One Short Day Lyrics – Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande

Read the full One Short Day lyrics by Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel along with the music video, song credits, release information and other details about the song. If you enjoy Cynthia Erivo’s music, you can also explore I’m Not That Girl and What Is This Feeling?, two other songs by Cynthia Erivo.

One short day
If you only have, if you only have
One short day
One short day in the Emerald City
One short day in the Emerald City
One short day (One short day)
One short day (One short day)
In the Emerald City
Emerald City

One short day in the Emerald City
One short day full of so much to do
Every way that you look in the city
There’s something exquisite you’ll want to visit
Before the day’s through
There are buildings tall as Quoxwood trees

Dress salons
And libraries
Palaces
Museums
A hundred strong
There are wonders like I’ve never seen
It’s all grand
And it’s all green

I think we’ve found the place where we belong
I wanna be in this hoi polloi
So I’ll be back for good someday
To make my life and make my way
But for today, we’ll wander and enjoy

One short day in the Emerald City
One short day to have a lifetime of fun
One short day

And we’re warning the city

Now that we’re in here
You’ll know we’ve been here
Before we are done

Presenting the absolute factual story of our wonderful Wizard of Oz
Starring the Emerald City players
Long, long ago, long before we can recall
There lived here in Oz the magical wise ones

Oh, the magical wise ones
The wisest of them all
They will not live forever
That I can foresee
So let us set all of our magic
In a strange and secret language
In a book
The Grimmerie
The Grimmerie

But time ticked ever onward day by day
Oh
And all those who could read it passed away
Oh
‘Til one day, no one could
But, the wise ones left a prophecy
In Oz’s darkest hour
Though we cannot say when

There will come one with power
To read the Grimmerie-merie
And Oz, which had been sad and black
Once more will sing out joyous

Oh
Look!
A man in a balloon arriving from the sky
Maybe, he is here to fulfill the prophecy
But can he read the Grimmerie?
This man who comes out of the blue
Is he the prophecy?
There’s one way we’ll know if it’s true
Fetch the Grimmerie (The Grimmerie)

Omaha
Omaha
He can read it
He must be
A Wizard

The prophecy fulfilled
What merriness he’ll bring
Now every Ozian raise a voice and sing
And sing and sing

Who’s the mage
Whose major itinerary is making all Oz merrier?
Who’s the sage
Who’s sagely sailed in to save our posteriors?
Whose enthuse for hot air ballooning
Has all of Oz honeymooning?
Woo-ooh-ooh
Wizn’t he wonderful?
Our wonderful Wizard

One short day in the Emerald City
Who’s the mage
Whose major itinerary is making all Oz merrier?
One short day to have a lifetime of fun
Who’s the sage
Who’s sagely sailed in to save our posteriors?
What a way to be seeing the city

Where so many roam to
We’ll call it home, too
And then, just like now, we can say
We’re just two friends

Two good friends
Two best friends
Sharing one wonderful
One short
The Wizard will see you now
Day