda:
Need will be rarer

Phoebus:
Need will be rarer

Esmeralda:
Greed will not pay

Phoebus:
Greed will not pay

Esmeralda:
Godspeed

Phoebus:
Godspeed

Esmeralda:
This bright millennium

Phoebus:
This bright millennium

Esmeralda:
On its way

Both:
Let it come

Phoebus:
Someday

When the world's older
When things have changed

Both:
Someday
These dreams will all be real
'Till then we'll
Wish upon the moon

Change will come

Phoebus:
One day...

Esmeralda:
Some day...

Both:
Soon

There will come a time
When love will rule all mankind

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
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
Wish upon the moon
The moon

There are some days 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 is 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

One day, someday
Soon
Someday soon
Someday soon
Someday soon

Other Languages

  • Chinese: Yitian by Alex To
  • French: Un Jour by Ophelie Winter
  • Greek: Otan by Sakis Rouvas
  • Italian: Quando by Neri Per Caso
  • Korean: Someday by Solid
  • Malay:
  • Polish: Kiedyś by Mietek Szcześniak
  • Portuguese (Brazilian): Um Dia by Ed Motta
  • Portuguese (Portuguese): Sonho de Amor by Miguel Ángelo
  • Slovak:
  • Spanish: Sueña by Luiz Miguel
  • Turkish:

Album Covers

Videos

Wikipedia
 This page uses content from the English Wikipedia page Someday (The Hunchback of Notre Dame song). The list of authors can be seen in the page history. Text from Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.


v - e - d
The-hunchback-of-notre-dame-logo
Media
Films: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (video/soundtrack/Studio Cast Recording) • The Hunchback of Notre Dame II • Hunchback

Television: House of Mouse • Esmeralda
Video Games: The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Topsy Turvy Games • Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance • Disney Sorcerer's Arena

Disney Parks
Disney Animation Building

Entertainment: Disney Classics: The Music & The Magic • One Man's Dream II: The Magic Lives On • Mickey's Gift of Dreams • The Golden Mickeys • The Hunchback of Notre Dame: A Musical Adventure
Restaurants: Clopin's Festival of Foods
Parades: Disney's Party Express • The Hunchback of Notre Dame Topsy Turvy Cavalcade
Fireworks: Believe... There's Magic in the Stars • Disney Dreams! • Happily Ever After • Harmonious • Momentous • World of Color • Wonderful World of Animation • Wondrous Journeys
Spring: Disney's Easter Wonderland
Summer: Stitch and Friends Summer Surprise
Halloween: Frightfully Fun Parade • Happy Hallowishes • It's Good to be Bad with the Disney Villains • Kooky Spooky Halloween Night • Re-Villains! Halloween Parade • The Disney Villains Halloween Showtime • Villains Grove • Villains Mix and Mingle • Villains Night Out! Chapter 2
Christmas: A Christmas Fantasy Parade

Characters
Original: Quasimodo • Esmeralda • Claude Frollo • Phoebus • Victor, Hugo, and Laverne • Djali • Clopin • Archdeacon • Achilles • Brutish and Oafish Guards • Frollo's Soldiers • Old Prisoner • Quasimodo's Mother • Quasimodo's Father • Snowball

Sequel: Madellaine • Zephyr • Sarousch

Songs
Original: The Bells of Notre Dame • Out There • Topsy Turvy • Humiliation • God Help the Outcasts • The Bell Tower • Heaven's Light • Hellfire • Paris Burning • A Guy Like You • The Court of Miracles • Sanctuary • And He Shall Smite the Wicked • Into the Sunlight • Someday

Sequel: Le Jour D'Amour • An Ordinary Miracle • I'd Stick With You • Fa la la la Fallen In Love • I'm Gonna Love You
Musical: Balancing Act • Rest and Recreation • Rhythm of the Tambourine • Into Notre Dame • Top of the World • Thai Mol Piyas • Esmeralda • City Under Siege • Flight Into Egypt • Out of Love (Reprise) • Made of Stone • Finale Ultimo
Deleted Songs: In a Place of Miracles • As Long As There's a Moon • Someday

Locations
Paris • Notre Dame de Paris • Palace of Justice • Court of Miracles
Miscellaneous
Musical • Disney Sing Along Songs: Topsy Turvy • The Making of The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.
More Fandoms