This is a rewrite of the famous “One Day More” song from les Miserables to reflect a Birthday
One Year More
One year more
Another year, another birthday’s here
This never-ending journey, let’s all cheer
Another year of memories we adore
One year more
You’ve lived another year today
How have you changed along the way?
One year more
As you turn a year older, we see
Yet with you, life’s a jubilee
One more year, and you have grown
Look how far you’ve come today
One more year, your path is known
And we celebrate you in every way
But the candles on your cake
As they flicker in the light
One more year of wishes to make
As we gather ’round tonight
Will you blow them out once more?
And make a wish you can’t ignore
The time is now, your day is here
One year more
One year more to cherish every moment
We’ll celebrate with love, and it’s so potent
We’ll share the cake and sing your name
As you light the candles, it’s not the same (one year more)
Watch the candles
as they gleam
Radiating birthday dreams
With friends and family,
we’ll beam
As we celebrate you,
it seems
One year more to grow and thrive In this life, you’ll always soar
One year more, let’s all high-five
As we celebrate you even more
With laughter, joy, and song
May your birthday be so bright
One more year to come along
With your loved ones by your side
Will you take a bow once more?
As we celebrate and explore
The time is now, your day is here
One year more
One year more, another year to treasure (another birthday’s here)
With love and joy, let’s find our pleasure
We’ll mark this day with smiles and glee (you’ve lived another year today)
As you turn a year older, we decree (how have you changed along the way?)
One more year,
a gift so grand
We’ll celebrate you, hand in hand
With hugs and wishes, you’ll understand It’s your day, the finest in the land
One more year, you’ll take a bow
And we’ll celebrate you now
With all our hearts, we’ll sing and cheer
One year more, it’s a joyous year!
One Day More
One day more
Another day, another destiny
This never-ending road to Calvary
These men who seem to know my crime
Will surely come a second time
One day more
I did not live until today
How can I live when we are parted?
One day more
Tomorrow you’ll be worlds away
And yet with you, my world has started
One more day all on my own
Will we ever meet again?
One more day with him not caring
I was born to be with you
What a life I might have known
And I swear I will be true
But he never saw me there
One more day before the storm
Do I follow where she goes?
At the barricades of freedom
Shall I join my brothers there?
When our ranks begin to form
Do I stay, and do I dare?
Will you take your place with me?
The time is now, the day is here
One day more
One day more to revolution
We will nip it in the bud
We’ll be ready for these schoolboys
They will wet themselves with blood (one day more)
Watch ’em run amok
Catch ’em as they fall
Never know your luck
When there’s a free for all
Here’s a little dip
There a little touch
Most of them are goners
So they won’t miss much
One day to a new beginning
Raise the flag of freedom high
Every man will be a king
Every man will be a king
There’s a new world for the winning
There’s a new world to be won
Do you hear the people sing?
My place is here, I fight with you
One day more
We will join these people’s heroes (I did not live until today)
We will follow where they go
We will learn their little secrets (how can I live when we are parted?)
We will know the things they know
One day more
Watch ’em run amok (tomorrow you’ll be worlds away)
Catch ’em as they fall
Never know your luck
When there’s a free-for-all
We’ll be ready for these schoolboys (and yet with you, my world has started)
Tomorrow we’ll be far away
Tomorrow is the judgment day
Tomorrow we’ll discover
What our God in Heaven has in store
One more dawn
One more day
One day more