Happenstance Dream (Looking Glass Dance) by Gloria Buono-Daly (c) 2025

*(Verse 1)*
Winds blew in, sky torn apart,

Shattered all, nowhere to start

Longing echoes no sound here,

World so silent, void and bare.  

*(Pre-Chorus)*

Each movement came strength, each hue a prayer,

She spun with her dream, weightless in air...

*(Chorus)*

She danced through silence, through looking glass,

Turned pains to beauty unsurpassed.

A butterfly risen, from heart so pure,

With every step, her soul found cure.

Couldn’t imagine what she’d been through,

But looking glass always knew.

Happenstance dream, looking glass dance, looking glass dance

Free at last… Moves with elegance, elegance, elegance…

*(Verse 2)*

She took what was broken, no way out,

Turned sorrow to color, erased all doubt.

Heart in her hand, dream in her eyes,

Tinted her world, she touched skies.

*(Chorus)*

She danced through silence, through looking glass,

Turned pains to beauty unsurpassed.

A butterfly risen, from heart so pure,

With every step, her soul found cure.

No one knew what she’d been through,

But looking glass always knew.

Happenstance dream, looking glass dance, looking glass dance

Free at last… Moves with elegance, elegance, elegance…

*(Bridge)*

Her hands had worked, her heart had grown,

Every challenge, she stood alone.

Now she rises, with fire and flame,

Crowned butterfly, stakes her claim.

Arms spread like butterfly wings, butterfly, butterfly, BUTTERFLYIII…

She flew the wind, reached the sky, reached the sky, SKYIII...

*(Outro )*

Then the glass faded, dream slipped away,

Woke from fantasy, she chose to stay.

Wings she’d earned, hers to keep,

We live through dreams, find our ways, we leap.

No need for praise, no grand debut,

She dances still—she made it through.

We all want to make it through—Make it through...

Arms spread like butterfly wings, butterfly, butterfly, BUTTERFLYIII…

reach the sky, reach the sky, SKYIII...

*(end of song)*